alree


My latest scheme with the various TTSRes hacks can be downloaded here -

http://bare-foot.org/diamond/TTSRes16.zip For Sonar 7.

http://bare-foot.org/diamond/TTSRes17.zip For Sonar 8.

Each .zip contains 4 colour schemes for the segmented level meters - Blue, Cyan, Green and Yellow.

Hope you enjoy.

Many thanks for this really nice console now. How do I use the other colours , at the moment mine is blue.

Thanks a lot John....you're most welcome!

I've made 2 different meter sets for sonar 8.x and widened them out slightly to give a more solid/dominant effect, etc

"Cool Blues"


"Cool Blues v2"


"Classic Greens"


- Sonar 8.x - "Cool Blues"
- Sonar 8.x - "Cool Blues v2"

- Sonar 8.x - "Classic Greens"

Let me know if there are any issues with these...getting a little crazy to compile between the sonar versions.

Enjoy! xD

- Sam

Woo Hooo!

Thanks Buddy (Sam), you're the man.
If I swap out the TTSRes17.dll will this let me keep the rounded faders or does this revert me back to the original faders and just change the meter colors?

And I would also like to add a big Thank You for the work you've put into all this.

Mike
 

jimmybreakz, I've tested here again and works fine... just make sure sonar is not running and to use either the 8.3 (32-bit) or the 8.5 (32-bit & 64-bit) that's in the same directory. Let me know if you still have problems.

Mike, thanks a lot! I'm doing them in a modular way, so if you use the faders you prefer first...then use the meters you prefer...it should look how you want. (I'll update my faders patches soon so that only the faders are patched...at the moment the meters + a few other UI things are in there too)

I must be missing something simple.
I use the rounded faders and open Sonar to check. They're there, yay.

I then run the meter installer and open Sonar to check. Meters are correct but faders are gone.

After I install the faders do I need to rename the TTSRes17.dll so that the meter one doesn't replace it?

I know it can be done because I see it here.

 
Mike

Hey Buddy,

I'm still not doing something right. I'm a little handicapped when it comes to this sort of thing.
What I'm doing is, I put the patcher for the faders into the folder and run it, then I put the patcher for the meters in and run that. For some reason when I open Sonar the faders are correct but the meters don't change.

Could you please break it down to a step by step as if you were explaining it to 3rd grader?
Here's a screenshot of my Sonar folder if it helps you see what I'm doing.




Sorry to be such a pain in the ass with this. I really do appreciate the help.

Mike

Oh hey...Glad you got it sorted. Don't worry, these kind of things can be tricky sometimes. I'll update my rounded faders soon (so they won't have any meter changes in there). This modular way is probably best so people can pick and mix what they prefer.

I'm not wearing a hat, but if I was I'd take it off to you, Buddy110.

May I ask you how to change the background colour of the buttons on the toolbars? I couldn't see anywhere in the Color Schemes dialogue box that allows me to do that. My S5PE has almost white background to the buttons, and I find the dark grey of S8 less than attractive.

Wouldn't it be nice if Cakewalk made this stuff all more accessible in editing - even something like the way the new VSTs are done would be nice...like SD2 can be reskinned.

Buddy, I appreciate the work that goes into making these graphics (hoops to jump through) in addition to just FINDING the proper graphics to change.  Not having the ability to write individual patches like you are doing without a software investment is a drag.  I can edit the .dll, but I can't create patch files, just a whole file replacement.

here's my attempt on some orange meters from patching.



Edited - I used a trial version of restorator and as a result all the tabs in the sonar menu and all windows had the restorator title at the top. It changed how the menu appeared as well so as I result I decided to revert back to the original file and then patch buddys faders and blue meters. If anyone wants to do a patch of orange/gold faders, feel free to use the images below.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/877390/1406.bmp
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/877390/1407.bmp
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/877390/2744.bmp


Also here's a colour scheme I've made since getting sonar 8.5. I actually quite liked the clip colours Cake did for this version of Sonar but preferred the settings I had from the dark london colour scheme on Rothchilds page. The differences between the 2 are that non segmented meters in the colour schemes are either blue or orange so if you have the track view with non segmented meters (because they can be smaller and save space) and the console view with segmented meters they have similar colours to each other.

Roth if you want add anything to your page, feel free

New Sonar 8.5 Scheme with blue (non segmented) faders

New Sonar 8.5 scheme with orange (non segmented) faders



(see full size)

Thanks

BluesMeister


Hey Jon Con, that's a neat idea having the transport controls down at the bottom! I would never have thought of that.

Cheers, glad you like it, if I'm totally honest I think I copied it off someone else in this thread ages ago (think it might have been buddy110 or alree, can never remember) so I wouldn't be able to take that much credit for it

Hi Buddy,you are great!!I love your meters.Unfortunally i have an Italian XP and i have an error when i patch the Cake file (TTRES don't found)'couse the content is in the "Programmi" instead in "Program Files".
I  tried to create a new address with Program Files but is the same.
Can you help me??

Greetings

Roberto

Hi Jon,thanks very much for replay.I have patched in the Sonar 8.5 folder but i have a new error,
"The file is wrong file".It's strange couse i have used a  x32 buddy file.
Any advices?

Best

Roby

Yes!!It's the same here!But  i can't install the patch.