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Customizing
This offers you several options for automatically assigning
colors to tracks that are added to the project. The follow-
ing options are available:
Coloring tracks, parts, or events manually
You can color each track, part, or event in the Project win-
dow individually by using the Select Colors pop-up menu
on the toolbar. Parts and events can also be colored using
the Color tool.
About the Select Colors pop-up menu
1. In the Project window, select the item that you want to
color.
You can select tracks, parts, or events.
2. On the toolbar, open the “Select Colors” pop-up
menu and select a color.
If parts or events are selected, the color is applied to these parts and
events. To change the color of a track, no events or parts must be se
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lected on that track.
Ö When you change the color of a track, the new color
will be used for all events on the track and for the corre
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sponding channel strip in the Mixer. However, if you have
assigned a different color to individual parts or events,
these will not follow color changes of the track any longer.
• To reset the color of a track, part, or event, select the
corresponding item and choose the “Default Color” option
from the “Select Colors” pop-up menu.
About the Color tool
1. Open the Select Colors pop-up menu and select a
color.
2. On the toolbar, select the Color tool.
3. Click on the desired parts and events to assign the
color.
The color is applied to the parts and events and overrides the track color.
• If you press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click on a part/event
with the Color tool, a color palette is displayed allowing
you to select a color for the event.
• If you press [Alt]/[Option], the Color tool cursor be-
comes a pipette, which can be used to select the current
color of a part/event in order to apply it to another part/
event.
About the Similar Tracks options
You can use the selected color of one track to colorize
other tracks of the same type (e. g. all audio tracks).
Set up the desired color for a track of a certain track type
and right-click this track in the track list to open a context
menu. Depending on your settings and selections you can
choose one of the following options:
• Use Color for Similar Tracks
When you select this, all tracks of the same type get the same color.
• Use Color for Similar Selected Tracks
Use this to apply the same color to tracks within a selection. The color of
the topmost track in the selection is then applied to other tracks of the
same type within the selection.
Option Effect
Use Default
Event Color
The default color (gray) is assigned.
Use Previous
Track Color
Analyzes the color of the selected track and uses the
same color for the new track.
Use Previous
Track Color
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Analyzes the color of the selected track and uses the color
that comes next in the color palette for the new track.
Use Last
Applied Color
Uses the color that is selected in the Select Colors pop-
up menu.
Use Random
Track Color
Uses the color palette as a basis to assign track colors
randomly.