Mixer color...

[Thomas]

According to Greg in another thread, the Acoustica team was not finished designing the light theme in MC 9 at time of release, and intends to release an update that will effect the mixer.

Regarding snapshots, it looks like it can be useful. Going by certain comments from others (I'm not a programmer), this feature upgrade will be a large undertaking and we may not see this until MC X comes around.

[Pthetitan]

Just wanna say I agree about the mixer colors being the whole track. The colors at the bottom are ok but full track colors would be great.

[Acoustica Greg]

According to Greg in another thread, the Acoustica team was not finished designing the light theme in MC 9 at time of release, and intends to release an update that will effect the mixer.

Hi,

It just makes the light theme mixer lighter. The current light theme had the regular mixer artwork.


Greg

[jlouvar]

Regarding snapshots, it looks like it can be useful. Going by certain comments from others (I'm not a programmer), this feature upgrade will be a large undertaking and we may not see this until MC X comes around.

Yeah, I’m sure it would be a much larger undertaking... But it would be totally awesome with automation recall too. Acoustica could call it “Mix Recall”. Hoping for MC 9.x. Pro digital hardware mixing consoles have this feature.

[Reactorone]

Yeah, I’m sure it would be a much larger undertaking... But it would be totally awesome with automation recall too. Acoustica could call it “Mix Recall”. Hoping for MC 9.x. Pro digital hardware mixing consoles have this feature.

Good idea and very useful indeed.

[sjwatson]

As a software developer and a Mixcraft user, I can see both sides of the color argument. There is always a limited number of resources (people, money, time) and an ever-growing list of features that different users place a different value on. The Mixcraft Product Owner has to make decisions on how to get the most bang for the buck given the resource restrictions that exist. However, I would very much disagree that color is a waste of valuable time. The ability to add color in multiple ways is inside the DAW is a huge productivity and organizational tool. The attached image shows another DAW's use of color which allows the mixing engineer to quickly see what is going on and locate problem areas on the timeline because they are a different color than the rest of the track (in this example light blue indicates problems):

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So in the image above you have track colors that extend to the entirety of the track, color region headers which extend the width of the region, and the ability to color specific clips on a track. This makes it super easy to differentiate drum tracks from bass tracks from vocals etc, highlight verses and chorus with headers along the timeline, and denote tricky bits within each track, all which can make the actual mix go much faster.

[rickp]

Really good idea if we could color the mixer like that. Would be a great add on.

[squeakie]

Yes yes yes yes and yes!!!! This is exactly what I suggested in a post not long ago. It’s actually pretty common in other DAWS to have the mixer and the channel strip be the color, and not just the bottom portion.

For those of you that don’t do extensive VST work, I can see how you may not care, but if you’re writing a film score composition, music for advertisement production, or anything that requires orchestral VST’s, it’s much easier “visually” when grouping sections of specific parts. It’s not uncommon to run separate instances of a VST just to have each articulations within a sound split up individually by tracks. One sound can have 10 or more KS articulations, and putting each articulation on a separate track is pretty common, and the mixer color suggestion would be great.

Sqk