Yep, I love those oval faders. I lost em when I loaded on 8.3.1 and had to "repatch" em. Now...I've got my color scheme (It's called Cafe Latte...tres chic, or is that cheap?) but I haven't the foggiest how to get the "clr" file here. Help a brotha out, will ya?

I was messing around with my color scheme and found out I could use the Sherwin Williams Color Visualizer to create nice color groups for the audio and midi tracks. When you open the color visualizer on the Sherwin Williams website you can click on a color and and see it's red, green, and blue properties in numerical form. It just so happens that these figures create almost an identicle color in Sonar when entered in the custom color appet. I thought that was pretty cool and came up with a color palette I like and feel is not a strain on my eyes. Also I painted my house using Sherwin Williams pain so if I really wanted to geek out I could match the color palate in Sonar to the color palette of my home's interior. However, I chose to refrain from such an indulgence.

You can find the Sherwin Williams Color Visualilzer here:
http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/

I like Earthy tones for my colors. I also like to make it clear and easy to see track name and track number information. Most of the default color schemes in Sonar do not do a good job of keeping the basic aspects of the screen reasonable. Here are some screen shots of my first attempt at using the Sherwin Williams colors:

Download the Schemes HERE


Track View - Earth Tones



Console View



Track View - Shades of Blue

CHILD YOU ARE THE MAN

Thank you for what you do.

I just got 2 26" Visio High-def monitors and thought you all might get a kick out of the concept- I'll try to post some photos etc but i highly recommend dual mode large monitors! 26" isn't huge but it seems pretty practical when you're sitting in front of it. The glass-face Visio's are pretty nice, too.

hope I can figure out how to post photos in any way...

http://sonartemplates.googlepages.com/EvSonarColorsNew.JPG/EvSonarColorsNew-full.JPG

Yea, I got your message Rothchild and I've forwarded both a couple of screen shots and the "clr" file to you for the site. For anyone interested (it's called Cafe Latte...very easy on the eyes) it will be at http://sonartemplates.googlepages.com/home

Hi all

Jon Con's 'Dark London' colour scheme now available for download at: http://sonartemplates.googlepages.com/darktemplates

Thanks for getting in touch Jon.

Cheers
Child

Many thanks Eric.

I've added all of your schemes to the sonartemplates site.

Cheers
Child

You've got to have the file in the Sonar directory before you run it. Check back over this thread and you'll find the exact instructions.

Hansenhaus - your schemes rock...

ORIGINAL: vespesian

Hansenhaus - your schemes rock...

+10
Love them!

Thanks Eric.

Mike

Hi Buddy,
I am most impressed with your rounded faders UI tweak. If only Cakewalk would employ a graphics guy like yourself to overhaul the whole look.
How do you do the hacking of the dll? Is it too complex for us amateurs to do or does it require a heap of stuff?

Finally. I cannot install the 8.3 hack as this doesn't run on 8.3.1. Will you be updating your hack at all. Keep up the good work

Chris

Hi Chris, thanks for the kind words! check my signature for the latest version of the faders (just make sure to download the correct 32-bit or 64-bit version...depending on which version of Sonar you have installed)

I use Restorator 2007, although it's over 3 years old, it's one of the best if not the best resource editing program out there. You need a graphics creation program like Gimp (free) or photoshop (which is quite expensive if you're not a dedicated designer)...so gimp is probably the best way to go and is updated regularly. Using Restorator, you need to find the UI files you would like to alter, export them (as *.bmp) and then change them to what you wish. All of these graphics have set dimensions that can't be altered (from a designers POV), so its important not to change any sizes as they are hard-coded into the program. save the final design changes with gimp, etc as a bmp and use restorator to replace the images in the original file. that's the basis of it, hope it helps.

Thanks Buddy

I am going to start a search for Restorator 2007 as soon as this is sent. I have P'shop so I can get cracking. Thanks for sharing this information.

Best
Chris

So I was messing with a resource editor and I got the "slider" for the console to replace, but it has the gray box around it. Since I can't assign a png as a resource with a transparent background where that box is and bmp doesn't support transparency, how do you go about replacing these things?

I would guess alree or buddy can pretty easily answer this one.

I did that - used a sample of the color from several different programs. Tried exporting with 256 color and 24bit color. Is 32bit required? I'm using both Xara Xtreme nd Paint Shop Pro as my apps and neither one seems to be exporting the right thing here.