Will The New Sonar Change The Clip BACKGROUND Colors?

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).

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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).

I can change the background color of any clip into any color I want, and I'm using X3e
Just use the inspector

I was told by one of the Cake guys that the background color option has not been changed. 
 
I've been using Panup's Duckbar with X3 and it's made a world of difference.  Of course you cant use the track/buss color feature.  I don't' know if this Duckbar version will work in Sonar 2015 or not.
 
Paul

RogerH

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).

I can change the background color of any clip into any color I want, and I'm using X3e
Just use the inspector

 
Please take a screen shot, because that is NOT true (unless you upgraded from Sonar X2)

RogerH
I'm not using the duckbar
 

in a clean install of Sonar X3 you cannot change clip colors automatically. you need to go into the inspector EACH TIME, and then if you combine clips, they go black again.

I am looking for this in the COLOR PREFERENCES!

soens
Unbelievable! Yes there was a change in how X3 handles clip colors BUT! You can still change them by using the Inspector.
 
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.

agreed, or just add it back to the color preferences so they can be defined by track #.

Yes you can manually set colors for each clip individually in the inspector but as has been stated it will revert back to the default when you bounce.  It's also very slow and tedious.  I like my colors associated with track numbers like in 8.5.  If I could at least make the clip backgrounds colored and the waveforms black I'd be good, (set them in preferences and be done with it).  I was so looking forward to the track/bus color feature...
 
Paul

INSPECTOR
 
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RogerH
Select all, and change bg color for all tracks in 2 second. I know it's a workaround, but i takes me 2 seconds....

The OP said that bg colors couldn't be changed, and that's just not correct

Yep, you're right.  However some of us really like our BG colors set to track numbers, like S8.5 so we would have to change them individually and of course, re-do when we bounce.
 
Paul

The second post (mine) in this thread explains why the new color implementation (track header color = clip foreground color = PRV note color) in X3 is very logical and helpful for me:
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/X3c-color-customizations-need-change-to-the-Clip-Backgroung-not-Foregroung-m2924793.aspx
 
BTW, you can change the Clips pane background colors if you find the black clips hard to identify.

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mike_mccue
Can you make the Waveform Black so that it is a black waveform on top of the clip color of your choice?
 

 
Sure. Since the track header color is linked to the clip foreground (waveform) color, all you need to do is change the track header color to black. But if you don't want the track header to be black (well, it's not really black, it looks dark grey), you need to select all clips in the track and choose black from the Background dropdown in the Clips Properties Inspector. Unfortunately, the waveforms of clips you record in the track after changing this option will still inherit the track header's color, so you'll need to select these clips and change their clip foreground color to black.