Old 11-17-2018, 11:43 AM   #1
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Default VU Color Tweaks = No Color Change(?)

Currently using INQUASAR Dark Matter - great work IVL Nørdum.

I've been messing a bit in the Tweaker with the VU meter colors:



1. No color changes I make seem to effect any change in actual meter colors. What step am I missing?

2. What's the difference between, say, "Low signal" and "VU meter bottom"; "Hot signal" and "VU meter top", etc?
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Old 11-18-2018, 06:50 AM   #2
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1. No color changes I make seem to effect any change in actual meter colors. What step am I missing?
If the theme uses VU meter strip images, they will override the theme tweaker settings. Rename or remove these images if you want to change the colors with the theme tweaker;
meter_strip_h.png
meter_strip_v.png
meter_strip_v_rms.png
meter_strip_v_rms2.png

(Walter; A Themer's Guide pg. 30-31)

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2. What's the difference between, say, "Low signal" and "VU meter bottom"; "Hot signal" and "VU meter top", etc?
Afaik, bottom, middle and top colors are for the meter background, VU (indicator) signal colors are for the active meters.
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ello- i think that applies to the fx colours?



dunno.
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Old 12-09-2018, 07:51 AM   #4
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ello- i think that applies to the fx colours?
dunno.
This applies to WALTERED meter elements that are too small to correctly display an actual VU meter. Say 10x10 px....set your meter to this size and you will get a mono solid color indicator only, low, med, high signals respectively.

See the 'Audiogram' theme.
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Old 12-09-2018, 09:29 AM   #5
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lol ok Never,at least you replied in some way.
most on these forums seem to just ignore suggestions,or even solutions i try to make=fine.
how on earth is anybody to know that info though?
reaper is not for dummies,obviously.
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how on earth is anybody to know that info though?
Well, they could go to the theme forum and read the sticky called 'Common tweaks to a REAPER theme', for a start.
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Well, they could go to the theme forum and read the sticky called 'Common tweaks to a REAPER theme', for a start.
As in, "Tweak: Making meter colours editable"? Now there's an idea. I should have looked first. I mistakenly figured that if it was in the "Tweaker", it wouldn't require delving into the unzipped theme file. I figured wrong.

Thanks for the tip - sorry for unnecessarily taking up this space. Move along, folks - 'show's over.
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Don't apologise, its important to remember two things:
  1. Increasing the amount of theme-ability in Reaper has always been the thing that most users would benefit from, rather than making it an easy, user facing functionality. And still is; most users just use themes, they don't dig around in them, so I'm sure if asked they'd prefer that more parts of Reaper were turned over to theme makers for polish.
  2. Backwards compatibility is a key Reaper principle, so if you like a theme from years ago, you should still (more or less) be able to use it with modern Reaper.

What that translates to is there being many historic layers of theming functionality, which each theme may use more or less of, dating right the way back to the birth or Reaper, and none of it created with the first intent of being casual-user-friendly. So its difficult, its always going to be difficult, but that difficulty, though regrettable, has come about for good reasons.

Its a tricky road, so its always right to ask for directions.
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heh-yes it is!
can you put us on the yellowish brick road to >w.t imperial v5 please?!
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