Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:48 am   Reply with quote      

Hi matt, great work on those skins!!


I am using a lot "Patch's skin", i find it very inspiring. But i found a couple of issues that are pissing me off:

1- Activate track button is in the same colour (orange) regardless monitoring is "on" or "auto". Would be nice to see them in other colour, (for example in green, but it's up to you)

2- Inactive "see in detail" buttons for rack device do not appear when they are deactivated. I would desire i could see them on light grey, like other deactivate buttons on other live devices.

Because my english is awful, I have attached a screenshot to the previous explanation:




BTW, other issue i have found on "dark" skins, is that the text shown on MIDI note editor -i mean the note names on keys when you use Impulse, or a Rack and selecting "show MIDI names on MID note editor"- no longer appears... Because text and background are both on black colour!

Thank you in advance, see you on Ableton forums !!

Alvaro.

Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:18 am   Reply with quote      

Hi Alvaro!

Thank you for the well-written suggestions! I have received lots of tips from people, but you are the first person to send a screenshot. Thanks! It makes things so much easier.

1) I updated Patch's Skin to fix the monitoring issue. Click here to download the newest version.
2) I don't have Ableton Live 6 yet so I can't test this - I hope to have it soon.
3) Thanks for the tip! I will fix the popular "dark" themes.

Thanks again for writing and I will let you know as soon as I fix the rack issue (#2).

Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:53 am   Reply with quote      

Hi matt,

are you sure you uploaded the right file? Nothing new happens here, the 'activate track' button stays in same colour regardless you clicl on 'in' or 'auto' monitoring (Working on Live 6.0.1).


EDIT:
By the way, I have a personal suggestion -i'd love to see the following Patch's skin variation: orange colour schemes changed by red ones. This idea came up in my mind watching 'Al Is Full Of Love' Björk's videoclip. In particular, something that matches this desktop wallpaper i made (sorry for the size):



I said 'red', but if you watch in detail the robot logo and live's logo in there, is not pure red, but somekind of red-cyan merge....

Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:59 pm   Reply with quote      

Hi Alvaro!

1) I just downloaded and overwrote my copy of Patch Skin. In live it looks like this:



Is this what you were talking about?

2) I liked your suggestion about the Red variant. Click here to check it out.

Chris Cunningham is an amazing director and "All Is Full Of Love" is truly a masterpiece. Thanks again for the suggestions.

Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:07 pm   Reply with quote      

Hi matt,

Thank you very much for your time and for such quick response!

I just downloaded and checked the red skin -i couldn't wait after that screenshot...and my name over it -i dont deserve it!

Its perfect and matches perfect to my desktop... i think never gonna change it until Live 18 or so! The red tone is a bit darker and cyan than i was expecting, but its exactly the concept i was asking you. Seriously, thank you very much matt for this.

I agree with you about Cunningham, i love the aesthetic that emanate from the whole AIFOL videoclip, a really inspired and inspiring piece of art.

Greetings,

Alvaro.

Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:19 am   Reply with quote      

Hi Mat just wanted to say great job on the red skin looks would look great with Window Blinds Amora by David lanham skin for xp

Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:37 pm   Reply with quote      

Thanks Dj Osiris!