Iro: Track Color Pack for Cubase

On the left hand side of your track (to the left of its name) in the project window, press ALT + Mouse. The colours are displayed horizontally as before. That works for the whole track, but if you want to change the colour of just 1 part in your trackā€¦, well Iā€™m not at my music rig at the moment.

Thanks Seyoum - great bit of work.

Neil B

Thanks a lot for the feedaback guys. Itā€™s really great to see you enjoy it so much. And I am glad you are helping each other out.

I believe the color codes in the XML are probably RGBA written in C. But basically there is no magic to this. I actually made all the colors inside cubase. I am most certanly no l33t haxor dude! :stuck_out_tongue: If you want to edit colors or add new ones I think the easiest way is to do it inside Cubase.

This is fantastic, so wonderful! Much love to you :smiley:

Please share, post or linkā€¦weā€™d love to add these colors, as well!

Hi,

and Thanks seyoum for explore to push the XML, and itā€™s work fine. I copie 32 Slots and change my own Colors, cool, Thank U.
[Before any Time i post (in german Forum) a Wish for a bit more Colors, but no Reaction from Steinbergā€¦], now iā€™m Happyā€¦ for this Point.

(Sorry for my bad english),
Uli S.

Great Mod, thank you for this.
Most useful. :smiley:

Thanks seyoum great stuff!!!

The German version is available here: Iro: Track Color Pack fĆ¼r Cubase - Cubase - Steinberg Forums
Translated by The*Smiler

I think the popularity of this thread demonstrates how much people would like to
have the ability to customize more/certain aspects of their chosen DAW.

Hint hintā€¦

Thanks a ton Seyoum!

I started doing my own using similar variations of the 16 stock ones and got up to about 28 or so.

But this is great.

Thanks muchly!!!

Seyoum has been extremely generous by sharing his knowledge with the communityā€¦and I thank him!

Others have added additional colors to their color scheme but are not sharing them with us!

Does anyone else want to share their colors, as well? Or possibly explain how itā€™s done, so we can all jump in and help the community?

Sure, Iā€™ll chime back in, as Iā€™ve done this myself.

I havenā€™t altered any lately, so I have none to share that top what Seyoum has provided, but we can all continue either from using his or the stock ones.

  1. In the toolbar at the very top, right click in the drop down menu and check ā€˜Color Menuā€™ [if not done already].

It will appear as a grey box with a small down arrow at the right of it.
[If you have ā€˜Show Tipsā€™ selected in the ā€˜Generalā€™ section of the Preferences, it will show ā€˜Select Colorsā€™ when you hover your mouse over it.]

  1. Click on that down arrow & the drop down menu will display ā€˜Default Colorā€™ [to click on to change the current track color], followed by all the colors currently available, followed by ā€˜Project Colorsā€¦ā€™ down at the bottom.

  2. Click ā€˜Project Colorsā€¦ā€™ and it will expand.

  3. If you click on any existing color, a color palette window opens whereby you can drag to a new shade or tone vs. the ā€˜Current Colorā€™ and click ā€˜New Colorā€™, and it will then be saved as is.

  4. Otherwise, if you click on ā€˜Optionsā€™ at the bottom, another menu pops up.

  5. Click ā€˜Append New Colorā€™, and a white box named ā€˜New Colorā€™ will be added at the bottom. [You could also click on ā€˜Insert New Color Before Selectionā€™ to place it elsewhere.]

  6. Click on the white box to shade it any color you like using the color palette.

  7. Click ā€˜New Colorā€™.

  8. Click to the right to rename it, ie: Piano, Guitar if you like color consistency between projects. That way you wonā€™t have to guess or remember what you used before. :confused:

  9. Click to the right of the new name to continue on with others or click ā€˜OKā€™.

*However, ā€˜OKā€™ only saves this for the current song [project].

Soā€¦instead,

  1. Click ā€˜Save Current Set As Program Defaultsā€™.

One of the other options is ā€˜Load Program Defaults To Current Setā€™ to use with other projects.

Itā€™s a good idea to set up a song [project] template with this as well.

That should do it.

HTH

James

jamusic
Thanks for sharing and being so kind to taking the time to explain the procedure, it was more than anticipated!

This must demonstrate a character flawā€¦imagine, some one interested In sharing his knowledge and abilities with others for no personal gain, holy cow

Long live 1969! Seyoum, you are one of a very few ā€¦thanks man.

Hahaha Sharing is caringā€¦ :stuck_out_tongue:

Youā€™re very welcome!

Thank you Sayoum, I have downloaded and put into a template your beautiful colors - much appreciated!

Really nice Seyoum!

Colors look even richer once loaded into the DAW.

Thanks again.

Thanks Seyoum!

Itā€™s great to people from the Cubase community freely offering their wisdom to each other! From the responses you can see how appreciated it is!

Thanks Seyoum! I really appreciate your gift to the community. :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: