| Re: Changing your PARIS colour scheme using Paris.dat [message #104773 is a reply to message #104772] |
Sun, 14 February 2010 10:28   |
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We can't get at the innards of the program to make colours "stick" to segments. We can work within the following constraints: audio segments have two generic colours (selected and unselected, ie tan and red, which we can edit), waveforms have two generic default colours (selected and unselected, also editable) and sixteen "coloured" values (editable) determined by their track number (or alternately their instrument assignment in Free Form).
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They can still be made to be more useful than they currently are. For example, they don't have to be sixteen discrete waveform colours, there might be better options. We might be stuck with colours-per-track instead of colour-per-segment, but we can certainly make that work better for us. Instead of this hodgepodge...
Track 1 Colour A
Track 2 Colour B
Track 3 Colour C
Track 4 Colour D
Track 5 Colour E
Track 6 Colour F
Track 7 Colour G
etc.
...the colours could be re-assigned to help pick out stereo pairs like this...
Track 1 Colour A
Track 2 Colour B
Track 3 Colour A
Track 4 Colour B
Track 5 Colour A
Track 6 Colour B
.. and then the "coloured waveform" button serves as a toggle between the default colours or a scheme which helps visually distinguish the L/R sides of each pair.
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Another take on "stereo pairs":
Track 1 Colour A
Track 2 Colour A
Track 3 Colour B
Track 4 Colour B
Track 5 Colour C
Track 6 Colour C
Track 7 Colour D
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Another way to approach it would be to choose two colors, one for Track 1 and one for Track 16, generate a "colour gradient" between them with 16 increments and assign them to tracks. This could be particularly striking with bright colours and black audio objects - for example if Jim tackles the Editor Window bitmaps on his Flame skin I'd create a matching DAT with "yellow" as Track 1 and "orange-red" as Track 16 and do a gradient between them.
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Even the "3D" look of the audio segments in the Editor Window isn't hand-drawn at all - it's actually a clever optical illusion done with different colored lines. Every audio segment in the Editor Window is actually "written" on the screen like this:
Upper Bevel Bottom
Upper Bevel Mid
Upper Bevel High
SEGMENT COLOUR
SEGMENT COLOUR
a picture of the overview (waveform)
taken from the .ovw file is then
drawn here in the chosen waveform colour
SEGMENT COLOUR
SEGMENT COLOUR
Lower Bevel High
Lower Bevel Mid
Lower Bevel Bottom
To minimize the "3D" look to get a more Ableton-Live-style "flat" interface, you just tell PARIS to draw more of the lines the same colour...
Upper Bevel Bottom
Upper Bevel Mid
Upper Bevel High
SEGMENT COLOUR
SEGMENT COLOUR
a picture of the overview (waveform)
taken from the .ovw file is then
drawn here in the chosen waveform colour
SEGMENT COLOUR
SEGMENT COLOUR
Lower Bevel High
Lower Bevel Mid
Lower Bevel Bottom
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Hope you can at least get the idea of the potential there from these crude drawings.
"... being bitter is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other guy to die..." - anon
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