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Customizing
Coloring parts and events
There are two ways to color parts and events in the
Project window:
Using the color selector
1. Select the desired parts or events.
2. Choose a color from the Color Selector in the toolbar.
Using the Color tool
1. On the toolbar, select the Color tool.
2. Click the small strip below it to bring up the color pal-
ette.
3. Select a color.
4. Click on a part/event to assign the color.
The color is applied to all selected parts/events and over-
rides the track color (if used).
• If you press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click on a part/event
with the Color tool, the color palette is displayed and you
can choose the desired color for an event.
• If you press [Alt]/[Option], the Color tool cursor becomes
a pipette, which can be used to select a color by clicking on
a part/event.
Customizing the event background
On the Event Display page in the Preferences dialog, you
can find the option “Colorize Event Background”.
This option affects the display of events in the Project
window.
• When this is activated, the events and parts in the event
display will have the selected background color.
• When this is deactivated, the event “content”, e.g. MIDI
events and audio waveforms, are displayed in the selected
color and the event background is gray.
The Event Colors dialog
You can open the Event Colors dialog in two ways:
• Double-click the small strip below the Color tool.
• Open the Color pop-up menu on the toolbar and select
“Select Colors…”.
In the Event Colors dialog, you can fully customize the
color palette, apart from the default color (gray).
To add new colors to the color palette, proceed as follows:
1. Click the Insert New Color button in the Event Colors
section to add a new color.
A new color icon and color name are added to the Event Colors section.
2. Click the color field next to the name field to activate
the new color for editing.
3. In the Standard Colors section, select the standard
color. You can modify the selected color as follows:
• Drag the cursor to another point in the color circle.
• Move the handle in the color meter.
• Enter the values for red, green and blue and hue, saturation
and luminosity manually.
Remove Selected Color Increase/decrease intensity
for all colors
This Set As
Default Set
Increase/decrease brightness
for all colors
Insert New
Color
Use Default Set