Starship Krupa

TODG has determined that as of now, there's no known way to change the color of the Transport readout numerals. The only solution is to use a lighter color for the window background, which is set by Overrides/Transport Module/Display/Background. Foreground only sets the color for the smaller ones in the row at the bottom of the window.

I've met @Backlinejoe. He's a veteran roadie, a dude who's traveled every highway in the US, big and small. Haulin', loadin' in, settin' up, breakin' down, loadin' out, and haulin' again. He's got stories, many of which would violate the forum rules. He's seen more Anvil cases than he has sit down meals. You don't know his name, but he's worked with 'em all, from the biggest ever to the never big. He once knew where to cop in every major city in the US, now he knows the best NA meetings in every major city in the US. You never want to wrap cable near him unless you know how to wrap cable. COVID-19 lockdown reminded him of why he chose the life of a rock 'n' roll nomad, he's just not suited to stay in one place that long. The first tour bus he boarded after it ended felt like going home. He got his first email address in the mid '80's before most of the world had ever heard the word "Internet" or knew what a modem did. He and the rest of the crew used to take turns with the one Compaq portable they had between them and he had the address of every artist relations rep, booking agency, and talent rep who had one. The Compaq made him a solid PC man, and he got the first version of Cakewalk that would do audio and has used it in some form for all his board recordings ever since. Late at night when the people are gone he likes to pick up his bass guitar, and play a song with a funky groove that is real as the day is long. That's Backline Joe, long may he run until he takes off to the great gig in the sky in the Rolling truck Stones thing that's been parked outside, waiting, his whole career.

Which the idea of doing would make me groan if I hadn't stumbled on Modules Manager.... ....which, nope, no shortcut on either of my systems although thanks to Arda Demir I now do notice the gear icon down in the lower right corner of the standalone. Second time in my life I've ever run the standalone, I prefer doing it all inside the DAW.

How odd. So far there are 17 people who have either Liked, Thanked, or Great Idea'd my first post on this topic. Maybe a couple more who have commented without first reacting. I'm assuming that most of them didn't know about this utility either before I called it to their attention. I wonder how many people got the shortcut and how many didn't. Any T-RackS users who are still following the conversation, did you get the Start menu shortcut? Now I want to double check those other systems I was so sure also didn't get the shortcut. I don't want to accuse IK Multimedia of trying to obscure their own utility unless they are, y'know, trying to obscure their own utility.😄 Usually if anything, it's hard to get installers NOT to slap shortcuts all over the place, Start menu, desktop, whatever. Peeve of mine, actually, installers that don't bother to ask whether you want to clutter your desktop with links to their program(s). I thought it was kinda weird that IK would go to all the trouble to come up with this thing and then bury it, but now I look and I don't have a link to the T-RackS standalone either.

The Old Dude's Guide To Color Themes says that Surface 2 foreground sets the color of the Now Time cursor line. Surface 2 is the biggest example of a palette that needs to have its functions split up, IMO. It controls too many disparate elements.

Interesting, you seem to mostly use Ableton Live and Reason. Were you once a SONAR/CbB user or did you discover the forum in some other way? I think there are some people on here who have never touched a Cakewalk product.

I agree. It's just not granular enough. I'd like to see a set of palettes for each of the major views. The categories it has now are actually a good start, it's just that they affect unrelated elements. Please, folks, hit this as hard as you can, because once it's actually released, any changes will likely break previous custom themes. The devs won't want to do that. I think it will be different from the Theme Editor of old, this one is created by the developers themselves and they'll be using it to create the factory themes.

For those who don't know how to do this, the feature is accessible in Synth Rack. Alt+9 to open Synth Rack, then hover the name of the instrument.

I trust our dedicated .STH lords will give it a thorough assessment. So far the biggest issues I have with it are that there is STILL no way to set the color of beat and measure grid lines 🤬 and that too many of the element colors are tied to other disparate elements. That is, when you change one element, it affects something in a completely different area of the UI, and not necessarily something that you wanted to have match.

I think this was @Noel Borthwick's baby. Noel, any insights?

They didn't put it in my Start Menu, which is why I gave the full path in my original post. This is on two Windows systems, one Windows 10 and the other Windows 11. I'd like to see your video when it's done.

The ones you get when you hover the name of the plug-in in the FX bin: It's a percentage, but of what? Is this explained in more detail in the documentation somewhere? I couldn't find anything.

When I got SampleTank 4 MAX a year and change ago, Product Manager installed and authorized Miroslav Philharmonik 2 correctly. Also Syntronik 2 and SampleTron 2. Product Manager isn't perfect, it still has a way to go, but it at least now does what it was created to do. I still ran into big problems when installing SampleTank 4 MAX. I wound up with multiple copies of some libraries and missed about 1/3 of the content I was entitled to. Part of it was that I didn't understand that so much of SampleTank 4 MAX v2 consisted of separate products and add-on content that were otherwise sold separately. I wound up writing a tutorial on installing SampleTank 4 MAX that helps ensure that all of the content was installed correctly with no duplication. When your end users have to write tutorials for each other on how to install your products, that seems like a sign that your install process needs work. They seem to be listening regarding installation issues. Some of their moves may be baffling, but they're at least improving the installation and authorization process.

To paraphrase a great movie, "forget it, Eusebio, it's IK Multimedia."😁 Really, though, at least in the past year or so, Product Manager has come into its own as the unified solution it was originally intended to be. I haven't fired up Authorization Manager in a long time. I no longer have any Custom Shops installed. So I have to hand it to them, they are cleaning up their act. And yes, I had the same impression about there being competing interests within the company coming up with Modules Manager. The ones who pay attention to customer/forum gripes and the ones who think it's good marketing to keep cluttering your plug-in collection with unlicensed demo FX. The fact that I had to stumble across Modules Manager, that it's not even included in the IK Multimedia Start Menu folder, suggests that someone doesn't like it.

Oh man, me too. I didn't realize how much I was going to like it when I picked it up in the previous IK HB. The way you can combine components from whatever models you happen to have is crazy. The controls for string age, picking style, pickup position, active vs. passive electronics, it's possible to put together just what I want. I had underestimated both of the MODO instruments. MODO Drums is a similar laboratory for drum sounds. The ability to combine different kit pieces to assemble what you want is brilliant. Like most drummers, I'm picky about my snare sound.