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Len, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for the velo mod, it will be helpful!
Also, as you're obviously in to the graphic side of DP, I thought I'd ask you if you have any recommendations about modifying a graphic part of DP that's bugged me since DP 5!
BTW, in the old days, I wrote to both AmpliDood & the french guy, who's name I can't recall, who did the original DP grahpic mods, and asked them if they had any solutions to this? *AT THAT TIME*, neither did. Anyway, here goes....
I'm referring to the Graphic (piano-roll) Editor (GE) and the graphic representations of notes. My problem is with the contrast (or lack thereof) between (a.) the color of the notes and (b.) the color of the GE background.
Now, as DP has 64(?) assignable track colors, I almost always use up all 64 in an orchestral template.
Now, if a particular "theme" that I'm using has a "light" color, the background of the Graphic Editor will be "light" and that's fine for tracks using "dark" colors (black, blue, purple, etc.), that will then produce "dark" colored notes. But, "lighter" colored notes (white, yellow, pink, etc.) will virtually disappear on the "light" background of the GE. And the same, in reverse, if I use a "dark" theme = dark GE background and dark colored notes disappear.
So that's it. THe more I think of it, the more I wonder if there really is any way (short of offering more colors) to get around this? Or maybe offer the option of "borders" on the graphic representation of the notes?
I just thought I'd get your (and any other) thoughts on this.
And again, thanks for the Velo mod!
DP 9.52(OS 10.13.6), PTools 11.3.3, Sibelius 2021.12,
MacPro 5,1 mid-2010, 2 x 2.93Ghz 12 core, ATI Radeon HD 5870, 64 Gig RAM, 4 x >120G SSDs, 2 x 25" LCDs
couple o' hardware synths, loadza legal libraries
Kurz Midiboard, MOTU MTP AV
Thanks Willie. I'm not sure if I can help you with contrast of the notes. I must say I'm not an expert like Amplidood.
I know that you can change the colours of the backgrounds of the GE in every theme. Would that help? F.e. if you load my MoTools theme (in the first post) and switch it back and forth with the original DP MoTools theme you'll see the changes.
Could you may be post a screenshot of what you mean?
Cheers
Len
- Len DAW Mac Pro 6-core 2013 | 64Gb RAM | 10.11.6 | Metric Halo ULN-8
DP 9.5 | VE Pro 6 | Kontakt 5
OLB wrote:I know that you can change the colours of the backgrounds of the GE in every theme. Would that help?
nah, I don't think so.... with a theme that created a "dark" background, "dark" notes (produced by selecting a "dark" track color) would still get very hard to see... same thing in reverse with a theme that produced a "light" background.
Sorry, AFAIK I can't "attach" anything here, but maybe in a PM, I can?
DP 9.52(OS 10.13.6), PTools 11.3.3, Sibelius 2021.12,
MacPro 5,1 mid-2010, 2 x 2.93Ghz 12 core, ATI Radeon HD 5870, 64 Gig RAM, 4 x >120G SSDs, 2 x 25" LCDs
couple o' hardware synths, loadza legal libraries
Kurz Midiboard, MOTU MTP AV
williemyers wrote:Now, if a particular "theme" that I'm using has a "light" color, the background of the Graphic Editor will be "light" and that's fine for tracks using "dark" colors (black, blue, purple, etc.), that will then produce "dark" colored notes. But, "lighter" colored notes (white, yellow, pink, etc.) will virtually disappear on the "light" background of the GE. And the same, in reverse, if I use a "dark" theme = dark GE background and dark colored notes disappear.
Here's one way to deal with that:
1) Go into DP's preferences
2) Choose the "Track Colors" preference pane under the "Display" heading
3) Uncheck the box next to "In MIDI Editor"
Your MIDI notes will all appear black/grey from then on.
If you want you can do further down the list under the "Editing" header and choose the "MIDI Editing" preference pane and uncheck (if not already) the option "Shade notes using velocity" which may make things even easier to see.
