PRV velocity color (resolved)

I've always liked that feature, if you're talking about the color intensity of the note bar varying in the PRV.

I decided to bump this because I'm obviously missing something here or I would find other threads on my issue.
I can see this wouldn't be a problem (and be a nice feature) when working with a single track but how do you guys work with several tracks at a time (ie a strings arrangement)?
Is my only solution to make all the strings very different colors so that I can see one track as different shades of that particular color?
If I need to see the changes in velocities of an instrument I look at the controller pane (and usually draw in those changes in the controller lane).
So I guess my question is, how do you guys work with multiple tracks in PRV...otherwise is there no way I can turn off this feature?
Thanks for your patience,
Randy

Interesting...a feature request to get rid of a feature : )
Well thanks for the suggestion Jlien I'll do that but in the meantime I would think there is a workaround (surely others work with large dynamic ranges)...if not I suppose I'll just continue to pick a very opposite color when working on a line.
Thanks very much for your input Jlien,
Randy

brundlefly
Set PRVColorizeVelocity=0 under Preferences > Files > Initialization File (goes in in the [WinCake] section of Cakewalk.ini).

Thanks for posting this, brundlefly. 
 
 
 
(Why didn't you chime in sooner? )

brundlefly
It's worth going through the Initialization File section of the Reference Guide to see what else you might want to adjust.

 
Tried that twice in the past and gave up on both occasions (it was a little too difficult for me but I'll try it once again in the near future). Wish Cakewalk had the right to make the Japanese version of Sonar manuals available from their site.

brundlefly
Set PRVColorizeVelocity=0 under Preferences > Files > Initialization File (goes in in the [WinCake] section of Cakewalk.ini).

Wow thank you brundlefly!
Unfortunately I need a little elaboration though...in that path I'm seeing an option box and a value box.
Would I type in "PRVColorizeVelocity" into the option box and 0 in the value box? 
I hate to sound like an idiot here but I really don't want to screw things up even more.
Thanks again,
Randy

stickman393

g_randybrown
I just set up a template for all strings (violin, viola, cello and bass).
The colors are all shades of blue (light blue being violin down to dark blue being bass).
Working on a string arrangement and bringing the velocity of say a violin up to a certain point makes the color exactly the same as say the viola (not the intensity of it's color but the color itself changes) to where they are the same color.
Are we talking about the same thing?
 

Yes, we are. It is for this exact reason that I use the following color coding for my string quartet arrangements:
1st violin = Gold
2nd violin = Green
Viola = Blue
Cello = Violet
Bass = Brown
 
I would never use the same color for these - how the heck do you distinguish them? OK, I understand your complaint about the Velocity/color tinting, but you are doing things the hard way.
 
As others have said, you can disable the color/velocity relationship, but to me it is much more useful to have different hues per instrument and leverage the velocity color fade.

Well my "clever" idea was to have them all different hues of the same color (lighter being high frequencies and darker being lower) so that I could easily see what was strings in a crowded PRV.
Before this I was setting the colors randomly and so my issue wasn't too noticeable but I may just copy your color scheme and commit it to memory.

I've just tried PRVColorizeVelocity=0 but the note colors look a little too light overall for me so I think I'm going to keep using the default setting.

brundlefly
Set PRVColorizeVelocity=0 under Preferences > Files > Initialization File (goes in in the [WinCake] section of Cakewalk.ini).

That's great.  Colour consistency in PRV is something that I've been missing since Sonar 6.