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Anyone can do this to their themes at any time! I have instructions up on the site, me thinks.

amplidood wrote:Anyone can do this to their themes at any time! I have instructions up on the site, me thinks.

I have to confess to using a customised version of your Mellow - still a favourite but I have made it lighter and added some tweaks here and there. But its a nice one to work with for long sessions.

I've done likewise. I think I have 4 versions of Gotham to choose from, at least 3 of which were customized by me. Really, the amount of customization you can do right there in the Preferences window is pretty amazing. In addition to themes and track colors, you can choose meter colors, highlight color, and adjust the saturation and brightness of your track colors.

I use QuicKeys to try out a couple dozen track colors in a very short time, what with the double-trigger (sticky triggers) available on QuicKeys, making all your shortcuts recyclable so that you can use the same shortcuts for many things, depending on the 1st trigger.

It's unbelievable that MOTU gave us all this control! And I'm referring to the themes themselves at this point. You can replace any of the graphic elements of your interface with ones that you've colored, reshaped, or changed to suit you. If you want to go deep, Andy long ago published a chart of resources you can change, with highlighted elements shown in pictures so that you know what resources change what elements. I'm sure there's more he knows that we will probably never fully know, but anyone who wants to do what Andy does can certainly have a whack at it. YMMV!

Shooshie

Shooshie wrote:It's unbelievable that MOTU gave us all this control! And I'm referring to the themes themselves at this point. You can replace any of the graphic elements of your interface with ones that you've colored, reshaped, or changed to suit you. If you want to go deep, Andy long ago published a chart of resources you can change, with highlighted elements shown in pictures so that you know what resources change what elements
Shooshie

OK, talk to me like I'm 4.

I've gone in there and seen the resources, etc. But I'm just not able to affect the changes I want to.. it's just not easy enough. Sorry, I'm an idiot.

I just want to change a few things on certain themes.. like, I have "Night", one of Andy's. It's pretty complete in 8, but I want to "finish" it, by making the transport correct. I've tried a few times, with more failure than success.. I would love to be able to make "Night" become more "Day" in some areas, but I don't know how. I can't spend my time learning because I'm a working composer, not a stylist.

I really like "The Night Man Cometh", but wish all the backgrounds were a little brighter, and that the mixing desk was more like "Night" (which looks more like my actual console!).

I'm in the midst of a two-year-long experiment on which light temperature (K) is, creatively speaking, best for my studio.. I have so many LED 20 par lights in here, its insane. But it matters.. Likewise with the theme. I want to bond instantly with it, I want it to be a match. No disrespect to all the parties involved, but.. I haven't found it yet. I want to make my own.. but I want it to take the top-down approach.. I want to design the components myself, via "Mix and Match." Needs to be easy. I would pay (reasonably) for it.

Gotta make it stupid easy, this is music.

I wonder how hard it would be to get MOTU to allow different color settings for the TO and the SE. One doesn't necessarily work for the other. I LOVE the SE set up like this...



But I don't think it looks that great in the TO...



I'd even go so far to say that MIDI should have a separate setup, much like we have different backgrounds for audio versus MIDI in the SE.

Never mind. I love it. The distinction between tracks and the flow of the eye from identifying what's on the track list to editing area is better than ever now.

Would you mind posting your color settings?

Geez, I'm still figuring how to deal with image sizes on this retina monster.

amplidood wrote:

Geez, I'm still figuring how to deal with image sizes on this retina monster.

Always wanted MOTU to put a numerical value to the right of those sliders so we could exactly reproduce our settings should we forget them someday.

James Steele wrote:

amplidood wrote:

Geez, I'm still figuring how to deal with image sizes on this retina monster.

Always wanted MOTU to put a numerical value to the right of those sliders so we could exactly reproduce our settings should we forget them someday.

I take a screen shot of my settings like that. Then I can pull it up in QuickLook in the Finder, and match it pretty closely. I also make a screenshot of the names of my hard drives. My cat has changed the names of drives on several occasions (devastating to iTunes, iPhoto, and other apps with a library, and possibly aliases), so I pull up the picture (which rests in the first level of the hard drive, alongside the applications, system, and library folders) and make sure I spell all the names exactly like they were. Screenshots can serve as records of many preferences and settings.

Shooshie

Screenshot gurus here too. Saved us on MANY occasions!

I have to say that, by a mile, DP is my absolute favorite DAW to work with interface-wise and organizationally. Since getting this new laptop with the Retina Screen, I have really come to appreciate how well thought out the app is. Other apps are maybe more efficient with the CPU, offer different perspectives of sound, etc, but... every time I boot up DP with my GUI my eyes just go "aaaaaaaaaah". I still have to work in multiple DAWs for my own perfectionist/ADD/inspirational issues, but I think that makes me appreciate the time I do spend there even more.

Awesome Andy!

I also have to say, using this new inverted color scheme for my track colors has completely changed how DP feels to me. My eyes have never been more relaxed, and it's never been easier for me to see at a glance what's going on.

There's a new high contrast variation of Mellow coming...