thanks for the colors, i really like easy on my eye site, helps me to work longer on projects,is there any more sites where i can get some more?

ORIGINAL: Ognis


Thanks everyone. The link to my file is on the previous page :)

I like yours a lot too, Ognis !

(Since I don't have the one from MrPhil yet)

Thanks

Sorry I missed the DonM_DarkSide01.clr scheme... Nothing beats a dark background when you've got video going on at the same time.

Oh, never mind, I just found Rothchild's Sonartemplates page.

I prefer interfaces to be painfully unadorned, with almost no colors, no gradients, with bold dark text on light backgrounds. My eyesight isn't that great and all those fiddly pretty candy things make me tired after hours of staring.

After some tinkering, I've come up with palette I can tolerate:


I think I am overlooking some settings somewhere. I still can't figure out how to change certain buttons, although an earlier tip in this thread may help me banish the gradients. Any info on accomplishing the following?:

Is it possible?

[edited for deranged sentence structure]

Hey there Sonar buddies, I've just finally got round to getting the latest batch of colour templates posted up to sonartemplates.googlepages.com (sorry about the delay!) I've not posted Jtanks or MrPhils as I can't see the .clr files for them (if you want me to post them on the site then please just email them to popworksATgmailDOTcom and I'll get 'em up there)

I'm loving this new flurry of schemes, although I have an awful confession..... I still use the default s6 Scheme with one minor change, which is to change the volume control to blue and the pan to orange (as per S4, cos otherwise I keep going for the gain rather than volume!) I'm hoping that someone is gonna post one soon which'll convert me. ;-)

Cheers
Child

RothChild,

Don't forget to include DoubleTWord's color scheme which I think looks pretty cool. Here's the picture:





And here's the file: http://www.mediafire.com/?2g3jvgit9xr


Thanks!

Your wish is my command!

;-)

It's done, thanks Jose and DoubleTword.

Child

A bit of poking around has shown me how the dark murky buttons in SONAR 7 might be turned into light, simple buttons. Unfortunately, it won't be trivial.

I used RESOURCE HACKER to examine the EXE and DLL files installed with SONAR 7. All the images, including the buttons and splash screens and more, are contained in TTSRes16.dll. It's a big file, with hundreds of bitmaps, among other things. I was surprised to see that this file contained not only images for SONAR 7, but bitmaps with splash screens and interface elements for many different (such as LE) and older versions of SONAR and even what appears to be interface elements from CAKEWALK PRO AUDIO.

There are several sets of buttons that are closer to what I'd like to see in SONAR 7 - light grey with black icons. I assume they're from earlier versions of the program. How do I go about telling SONAR 7 to use these instead of its default?

Is there a secret cakewalk.ini setting that will compel SONAR to choose another set of button bitmaps from TTSRes16.dll?

I tried substituting my own altered, simplified button images into the dll file. Good news, it didn't prevent SONAR from starting and running. Bad news, the new image didn't appear in the interface. I notice many seemingly redundant sets of button images in the dll, so I must have missed the right slot into which to plug the modified image.

I have experience skinning WINAMP and AIMP, and it seems that skinning SONAR should be no more difficult. However, without the scheme or a skinning tool, I'm shooting in the dark here.

Any secret info or glaringly obvious resources I've overlooked that might assist me in this attempt to bend SONAR's interface to my own demented will?

This has got to be the greatest thread EVER for the longest time!
Thanks Mr Rothchild for hosting this !
And for everyones' contributions
AWESOME

ORIGINAL: JTANK

A bit of poking around has shown me how the dark murky buttons in SONAR 7 might be turned into light, simple buttons. Unfortunately, it won't be trivial.

I used RESOURCE HACKER to examine the EXE and DLL files installed with SONAR 7. All the images, including the buttons and splash screens and more, are contained in TTSRes16.dll. It's a big file, with hundreds of bitmaps, among other things. I was surprised to see that this file contained not only images for SONAR 7, but bitmaps with splash screens and interface elements for many different (such as LE) and older versions of SONAR and even what appears to be interface elements from CAKEWALK PRO AUDIO.

There are several sets of buttons that are closer to what I'd like to see in SONAR 7 - light grey with black icons. I assume they're from earlier versions of the program. How do I go about telling SONAR 7 to use these instead of its default?

Is there a secret cakewalk.ini setting that will compel SONAR to choose another set of button bitmaps from TTSRes16.dll?

I tried substituting my own altered, simplified button images into the dll file. Good news, it didn't prevent SONAR from starting and running. Bad news, the new image didn't appear in the interface. I notice many seemingly redundant sets of button images in the dll, so I must have missed the right slot into which to plug the modified image.

I have experience skinning WINAMP and AIMP, and it seems that skinning SONAR should be no more difficult. However, without the scheme or a skinning tool, I'm shooting in the dark here.

Any secret info or glaringly obvious resources I've overlooked that might assist me in this attempt to bend SONAR's interface to my own demented will?

I haven't gone as far as trying to change the buttons this way but it sounds like it should be doable. There are still a few things that one cannot change in Sonar using the Colors Command, or at least I haven't found a way to do them. Like the background color in the Console View...actually there's a bunch of stuff that's not costumizable in Console View...i.e. the background color for the EQ, Pan, etc. Also, I was wondering if anyone knows how to change the color of the little peak markers inside the meters (I don't know what to call them). I can provide a picture if you guys don't know what I'm talking about. Last but not least, and I've been trying to get an answer on this one for a long time, how to change the meters in Console View so that they're displayed like in the ACT video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUZsxLJwYSM&feature=related

I hate the look of the Console view meters, so if anyone (Robin Kelly?) knows how to do this please share .


Take care all!