Jlien X

soens
It is a little disconcerting, though, that whenever I "bounce to clips" I have to reset the colors because doing so reverts the clip to default colors. That should be fixed.

 
I don't think that's a bug, soens. Imagine when you combine two clips that have different foreground/background colors and different names. Should Sonar bring up a dialog box asking you which colors and name the new, bounced clip should inherit? If so, I think it's a feature request. I don't know how many of the other DAWs handle this, but Studio One shows the same behavior as Sonar. 

 
How about just bring back the color preferences for "Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc... Background clip!

Panup wrote today at his sonarmods.com site that he probably wouldn't even have a chance to look at the new Sonar for implentation to Duckbar until Summer.


NOT happy with that.

alewgro

Jlien X

soens
It is a little disconcerting, though, that whenever I "bounce to clips" I have to reset the colors because doing so reverts the clip to default colors. That should be fixed.

 
I don't think that's a bug, soens. Imagine when you combine two clips that have different foreground/background colors and different names. Should Sonar bring up a dialog box asking you which colors and name the new, bounced clip should inherit? If so, I think it's a feature request. I don't know how many of the other DAWs handle this, but Studio One shows the same behavior as Sonar. 

 
How about just bring back the color preferences for "Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc... Background clip!

 
Well, I'm not against the idea of bringing back the option to specify a default clip background color for the track as long as the link between the colors of the track header, clip foreground and PRV notes is retained. But, even the option was brought back, the behavior soens considers an issue would still be there. Let's say you have red, blue and green clips in a track whose default clip background color is set to red. Now, what should happen when you merge the blue and green clips? Which background color (and name) should the merged clip inherit?
 
Why do I have clips of different colors in a single track? I usually have several groups of linked clips in single track and being able to give different background colors to different groups helps me identify which clips are linked to which clips. And I can also easily identify which clips aren't linked at all, because they have the default black background color.

im not sure what the issue is, it takes 2 seconds to change it in the inspector.

Checked Platinum's preferences and there is no option to permanently select a clip background colour. You can set the highlighted track background colour permanently, but it doesn't appear to have an all clips background option.
 
Unless I'm missing something?
 
If you select a background colour in the inspector and then bounce the track, it still reverts to the default.

Royal Yaksman
If you select a background colour in the inspector and then bounce the track, it still reverts to the default.

 
That's normal. Read post #35?

I acknowledgement to the forum members, and now Sonar Members constant requests for the colour preferences to be returned to how they once were, Cakewalk have agreed to make it the very next feature to implement, following the implementation of the Notation overhaul. Which today they have now confirmed where this falls on their schedule.

In X3e you can change the background color of clips to white, if you export the colors to a file and then insert the line
"Audio Clip Background=11904404"
Then import the file. The clip background is now white as a "standard".
Bouncing clips makes the background also white.
 
But the "new" Sonar ignores this line in the clr-file.
The trick no longer works. This is now full intention.
 

Dan Gonzalez [Cakewalk]

alewgro
Having black clips everywhere kinda sux.   Before Sonar X3 you could adjust the background color of a clip, but X3 removed that.   I wish when coloring a track, it would change the BACKGROUND, not the FOREGROUND (notes).

You can change the background color of any clip. Go to the clip inspector and it's right there. :)

I've decided that there are exactly two kinds of people in the world... those that think don't understand why this isn't an adequate fix and those that want their background colors back.
 
Actually when I first read your post I laughed out loud I thought it was a very well-timed and brilliant joke... still can't tell maybe it is.

chuckebaby
im not sure what the issue is, it takes 2 seconds to change it in the inspector.

Have you been reading?  I've said it at least 3 times now.   If you change the clips in inspector, the minute you bounce those clips, they go back to being black clips again.   

Also, I don't want to have to do that every time I have a new track.  I would like them to be loaded automatically.
 
It was removed from Sonar X3 for some reason.  I was using Duckbar, but I hate using Duckbar because first off, its add-on software, also Cakewalk doesn't support it. If i have to submit a bug, I have to revert back.

Jlien X

alewgro
 
#1.  The minute you bounce a track, it goes back to black again.
 

I think this is the fourth time I say this in this thread. The clip background color going back to black is a normal, expected behavior and I explained it clearly (Did anyone answer the question I posed in post #35?). The only problem (at least for some people here) is that X3 removed the option to specify a default clip background color for the whole track.
 
I suggest you post a feature request if you haven't. Those who need the option back will give you +1. 

Hi Jlien X,
 
Yes exactly.  I'm having to post the same thing in this thread as well.  Yes, I will make a feature request. I haven't because I use Duckbar, but I don't want to rely on 3rd party apps anymore.

RogerH

alewgro
This is TRULY amazing...  it goes to show most people don't actually read the threads  before posting.
 

First I just want to say that I agree that we should have back the option in the prereferences...
 
But your original post #1, claimed that it was impossible to change clip colors.
I responded, and told you that it was possible.
You said that it wasn't true, and asked for a screenshot (did you think I was telling a lie?) (post#9)
Then in post#10,the word "PREFERENCES" came into the game for the first time in this thread.
now that changes everything.
If you had written this magic word in your first post, a lot of misunderstanding could have been avoided.
And it could have saved you and others a lot of time (and frustration).
 
 
So please stop the rude and angry and attitude and take a look in the mirror

 
fair enough.  to be honest, in my original post I actually didn't know about the Inspector.  I tried it, and then realized it's not a good enough option because of the reasons I stated earlier.
 
Sorry if I was rude.  It was just getting frustrating reading the same things from multiple people (even after I stated how the Inspector wasn't good enough - and people were still replying "INSPECTOR"
 
Again sorry. 

Yup! and until Cakewalk adds this feature back in, I'm staying with Sonar X3 and my Duckbar config :)

It's amazing that they actually REMOVED this!  It was in X2