I'm guessing your GUI for Duckbar is all .net but your calls into cakewalk is where you're calling the Win32 api?

Yes, communication with SONAR is almost all done using API calls. Duckbar GUI is all .net.

redbarchetta


Hi all... 

Was wondering if you can change track strip colors so you can coordinate like tracks.  Say, if you have a drum folder with drum tracks in it, is there a way to make the actual strips themselves have a different background color?  I know you can make the track itself have different background and foreground colors but, if I'm working in the mix window, it would be nice to be able to group things by color.  Or some other means of organization. 

I'm a glutton for punishment with Beep and Bub...

Yes! Being able to colour (color?) code the tracks would be GREAT!!!

That is one thing that Avid and Steinberg (and probably others) have done very correctly in their products. I'd love to see that in Sonar if it's possible to implement. When working with 100+ tracks it tends to be a lot of squinting on the track names.

One way to find out what colours can be changed is to go into preferences > colours (or wherever it is), use the "select all" (or whatever it's called) and set everything to something ridiculous like shocking pink.

You'll see immediately what can be changed and what can't.

(Save your project before you do this, then close it without saving [unless you pink of course ])

I like to do:

blue = drums
brown = bass
yellow = guitar
purple =keyboards
orange = vocals
etc.

Who needs silly track icons?

...but in SONAR you actually use only grey and identify tracks using icons. :)

Icons are good but takes too much time to set up unless you're only using track templates and they steal screen real estate. Colour coding is better.

Hey Panup... I got my purchased version of Sonar installed last night. Duckbar is working now.  Haven't had any time yet to really play with it, but it is working.