Changing mixer meter colour

[jjuhkam]

Hi!
I'v been looking for a way to change the meter colors in mixer.(from blue to green)
I can't just change the colour in the theme editing preferences, because it's coded in the theme file, am I right?
I read that you can change it somehow making the file in the colourtheme folder to a zip file and then tweaking the txt file included. Also in the basic theme guide says that there should be somekind on subfolder for png files, which direct the colours. But all I see in the colour themes folder are the reapertheme files alone, and changing, overwriting them to zip files just makes everything in reaper itself all squarey and ugly.
So, is there a way to change the color without messing with the codes etc?
(PS! I don't wanna change some downloaded themes,which come as a reaperzip files, I like the default 4.0 enough)

[White Tie]

Ok, you've been following the right advice but in the wrong direction.


Here's what you want to do

The 'Theme Editor' in options>preferences only changes the root settings of many themes, which may well have been overridden by higher-level theming inside the theme's rtconfig file. So if you're changing something in there and its not doing anything then that means you're going to need to get your hands a little bit dirty.

If the theme has vu_strip images, those will be overriding the code colours that you want to set in the Theme Editor. By disabling those images (achieved by corrupting their sacred names) they will no longer be functional, and you'll be back to the code meters and their handy colour controls.


Here's how to do it

1) Open your Reaper path by clicking (in Reaper) Options > Show REAPER resource path in finder/explorer. See the 'ColorThemes' folder? Open that. Do it this way, not by searching for 'colourthemes' inside your OS, because you have another folder (the wrong one!) with the same name.

2) Find the 'Default_4.0.ReaperThemeZip' file. Open (open, not extract) this with a zip program, either by doing a 'Open with....' command, or by temporarily renaming it 'Default_4.0.ReaperThemeZip.zip'

3) Open the 'Default_4.0_unpacked' folder.

4) Scroll to the file 'meter_strip_h.png'. Ruin Reaper's ability to find this file by changing its name to something else, like 'meter_strip_h_begone.png'. Do the same with 'meter_strip_v.png'

5) Close your zip program, allowing it to update the archive if it asks. If you changed the name of the .ReaperThemeZip in step 2, change it back now.

6) Refresh the theme in Reaper ( Ctrl+Alt+PGUP then Ctrl+Alt+PGDOWN ). Tada!

You'll now be able to fiddle with the code meter colours to taste.

[jjuhkam]

Thanks, it worked!
But can you tell me how i can change the audio item (region?) from round corners to sharp ?

[Daveinnit]

Thanx White Tie, I been wondering how to change meter colours

[djabthrash]

Originally Posted by White Tie

Here's how to do it

1) Open your Reaper path by clicking (in Reaper) Options > Show REAPER resource path in finder/explorer. See the 'ColorThemes' folder? Open that. Do it this way, not by searching for 'colourthemes' inside your OS, because you have another folder (the wrong one!) with the same name.

2) Find the 'Default_4.0.ReaperThemeZip' file. Open (open, not extract) this with a zip program, either by doing a 'Open with....' command, or by temporarily renaming it 'Default_4.0.ReaperThemeZip.zip'

3) Open the 'Default_4.0_unpacked' folder.

4) Scroll to the file 'meter_strip_h.png'. Ruin Reaper's ability to find this file by changing its name to something else, like 'meter_strip_h_begone.png'. Do the same with 'meter_strip_v.png'

5) Close your zip program, allowing it to update the archive if it asks. If you changed the name of the .ReaperThemeZip in step 2, change it back now.

6) Refresh the theme in Reaper ( Ctrl+Alt+PGUP then Ctrl+Alt+PGDOWN ). Tada!

You'll now be able to fiddle with the code meter colours to taste.

This helped me a ton, even after reading some other threads/posts on the subject, but which were a bit confusing to me.

Something to add though :

STEP 2 : you have to look for the folder that is written in the "image resource path" field in the "Theme Development/tweaker" (that you can access via the actions' menu)

STEP 6 : you can also refresh your theme by selecting another theme in the "options" : 'theme" menu, then reselect your theme (which you must have saved beforehand i guess) via the same menu

[White Tie]

<snip> was talking bollox

[djabthrash]

Originally Posted by White Tie

Presumably you have revived this very old thread because you are using a very old theme. Fair enough Modern themes could do their meters several different ways, so for someone else this advice may or may not be out of date, for instructions please see the stickies of this subforum.

I'm using the default V5 theme actually, which i guess most people who migrated to Reaper 6 still use since the default V6 theme is awful too look at (damn colors).

[White Tie]

Sorry, you're quite right.

I'm guessing you haven't found the colour dimming for the default6 theme ...see the theme adjuster

[djabthrash]

Originally Posted by White Tie

I'm guessing you haven't found the colour dimming for the default6 theme ...see the theme adjuster

Does this make the colors look like the default Reaper 5 theme ?

Because those colors are my only gripe with the default Reaper 6 theme actually.

[lucas_LCS]

Originally Posted by djabthrash

STEP 6 : you can also refresh your theme by selecting another theme in the "options" : 'theme" menu, then reselect your theme (which you must have saved beforehand i guess) via the same menu

If you have the Tweaker open you can just reload the images using the button in the lower right of the tweaker.

Originally Posted by djabthrash

Does this make the colors look like the default Reaper 5 theme ?

Because those colors are my only gripe with the default Reaper 6 theme actually.

Along with the color settings, you can set the layouts to change when the track is selected or Recarm is enabled, or to hide certain buttons, etc.
Try playing around with all the settings in the Adjuster before writing default 6 off.
There are a lot good, useful settings in there.

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[djabthrash]

Originally Posted by lucas_LCS

If you have the Tweaker open you can just reload the images using the button in the lower right of the tweaker.

Alright thank you !
Saw that button but wasn't sure what it would do so i preferred not to use it

Originally Posted by lucas_LCS

Along with the color settings, you can set the layouts to change when the track is selected or Recarm is enabled, or to hide certain buttons, etc.
Try playing around with all the settings in the Adjuster before writing default 6 off.
There are a lot good, useful settings in there.

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Thanks ! You just convinced me to give the Reaper 6 theme a shot

[Joy]

Is there a way to change the colors of the normal meters of tracks and a different color for the auxiliary meters?