Is there a way to globally untick the Use Track Colours box in the clip properties inspector for all tracks so that the audio wave form in the clips does not change colour when the bus / track colour is altered ?

Hit Ctrl+A in the Clips pane (which selects all tracks) and then untick the Use Track Colors box, no?

Jlien X
Hit Ctrl+A in the Clips pane (which selects all tracks) and then untick the Use Track Colors box, no?

Thanks for the suggestion, but no, that doesn't work, it only does the "in focus" / highlighted track.

Strange, Ctrl+A selects all tracks and clips here and if I then untick the Use Tracks Color box the foreground clip color no longer changes when I choose a different color from the color palette. Maybe I just don't understand the original post, which occasionally happens. 

So are you saying that if you Select All and then untick the Use Tracks Colour box on one track that it unticks the box on all the other tracks too ? That's not happening here, it only unticks the one track that has the inspector open.
 
What I want to do is to be able to have the track colour follow the bus colour, which is easy enough, but I don't want the waveforms in the tracks to change to that colour too. I can do this on an individual track basis by unticking the box on each track, but I would like to be able to apply this to all tracks at once or even better in a global setting kind of way way so that it will apply to every project.

Yes, just like you can change the clip name of all selected clips at once (I'll check it again when I get back home since I was only paying attention to the background color). Note that the option you're referring to is in the CLIP Inspector, so unticking it can only affect the existing clips you've selected, which means all new clips you record will still have the default color, if I'm not mistaken.

Ok, so, here I loaded the Normal project template, and deleted the MIDI track and added some audio tracks, then dragged some audio clips from the Browser into the tracks. At this stage, all clips' Use Track Colors boxes are enabled (by default). The screenshot below shows the Use Track Colors box of the clip in Track 4 that I have selected.

 
 
 
Next, without doing anything to the Clip Inspector of the clip in Track 4, I just move the focus to the 1st track and then hit Ctrl+A, which selects all clips and tracks like this:



 
Then, if I untick the Use Track Colors box, all clips selected changes its foreground color (waveform) to match the foreground color of the clip in the 1st track (btw, this shouldn't happen, and CW has already confirmed this bug), like this:



 
Finally, even if I change the strip color of all the tracks, it doesn't affect any of the clips.



 
You can change the clip foreground and background colors to whatever colors you like, and changing the strip colors doesn't affect the clip colors at all.



 
 
Hope that helps

Thank you for taking the time to make such a detailed response - much appreciated, but what you show in your example just isn't happening for me. After Cntrl-A and un-ticking the box all that happens is that box becomes unticked. They don't all change colour as per your example and the box remains ticked in all the other tracks. When I shift the focus back to the track with the unticked box it is ticked again.
 
What I really would like to do is for the waveform to always follow its default color and never be affected by track / bus colour across all projects - I don't want to have to manually alter every project and then find that every time I switch to another track that those settings are then changed back - I don't see any logic in that at all - why would anyone want to change something and then have it changed back for them when they look in another direction ?

Hey Paulo!
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation/default.aspx?Doc=SONAR%20X3&Lang=EN&Req=Playback.34.html
 

By default, tracks follow the color of the bus they are assigned to. If you do not want to assign a custom color or follow the bus color, click and hold down the Follow Bus button, then select Default on the pop-up menu.

 

If you do not want tracks to inherit bus colors, go to Edit > Preferences > Customization - Colors and click the Track Defaults button, then click and hold down the Follow Bus button and select Default on the pop-up menu. You can also configure individual tracks to ignore bus colors (see To select a track color).

gswitz
Hey Paulo!
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation/default.aspx?Doc=SONAR%20X3&Lang=EN&Req=Playback.34.html
 

By default, tracks follow the color of the bus they are assigned to. If you do not want to assign a custom color or follow the bus color, click and hold down the Follow Bus button, then select Default on the pop-up menu.

 

If you do not want tracks to inherit bus colors, go to Edit > Preferences > Customization - Colors and click the Track Defaults button, then click and hold down the Follow Bus button and select Default on the pop-up menu. You can also configure individual tracks to ignore bus colors (see To select a track color).

Thanks for responding - I have seen that already, but none of it answers the question.....
 
"When you change the track color, it affects the track strip in the Track view, Console view, Inspector, and clip foreground color"
 
This is what I would like to turn off on a global basis. I want the clip foreground(waveform) to never be affected by whatever I do to the track/bus colour options.