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?

ORIGINAL: Hansenhaus

DoubleTword,

Nice color scheme.

I would like to download it. Do you have a link?

Eric

Yes, I would like this as well. Can you PM it to me DoubleTword? Or maybe post it here so that it can be included with the other Color Schemes so that others can download it too. Thanks in advanced.

Take care!

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

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

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.

I have installed Vista Inspirat 2 on my PC that I use for the net and there's no problem with CPU or stability. Works like before, just looks different. You can remove it easily if you don't like it.

Great idea!

I do hope this works. I'm using MediaFire to host the .clr file. Here's the link:

Sonar7BrownSound

Yes I'm using a Windows XP laptop, with an additional larger monitor. The awesome shiny black Windows Desktop theme is actually a Microsoft design that didn't make it to market called Royale Noir.

Here's the link: Royale Noir

Not only is this simple to load up, but has no weirdness at all. No need to change any registry settings or anything. It will give you a black desktop wallpaper, which I lighten a little to a dark gray.

Hope all this works.
DoubleTWord

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: DoubleTWord

I do hope this works. I'm using MediaFire to host the .clr file. Here's the link:

Sonar7BrownSound

Yes I'm using a Windows XP laptop, with an additional larger monitor. The awesome shiny black Windows Desktop theme is actually a Microsoft design that didn't make it to market called Royale Noir.

Here's the link: Royale Noir

Not only is this simple to load up, but has no weirdness at all. No need to change any registry settings or anything. It will give you a black desktop wallpaper, which I lighten a little to a dark gray.

Hope all this works.
DoubleTWord

DoubleT,


This is BAD!!!

...the good one of course . It gives my system a nice feel and makes me feel very relaxed when working in Sonar. You did a great job!

I checked out the Royale Noir theme and I liked it. Not as much as the Vista Inspirat one but it feels very light so I might go with that on my DAW and just keep the Inspirat on my Internet computer.

Thanks a lot!