That's it. Thanks !!!

ORIGINAL: Jose7822

I also applied a Cakewalk.ini file variable available to S7 users that makes the Toolbar even smoother:

DrawToolbarGradient=0

Write this under the [WinCake] section on top of the .ini file and save the changes. This variable gets rid of the background gradient found on the Global and Views toolbars making them blend nicely with the rest.

I started with that other brown one.

ORIGINAL: legobeats

ORIGINAL: stratcat33511

Can we Please get Onis' and MrPhils' color schemes up on the server MrChild ?
I like them both

Please ?

PLEASE!!!!!

BUMP

Paging MrPhil
Please send Rothchild your CLR files for upload
Thank You
THis has been a publicly service announcement
( and many thanks again Rothchild )

Dude, that is pretty sweet. But what's with all that extra space at the top of the console view? You should, like, move everything up so you can, say, oh, I don't know, make the effects bin bigger or something...

ORIGINAL: Ognis


Thanks everyone. The link to my file is on the previous page :)

I like yours a lot too, Ognis !

(Since I don't have the one from MrPhil yet)

Thanks

I prefer interfaces to be painfully unadorned, with almost no colors, no gradients, with bold dark text on light backgrounds. My eyesight isn't that great and all those fiddly pretty candy things make me tired after hours of staring.

After some tinkering, I've come up with palette I can tolerate:


I think I am overlooking some settings somewhere. I still can't figure out how to change certain buttons, although an earlier tip in this thread may help me banish the gradients. Any info on accomplishing the following?:

Is it possible?

[edited for deranged sentence structure]

RothChild,

Don't forget to include DoubleTWord's color scheme which I think looks pretty cool. Here's the picture:





And here's the file: http://www.mediafire.com/?2g3jvgit9xr


Thanks!

A bit of poking around has shown me how the dark murky buttons in SONAR 7 might be turned into light, simple buttons. Unfortunately, it won't be trivial.

I used RESOURCE HACKER to examine the EXE and DLL files installed with SONAR 7. All the images, including the buttons and splash screens and more, are contained in TTSRes16.dll. It's a big file, with hundreds of bitmaps, among other things. I was surprised to see that this file contained not only images for SONAR 7, but bitmaps with splash screens and interface elements for many different (such as LE) and older versions of SONAR and even what appears to be interface elements from CAKEWALK PRO AUDIO.

There are several sets of buttons that are closer to what I'd like to see in SONAR 7 - light grey with black icons. I assume they're from earlier versions of the program. How do I go about telling SONAR 7 to use these instead of its default?

Is there a secret cakewalk.ini setting that will compel SONAR to choose another set of button bitmaps from TTSRes16.dll?

I tried substituting my own altered, simplified button images into the dll file. Good news, it didn't prevent SONAR from starting and running. Bad news, the new image didn't appear in the interface. I notice many seemingly redundant sets of button images in the dll, so I must have missed the right slot into which to plug the modified image.

I have experience skinning WINAMP and AIMP, and it seems that skinning SONAR should be no more difficult. However, without the scheme or a skinning tool, I'm shooting in the dark here.

Any secret info or glaringly obvious resources I've overlooked that might assist me in this attempt to bend SONAR's interface to my own demented will?

ORIGINAL: JTANK

A bit of poking around has shown me how the dark murky buttons in SONAR 7 might be turned into light, simple buttons. Unfortunately, it won't be trivial.

I used RESOURCE HACKER to examine the EXE and DLL files installed with SONAR 7. All the images, including the buttons and splash screens and more, are contained in TTSRes16.dll. It's a big file, with hundreds of bitmaps, among other things. I was surprised to see that this file contained not only images for SONAR 7, but bitmaps with splash screens and interface elements for many different (such as LE) and older versions of SONAR and even what appears to be interface elements from CAKEWALK PRO AUDIO.

There are several sets of buttons that are closer to what I'd like to see in SONAR 7 - light grey with black icons. I assume they're from earlier versions of the program. How do I go about telling SONAR 7 to use these instead of its default?

Is there a secret cakewalk.ini setting that will compel SONAR to choose another set of button bitmaps from TTSRes16.dll?

I tried substituting my own altered, simplified button images into the dll file. Good news, it didn't prevent SONAR from starting and running. Bad news, the new image didn't appear in the interface. I notice many seemingly redundant sets of button images in the dll, so I must have missed the right slot into which to plug the modified image.

I have experience skinning WINAMP and AIMP, and it seems that skinning SONAR should be no more difficult. However, without the scheme or a skinning tool, I'm shooting in the dark here.

Any secret info or glaringly obvious resources I've overlooked that might assist me in this attempt to bend SONAR's interface to my own demented will?

I haven't gone as far as trying to change the buttons this way but it sounds like it should be doable. There are still a few things that one cannot change in Sonar using the Colors Command, or at least I haven't found a way to do them. Like the background color in the Console View...actually there's a bunch of stuff that's not costumizable in Console View...i.e. the background color for the EQ, Pan, etc. Also, I was wondering if anyone knows how to change the color of the little peak markers inside the meters (I don't know what to call them). I can provide a picture if you guys don't know what I'm talking about. Last but not least, and I've been trying to get an answer on this one for a long time, how to change the meters in Console View so that they're displayed like in the ACT video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUZsxLJwYSM&feature=related

I hate the look of the Console view meters, so if anyone (Robin Kelly?) knows how to do this please share .


Take care all!

ORIGINAL: kvr_fandango

ORIGINAL: Jose7822

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUZsxLJwYSM&feature=related

I hate the look of the Console view meters, so if anyone (Robin Kelly?) knows how to do this please share .


Take care all!

Jose, I'm pretty certain that's a video artifact (De-Moivre effect?) that happens when you resize something that has lots of horizontal lines to a smaller resolution and then use anti-aliasing and lossy compression.

Aaaaaaawwww! That sucks . I thought it made it look cool and was hoping to have mine look like that, oh well. Anyways, thanks for putting this mistery to rest. That totally makes sense.

Take care!

Hey I finally got round to creating and posting my own colour scheme, as you can see it takes it's lead from DonM's darkside and also from Jose's Logic schemes.



I just wish I could find out how to edit the MSR buttons so they are as dark as their background, also I can't work out how to make the trim and pan different colours in the console (not a big deal as I don't use it but for those who do, sorry!)

Enjoy
Child

For the "M" "S" "R" button, it's the 717, 731 and 739 in the Bitmap folder (opened with Ressource Hacker). I tried and it works, fun . The .bmp are 116, 120, 125.

JTANK - are you gonna have that nice bright color scheme uploaded to mr Rothchilds server soon ?
I really like that one as well

These are great, to change colors according to the mood you're in when working

Thanks All

Thanks JTANK !
Cant wait to see it on my monitors, late at night , with the lights down low
when nobody's watching .....