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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/04/24 11:55:20 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: evansmalley

I would like the waveform colours to be assignable that way as well.


you probably know, but if you right click on a clip you can change clip colors quickly in "clip properties"

Indeed, but it'd be even quicker if you could do that right from the main menu. I know, I know... one click who cares? But if you do it 40 times a session or something it can add up.

It'd be cool if you could grab a selection group, or any group of clips and do it all at once. Is that possible now??
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/04/24 21:27:05 (permalink)
As promised here's a screenshot of what my Sonar looks like: sonabase


Looks great! Can you post the clr file for download?
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/04/25 07:10:34 (permalink)
Looks great! Can you post the clr file for download?

See my post, I've added the links.

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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/04/27 09:36:26 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: legobeats

Looks great! Can you post the clr file for download?

See my post, I've added the links.



Can't you just add YOUR clr file. You created an awesome scheme, I like to give it a spin!
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/04/27 20:11:50 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: legobeats

Looks great! Can you post the clr file for download?

See my post, I've added the links.


Is this the link?

Buddy's Color scheme goobase
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/04/28 16:42:37 (permalink)
You sound just like me. lol

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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/04/29 01:12:48 (permalink)
hey guys,

it IS the goobase scheme! Please read the post carefully It's a combination of Buddy's scheme and rounded faders and the windows theme Royale Remixed:


As promised here's a screenshot of what my Sonar looks like: sonabase

Edit to gather what I used:
Windows Theme Royale Remixed
Buddy's Color scheme goobase
Buddy's Rounded Faders for Sonar 8 and WinXP 32bit


Best!
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/04/30 22:43:03 (permalink)
Ok... Well, I don't think I'm very good at this for the moment, but I tried to make a color scheme that's based on Rapture. If someone does a better version or improves on it, I'd be very grateful.

Like I said, I can't really vouch for how good it is. So, I guess it's a version 1.



Download: Rapture Version One
post edited by candlesayshi - 2009/05/01 02:37:09


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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/01 14:21:15 (permalink)
wow...that's nice...

You're in an amazing state.

So stay there.
 

 
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/04 12:52:49 (permalink)
ORIGINAL: stickman393

I try and come up with a new color scheme each version, but I'm liking my current 8.3 scheme a lot, perhaps I'll stay with it from now on:

Click on the picture for a larger version:


Extra large full screen image

Here's the scheme:
Prodigal_831.clr.txt

When you save the clr file, just remove the .txt extension from the file name.

Caveat: I am using a customized resource file to lighten the grey of the MSR buttons, and also tweaked cakewalk.ini according to the instructions in the help file.


stickman,

I love your scheme!
Any chance that I could get a copy of your cakewalk.ini and TTSRes16.dll?

thanks,

...Steven
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/04 13:48:49 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: TheSteven

I love your scheme!
Any chance that I could get a copy of your cakewalk.ini and TTSRes16.dll?



Check your PM.

I've found that getting a comfortable UI in SONAR requires as much tweaking of the widget tabs and track/folder arrangements, as well as the color schemes...
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/04 23:25:53 (permalink)
I'm interested in the ini file also stickman. cheers!
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/07 00:09:56 (permalink)
Steven, Buddy -

I've updated my original post earlier in this thread to include a link to a ZIP file containing the RES.DLL and some notes on how to tweak the cakewalk.ini file.
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/09 00:25:31 (permalink)
Welcome to the Dark Side:





Go HERE, & click "Download".


Another "oddity": when I do a Win search for .clr files nothing ever comes up. To Windows they don't exsist.
post edited by soens - 2009/05/09 01:57:03
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/09 01:58:27 (permalink)
thanks sticky!
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/09 04:07:04 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: alree

I think I might be going through a dark gray period:)


How do you do what you do?:

1- Change the TIME font

2- Make color changes in the left panel of the Console View

3- Make those iMac looking scrolly things

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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/09 08:05:30 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: alree

Sorry, cant help you with the PSP thing, I've only ever used Photoshop. Download the trial - good for 30 days I think.


I created a new 32 bit BMP using PS Elements 2 but my renderings turn up invisible in Sonar. I had to copy & paste the new image into the original BMP & save it that way.
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/10 08:57:06 (permalink)
Anybody know how to change the color of the note bars on the prv? I know you can by way of the cakewalk.ini file change whether it uses the foreground or background color from track view. What I'd like to do is to make the color of selected notes (highlighted, if you will) a drastically different color from the unselected notes. That would really help me see things in a crowded prv screen more clearly. I don't seem to see anything in the color prefs pane that would allow me to do that. But then again, some of the entry names for some of the things that you can change the colors on aren't intuitive and I'd really like to see screenshots with callouts for each of the items referenced in the color picker window. The help file on this isn't all that helpful.

BTW, windows search couldn't find the cakewalk.ini file even when I told it to look in hidden and system file folders. Had to manually look for it. And to top it off, I had 3 - 1 each for S3P, S5P, and S8P!

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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/13 07:42:30 (permalink)
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/13 10:22:14 (permalink)
I ran into this too, Jackn2mpu. You can reverse it, like you said, but it appears to be tied directly to the Foreground and Background colors you have chosen in the Colors dialog, where selected vs non-selected notes are background/foreground colors, respectively (according to the .ini designation as to which is which). Same goes for the inline PRV in the trackview.

Doesn't look like there is a way to change this, even through a hack of the resources, since the notes we see aren't bitmaps, they are drawn according to the color rules.

I think the Colors dialog, for as complex as it is, needs some overhauling. I don't REALLY think it's that important, but I still like to change things up here and again, and as it is now, you can either use a preset or lightly modified one or one from here on the forums. It takes a pretty deep level of dedication to really do it right, getting all of the elements - and there are a lot.

A few things I'd change:
1. Make the dialog run such that there is a way to select a screen element by clicking on it, which would jump to the color asignment
2. Add a color sampling pen to the dialog so that once you have selected the item to change, you can sample another screen color to get consistency and avoid all the jumping back and forth to other elements to get the codes for the color.
3. Add some amount of skinning rather than the intricate, probably against the rules of the EULA to tinker with, undocumented way we have now, which is to modify the resources directly at the .dll file to change some elements that need to be changed to allow some color schemes to work at all. For example, the background colors of the MSR (and other similar) buttons. They are always grey unless you want to dive into "not easy" territory. Lots of colors look bad with grey.
4. Do something else with where the colors are kept. The registry is not great to deal with. An XML file would be great, and a lot more easily transportable.

Hope this helps. Anyone agree?

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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/13 11:45:35 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: Blades

I ran into this too, Jackn2mpu. You can reverse it, like you said, but it appears to be tied directly to the Foreground and Background colors you have chosen in the Colors dialog, where selected vs non-selected notes are background/foreground colors, respectively (according to the .ini designation as to which is which). Same goes for the inline PRV in the trackview.

Doesn't look like there is a way to change this, even through a hack of the resources, since the notes we see aren't bitmaps, they are drawn according to the color rules.

I think the Colors dialog, for as complex as it is, needs some overhauling. I don't REALLY think it's that important, but I still like to change things up here and again, and as it is now, you can either use a preset or lightly modified one or one from here on the forums. It takes a pretty deep level of dedication to really do it right, getting all of the elements - and there are a lot.

A few things I'd change:
1. Make the dialog run such that there is a way to select a screen element by clicking on it, which would jump to the color asignment
2. Add a color sampling pen to the dialog so that once you have selected the item to change, you can sample another screen color to get consistency and avoid all the jumping back and forth to other elements to get the codes for the color.
3. Add some amount of skinning rather than the intricate, probably against the rules of the EULA to tinker with, undocumented way we have now, which is to modify the resources directly at the .dll file to change some elements that need to be changed to allow some color schemes to work at all. For example, the background colors of the MSR (and other similar) buttons. They are always grey unless you want to dive into "not easy" territory. Lots of colors look bad with grey.
4. Do something else with where the colors are kept. The registry is not great to deal with. An XML file would be great, and a lot more easily transportable.

Hope this helps. Anyone agree?

Your first item is something like I mentioned - maybe expand the color picker window to show a representative but non-functional screen like the track view or console view or whatever, and when you hover over a widget or area it highlights the entry in the color picker area corresponding to that item on the screen.
Item 3 obviously can be made to work; after all, something like that happens in NI's Kontakt 2 with certain items in their gui. It's an absolute shame we have to resort to hacks to fix things they way we want.

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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/16 11:52:38 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: stickman393

Steven, Buddy -

I've updated my original post earlier in this thread to include a link to a ZIP file containing the RES.DLL and some notes on how to tweak the cakewalk.ini file.


Stickman,
Thanks for the update, much appreciated. Link to original post
Sorry for the delayed response, been buried in a project.

One question for you. How did you get the volume and panning widgets (is that what they're called?) to show on the left side of the mute, solo and record icons?
Mine always show up on the right side of the M,S,R icons.

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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/16 17:53:15 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: TheSteven

One question for you. How did you get the volume and panning widgets (is that what they're called?) to show on the left side of the mute, solo and record icons?
Mine always show up on the right side of the M,S,R icons.



Believe it or not, Alt+Click+Drag in the Track view allows you to rearrange them. I don't know where it is stored, doesn't appear to be the cakewalk.ini...
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/16 19:44:23 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: stickman393

Believe it or not, Alt+Click+Drag in the Track view allows you to rearrange them.


Cool, didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/17 16:06:14 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: soens

How do you do what you do?:

1- Change the TIME font



Right-click on the TIME value, select Font... from the context menu, select something else.
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RE: SONAR Color Schemes 2009/05/18 10:43:36 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: candlesayshi

Ok... Well, I don't think I'm very good at this for the moment, but I tried to make a color scheme that's based on Rapture. If someone does a better version or improves on it, I'd be very grateful.

Like I said, I can't really vouch for how good it is. So, I guess it's a version 1.



Download: Rapture Version One


Been giving this a spin. Gotta say I'm Loving it!
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Grays with Orange V2 2009/06/01 23:15:38 (permalink)
Buddy's faders with a couple of resource changes to the console view

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8445/grayswithorangezoom.jpg
post edited by hbb - 2009/06/01 23:27:19
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RE: Grays with Orange V2 2009/06/02 15:17:14 (permalink)
Real nice!!

Where can it be downloaded?
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RE: Grays with Orange V2 2009/06/02 16:54:18 (permalink)

ORIGINAL: hbb

Buddy's faders with a couple of resource changes to the console view

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8445/grayswithorangezoom.jpg


That looks pretty sweet.

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RE: Grays with Orange V2 2009/06/02 17:23:58 (permalink)
That looks pretty sweet.

Yes! I love Buddy's rounded faders even with no other changes, but this looks even better!

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