The Customising Logic Pro X GUI Colours Thread

[Rkmusic]

How do i just change the levels meters in the mixer.I already have the theme i want but the levels meters are dull green.

[Attracks pilot]

How do i just change the levels meters in the mixer.I already have the theme i want but the levels meters are dull green.

 

Get your inspiration at these two sites:

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/logic-pro-x/857146-custom-logic-x-guis-thread.html

http://logicxinterfaces.wordpress.com

 

Open 'MAResourcesMapping.plist' and navigate to Root => AssetSets => Colors => Mixer. There you'll find four entries: 'ChannelStrip_LevelIndicatorExponential', 'ChannelStrip_LevelIndicatorExponentialOutput', 'ChannelStrip_LevelIndicatorLinear' and 'ChannelStrip_LevelIndicatorLinearOutput'. For each of them you can change the sRGB-values (colors) from 'item 0', 'item 1' ... 'item 4'. These items represent the gradient from bottom to top.

 

Good luck!

[Kim Olesen]

I have made my piano roll quite a bit brighter. There is one thing i can't for my life figure out how to change. The vertical alignment guide that appears in front of the note when i drag it. It's a thin white line but i need to change it to another color. What is the name of that entry?

[Atlas007]

I have made my piano roll quite a bit brighter. There is one thing i can't for my life figure out how to change. The vertical alignment guide that appears in front of the note when i drag it. It's a thin white line but i need to change it to another color. What is the name of that entry?

Playhead maybe?

[JGS]

Any news of someone coming up with a LogicX GUI Customization app or if anyone has posted Logic skins that we non-programmers could simply use?

[vanhaze]

Good question, would be great !

[Attracks pilot]

Any news of someone coming up with a LogicX GUI Customization app or if anyone has posted Logic skins that we non-programmers could simply use?

 

Nope + Yep:

Nope: No app or script so far.

Yep: You can find a couple of skins right here: http://logicxinterfaces.wordpress.com/

[fisherking]

You can find a couple of skins right here: http://logicxinterfaces.wordpress.com/

 

great stuff, thanx for the link!

[Attracks pilot]

[Rkmusic]

Can any one make fatter meters these little meters annoy the crap out me..I love seeing green fat meters bouncing around 8)

O yea and make the faders smaller

[Attracks pilot]

I'm afraid that's not possible, Rkmusic, cause in LPX you can only specify the colors of the meter in a plist. (These are no longer images.) The faders are still images, but I don't know if that will avoid your feeling annoyed.

[Kim Olesen]

Does anybody know how to change the thin white line that appears in front of the note when it's dragged to another color. I can't for my life find the entry in the .plist for the line.

 

[louis.b]

I would just like to change the default AUX channels color to orange so i don't have to do it manually when adding a bus. Is this possible and is so how do i do it?

[Rkmusic]

Thanks attracks.Ill get over it but man how can you mess that up...

[Rkmusic]

Can some one just make me a pro tools fader and meters gui..I just want the fader and meter colors the rest i dont care for

[TBPlayer]

Can some one just make me a pro tools fader and meters gui..I just want the fader and meter colors the rest i dont care for

Maybe this is what you're after

http://logicxinterfaces.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/pro-tools-theme-updated/

[Rkmusic]

i downloaded that one i didnt like the two tone mixer.......I just want the meters and faders

[Spacecat]

Hello BeeJ,

 

I have tried to change my track regions colors to include black,white , & silver. Do you know which of these numbers I should change and which numbers will produce the colors that I want?

 

Regions

01

LineColor

sRGBColor:{ 0, 128, 0, 100}

LineColorSelected

sRGBColor:{ 0, 255, 0, 100}

LineColorMuted

GrayColor:{15,100}

BaseHue

14

[Kim Olesen]

Hello BeeJ,

 

I have tried to change my track regions colors to include black,white , & silver. Do you know which of these numbers I should change and which numbers will produce the colors that I want?

 

Regions

01

LineColor

sRGBColor:{ 0, 128, 0, 100}

LineColorSelected

sRGBColor:{ 0, 255, 0, 100}

LineColorMuted

GrayColor:{15,100}

BaseHue

14

 

What you are trying to do is sadly not possible.

[quis.verior]

Million thanks to all the contributors to this topic. Keep it going guys..

 

I am red-green color blind.. when I saw the color chooser in Logic Pro - with no hint on what color or shade they are - I felt so sad.. I have to use third party color pickers to know what color it is or bother someone nearby

 

While 7 to 10 % population is red-green color blind ( http://www.colour-blindness.com/general/prevalence/ ), we have designed the world from traffic signals to sound engineering software using green for OK and red for danger!

 

So, thanks to the kind hearts who brought this subject knowledge of customizing GUI colors.

[Bengtfalke]

Are any of the lighter themes retina ready?

[sjazz1]

Hello BeeJ,

 

I have tried to change my track regions colors to include black,white , & silver. Do you know which of these numbers I should change and which numbers will produce the colors that I want?

 

Regions

01

LineColor

sRGBColor:{ 0, 128, 0, 100}

LineColorSelected

sRGBColor:{ 0, 255, 0, 100}

LineColorMuted

GrayColor:{15,100}

BaseHue

14

 

What you are trying to do is sadly not possible.

 

It is possible to create Black track headers/regions. It's a workaround solution: create a black track header on a track in Logic 9, then import that track into Logic X (command-I) - the black colour bar will import with the track. White can't be imported, as the white bar in Logic 9 defaults to the background grey (unlike the region), and be aware the black colour covers the white track number writing...

[jbw]

So is anyone going to create an application for customizing the GUI?

[jbw]

So is anyone going to create an application for customizing the GUI?

 

Or if not an application, at least a manual of some sort that shows what links to what?

 

I've messed around with customizing and it's actually quite easy. Finding everything is the hard part.

[Ploki]

So is anyone going to create an application for customizing the GUI?

to much work imo

[birk]

I put this same info out on gearslutz yesterday (sorry, I don't have time to follow as fast as the stuff gets posted here!).

 

I started playing around with creating a 'plistUpldater' script that one could load up with property list mods for various "themes". One could then run it and it would take care of the property list ugliness (with some human-friendly readability) and it wouldn't involve swapping out the file.

 

It's not at all a stretch to think that it could also swap out the TIFs (either from a local store or some web-based source). I like what gearslutz/yodamusic did with a simple AppleScript to swap out the link to the MAResources.framework folder... I took that and changed it ia bit to create a simple snazzy "file swap" script.

 

Anyway... back to the plist editor thing...

 

The nice thing about it is I set up the 'test' theme and then the 'default' theme and i ran the script like:

me$ . logicPListUpdater.sh test

and i saw the changes and then

me$ . logicPListUpdater.sh default

set them back.

 

So is there any appetite out there for something like this? We could host it on github or something and then people could add in their own mods (though the image replacement thing would take some more thought).

 

Also, in case anyone is interested, here is an example of the logic (!) that this runs... PlistBuddy is an executable installed in the OS by default...

 

# ARRANGE BACKGROUND
if [[ $theme == "default" ]]; then
property=("${property[@]}" ':AssetSets:Colors:Arrange:Background')
value=("${value[@]}" 'GrayColor:{35,100}')
elif [[ $theme == "test" ]]; then
property=("${property[@]}" ':AssetSets:Colors:Arrange:Background')
value=("${value[@]}" 'sRGBByteColor:{1, 2, 3, 4}')
fi

# DO IT
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set ${property[$i]} ${value[$i]}" /Applications
/Logic\ Pro\ X.app/Contents/Frameworks/MAResources.framework/Versions/A
/Resources/MAResourcesMapping.plist

[Bengtfalke]

Does anybody know if any of the posted themes are ready for the retina display?

[peeb]

Here's a question. Because the Resources Folder is inside the LPX Package, would it be possible to copy LPX, rename it something like LPX SSL, or LPXPTs, change the Resources Folders inside the copies, and therefore have different versions of Logic that open with different GUIs? I'm afraid to go ahead and do it in case i wreak havoc, but does anyone actually know the answer to this definitely? I figure as long as i leave a pristine copy of LPX Software Update will still work

[Jordi Torres]

Here's a question. Because the Resources Folder is inside the LPX Package, would it be possible to copy LPX, rename it something like LPX SSL, or LPXPTs, change the Resources Folders inside the copies, and therefore have different versions of Logic that open with different GUIs? I'm afraid to go ahead and do it in case i wreak havoc, but does anyone actually know the answer to this definitely? I figure as long as i leave a pristine copy of LPX Software Update will still work

 

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that will work without any problems.

 

J.

[peeb]

Thanks for the reply Jordi, I appreciate it. I have a project to finish so i can't afford to make LPX stop working, but when i get through it, i'll do a full clone of my hard drive and then give it a shot. If it all goes horribly wrong i'll recover fine, it'll just take a little while