Color Toolbar Editor















 

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The Color Toolbar Editor provides all the features available in docked mode and direct access to the Color Toolbar panel used to configure everything associated with the Conform process, moving names/keywords and creating your custom colors. Custom colors are available in slots 49-96 as well as "No Match and Channel Type colors in slots 97-102. Here's the details for how it works.

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General Operation

• Menu Choices

  • New Setup: Load a clean setup of factory default colors without any names or keywords and provides an easy database driven approach for assigning name/keywords to color slots based on matches found via the factory default name/keywords. 

  • Save Setup: Saves the current colors, names and keywords to "ctsetup.txt" as your default. Option settings are saved to "_settings".

  • Color Presets: Provides an easy way to fill your custom colors with colors available in other DAWs.

  • Export Setup: Export the current colors, names and keywords with a different file name as a backup or to share with others.

  • Import:

    • Import Setup: Import from another setup file (including earlier v2 releases) to replace the current colors, names, and keywords.

    • Import Colors: Import colors from another setup file to replace the current colors.

    • Import Names: Load names and keywords from another setup file to replace the current names and keywords.
       

  • Setup Tools:

    • Edit User Setup File: Provides access to the local text editor, for editing your names and keywords to match your genre or workflow.​

    • Reload User Setup: After using "Edit User Setup File" you need to run this to update the changes made back into Color Toolbar.

    • Edit User Icon File: Provides access to the local text editor for editing your icon assignments. You will see the following prompt when clicking on this menu item. Here's an example showing how to add and assign a color and icon for a unique vocal track named "My Singing Bird". 
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
       

    • Reload User Icons (Verify Keyword Integrity): After using "Edit User Icon File" you need to run this to update the changes made back into Color Toolbar. It also verifies that keywords in ctsetup.txt and icons.txt match. A popup alert appears if there is a mismatch with error results sent to Studio One's menu: View/Additional Views/Messages.  

    • Open User Data Folder: Open file manager to the default Color Toolbar folder location where "ctsetup.txt" and "_settings" files are located. These files store your custom colors, names, keywords and option settings and can be viewed and edited with a text editor.

    • Load Factory Default Colors/Names/Icons: Reset the colors, names, keywords and icon back to the default factory values and settings.

    • Reset ALL Color, Icons, Locks and Filter Groups: Reset or "Undo" all the Colors, Icons, Locks and Filter Groups back to default for all your channels and tracks.

• Conform: [Conform] colors all tracks, channels, events and arranger sections based on the names and keywords you have assigned. It has a command action named "Track | Conform Colors" that can be bound to a keyboard shortcut. Please refer to the "Conform Block Diagram" logic for what and how channels, tracks and arranger sections get colored.

• No Match: All tracks that do not match any names or keywords will conform to the "No Match" color. The RGB Hex (000000-FFFFFF), HSL values and sliders allow you to create and set your custom "No Match" color.

• Type: If any of the Bus, FX, VCA, Aux or Instr boxes are checked they will conform to their designated colors. These channel types are enabled when checked. The RGB Hex (000000-FFFFFF), HSL values and sliders allow you to create and set your custom color for each of these.

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  • "Load Icons" (Studio One 6) during a Conform when enabled.

  • "Filter+ Mode On" option enables filters to be additive which is "On" by default after a Conform.

  • "Conform Arranger Track" option when enabled allows coloring the Arranger Track during a Conform. 

  • "Lock Manual Colors" - Adds a leading "+" character to channel/track names when manually coloring selecting channels. This prevents Conform from coloring or adding icons to these channels.

  • "Reset Selected" - Select these channels and click "Reset" to remove the "+" character.

• Help: Provides easy access to the online Help section on the Color Toolbar website. Here you'll find Color Toolbar video tutorials and documentation.

• Slots 1-96: These slots are where you add, edit and store your Name/Keywords. Colors in slots 49-96 can be manually customized or updated by importing colors or selecting a color preset in the Color Toolbar menu.

• Slots 97-102: These slots are assigned to "No Match" and each of the Channel Type options. These colors can also be customized.

• Name: This is where the name is displayed for an instrument, instrument group, arranger section, filter prefix or channel types when you click on the slot name (or number) to add or edit Name/Keywords. Filter prefix type names include 1 or 2 characters (a-z) followed by a “.” or “:”. Matching is not case sensitive so entering upper or lower case is acceptable.

  • Instrument Group: (Example: Drums, v.Vocals, Strings)

  • Instrument: (Example: Kick, Snare, Violin)

  • Arranger Section: (Example: Intro, Verse, Chorus)

• Keywords: This is where you enter matching keywords or phrases to associate with a name. Click the slot name (or number) to enter or edit keywords. Each word or phrase must be separated by a comma which adheres to the CSV (comma-separated values) industry standard. Example: Kick, Kick In, Snare, Snare Top, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass.

• Cut Name/Paste Name: Provides an easy way to move Name/Keywords from one slot to another.

• ​Darken/Lighten 1-48: Allows you to incremental darken or lighten the standard colors (1-48) palette.

• Copy Color/Paste Color with Name Option: Allows you to copy a color (with or without Name/Keywords) from any slot to slots 49-96).

• Edit Color: The Color Editor provides an easy way to create your 54 custom colors located in slots 49-102. These can be entered as a RGB Hex number (000000-FFFFFF) or by HSL entering Hue (0-360), Sat% (0-100), Lum% (0-100) values or the Sliders.

• Reset: Reset allows to to revert the color you're editing back to it's previous color.

• Events: Toggle this on to color selected events. Its command "Track |Toggle Event Coloring" can be bound to a keyboard shortcut.

• Tint: Use the [Tint] button to generate incremental levels of tint to multiple selected tracks. This starts with the current selected color and those that follow with lighter tints of the color. This is useful for example, with an orchestra section, group of singers, or drums.

• Shade: Use the [Shade] button to generate incremental levels of shade to multiple selected tracks. This starts with the current selected color and those that follow with darker shades of the color. This is useful for example, with an orchestra section, group of singers, or drums.

• Gradient: Use the [Gradient] button to generate incremental levels of 2 color gradients to multiple selected channels/tracks. This begins with selecting a Start color followed by incremental blends of the selected End color. This is useful for example, with an orchestra section, group of singers, or drums.