ALL credit goes to forum member "yoe" who described his/her idea in THIS thread.

I agree that it's f**king brilliant! My thinking of the implementation was the same as dewdman42;

I would probably usually have all my track strips be the same color but then I might choose to select a particular strip, right click, choose an alternate color for it

How tough can this be to code? Cake would have to save one more parameter per track in the .cwp file, they'd have to mod the drop-down menu which pops up when you right-click in the console fader area (the one that has group and automation info in it) to handle the user specified color value, then mod the "paint the console" routine and the "paint a track" subroutine to specify a color to display. If I had the source code, I think I could do it in a day. Cake - put me on staff! I think I'd have a blast working on SONAR (I'll bet the company jam sesions don't suck either!).

Does any other DAW already offer this?

Oh...I'm glad you guys like it. I think I'll be changing the clip colors when I find time. Seems a little dull right now.

I now realize I have no idea how to share the .clr file here. I don't have a public server to save it on. When exporting the color presets there are two check boxes available, one for current color set and one for color presets. What's the difference?

How can I share this .clr file?
Help...

DoubleT

It makes XP looks more like Vista

I've had a good experience (including stability) using WindowBlinds to make XP look like Vista. It's about $20 USD. Works great, looks great.

Great idea!

ORIGINAL: Hansenhaus

DoubleT,

If you can email me the .clr file. I will host it on my site and provide a link here. PM or email me.

By the way, are you running XP and if so where did you get the black task bar?

After seeing your screenshots I Googled XP black taskbar and found something called Vista Inspirat. It makes XP looks more like Vista and I think it's really nice. But I'm curious what you have going on.

For anyone interested you can get Vista Inspirat here:
http://www.vista-inspirat.net/

I think it looks really awesome with Sonar 7. It compliments the new buttons very nicely.

Eric

Hey Eric!

Thank a lot for that. I'm really enjoying the Vista look with the XP performance, this is nice! I currently have it installed on my internet computer but I'm not sure if I should proceed to install it on my DAW as I'm sure there'll be a small hit. I'm gonna try it out here for a few days and see how it goes. Thanks again.

Take care!

ORIGINAL: Jose7822

ORIGINAL: Hansenhaus

DoubleT,

If you can email me the .clr file. I will host it on my site and provide a link here. PM or email me.

By the way, are you running XP and if so where did you get the black task bar?

After seeing your screenshots I Googled XP black taskbar and found something called Vista Inspirat. It makes XP looks more like Vista and I think it's really nice. But I'm curious what you have going on.

For anyone interested you can get Vista Inspirat here:
http://www.vista-inspirat.net/

I think it looks really awesome with Sonar 7. It compliments the new buttons very nicely.

Eric

Hey Eric!

Thank a lot for that. I'm really enjoying the Vista look with the XP performance, this is nice! I currently have it installed on my internet computer but I'm not sure if I should proceed to install it on my DAW as I'm sure there'll be a small hit. I'm gonna try it out here for a few days and see how it goes. Thanks again.

Take care!

Jose,

I'm glad you like it. I have not experienced any performance hits with it on my DAW. I tried it with Rocket Dock, Ubericon and Y's Shadow on and off and did not notice any difference. Just to be safe I will keep those items dissable during critical DAW operations.

Be carefull with the refresh icons button. It will complete rearrange your desktop icons. This can be a real hassle for some.

I'm glad you like. I think it's awesome.

Eric

Thanks Eric, just installed it on my laptop and it looks superb, even better its free. great.

Gerry

Hi Taylor-

Hope all this works.

It did for me, and I like the combination very much after living with it for a couple of days.

Thanks-

-Susan

ORIGINAL: revnice1

How do you post an image!?

rev

You have to first upload it to the web (I use http://photobucket.com/ for this) and then copy and paste it's link here using the image button in the tool bar (or by using [image]"insert image link here"[/image].



HTH

I didn't read the whole thread....

But: is it possible to import color schemes in S7 yet? Or does it need time to make it possible in further updates?

I tried it with several of the http://sonartemplates.googlepages.com/home schemes but without any success!

I tried the usual (in the handbook explained( way?

Ideas?

Options > Colors > Import Colors - that's how it's supposed to happen in Sonar7

that's what I did.... but nothing happened.

THX revnice!

Don't know exactly what you mean tith "your exports" ... but I've sent you the *.clr files I tried to import.

Thx again!

Well ... I'll see what you bring along. But tomorrow - I need to go to bed now (here in germany..)

Hi, import .clr files from Sonar english version on an other language version of Sonar doesn't work. Open a .clr file with notepad or wordpad from your version and a .clr file from this thread, you understand why.

Ahh... that must be the solution!

Is there a way to get it done though? Does anybody have an idea... maybe some of the german users?

Do I maybe have to change something in the *.clr files using wordpad?