Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:33 pm   Reply with quote      

There are 70 skin elements in an Ableton Live Skin. Right now, you can graphically edit about half. With your help, we can make it able to graphically edit all of them.

The list below contains all of the skin elements in a Live skin. Each element with a star beside it has not yet been identified. If you can find any of these elements, PLEASE post instructions on where it is located in the GUI.

HOW TO IDENTIFY A SKIN ELEMENT

Open the Skin Editor and create a new skin for testing. Change the color of an element to something noticable like bright pink. Save the skin in the editor and then load it in Ableton Live. Try to identify what element is now bright pink. After you find it, post a message explaining where it is.

ALL SKIN ELEMENTS (* = not found yet, underlined = discovered)

MainText
ConrolForeground
ControlDisabled
MeterBackground
SurfaceHighlight
SurfaceArea
Desktop
DesktopChooserSelected
SelectionFrame
ControlBackground
ChosenDefault
ChosenRecord
ChosenPreListen
RangeDefault
RangeDisabled
* RangeSend1
* RangeSend2
* RangeSend3
* RangeSend4
* RangeLeft
* RangeRight
LearnMidi
LearnKey
Clip1
Clip2
* Clip3
* Clip4
* Clip5
* Clip6
* Clip7
* Clip8
* Clip9
* Clip10
* Clip11
* Clip12
* Clip13
* Clip14
* Clip15
* Clip16
SelectionPaint
SelectionPaintStandby
SurfaceBackground
AutomationColor
LoopColor
ShadowDark
*ShadowLight
DisplayBackGround
* AbletonColor
WaveformColor
Alert
ControlOnForeground
ControlOffForeground
ControlTextBack
ControlContrastFrame
ControlContrastTransport
* AutomationDisabled
AutomationMouseOver
MidiNoteMinVelocity
MidiNoteMaxVelocity
RetroDisplayBackground
RetroDisplayGreen
RetroDisplayRed
Operator1
Operator2
Operator3
Operator4
* RetroDisplayBackgroundLine
* SurefaceAreaFocus
FreezeLayer
Gridlabel

big thanks to serotoninsteve!

Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:55 am   Reply with quote      

* LearnMidi
* LearnKey

This are the colors wich all the key or midi assignable elements are highlighted while in learn mode.


* AutomationMouseOver
Is the color an automation line changes to when mousing over.


Greetings

Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:02 pm   Reply with quote      

* ChosenRecord
is the color of the tracks record button when armed

* RangeDisabled
is the color of the send knobs range, but only when sends are disabled (in L6)

Greetings

Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:06 pm   Reply with quote      

* MidiNoteMaxVelocity
* MidiNoteMinVelocity


are the notes colors when at full and lowest velocity.

Greetings

Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:30 pm   Reply with quote      

* FreezeLayer

Defines the color of the doted background lines in
Live´s devices "touchpad" fields and some other colors in beatrepeat.

Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:47 pm   Reply with quote      

* RetroDisplayBackground
Defines the background color for the touchpads
on the devices.

* RetroDisplayGreen
* RetroDisplayRed
* Operator1
* Operator2
* Operator3
* Operator4

Color some other stuff in operator´s info view

Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:51 pm   Reply with quote      

* Alert
Defines the colorfield at the bottom, where it displays things like "audio is disabled, click here" or samples are missing.

Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:38 pm   Reply with quote      

* SelectionFrame
Defines the color of the line wich appears when you drag a track or a device between other tracks or devices to show where they would be put when letting them go.

Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:33 pm   Reply with quote      

Thanx Matt,
could you tell me what is
ShadowDark?

It´s easier to find
*ShadowLight
perhaps.

For the

* Clip3
* Clip4
* Clip5
* Clip6
* Clip7
* Clip8
* Clip9
* Clip10
* Clip11
* Clip12
* Clip13
* Clip14
* Clip15
* Clip16
I would say they are simply
the 16 different clipcolors available in L5.
In L6 there are a lot more now.


Greetings

Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:05 pm   Reply with quote      

hi thanks for this tool it's great.
i was wondering how to change the volume measure of the audio or that is being used.for instance if you are recording audio it will be two green lines moving to represent it inthe mixer,i would really like to change them to white.

Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:28 am   Reply with quote      

Hi hikikomori!

Thanks for checking out the editor. Unfortunately, there is no way to change the color of the volume measure. Ableton doesn't have that option in their skin files.

Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:38 am   Reply with quote      

Still looking for the clip envelopes default color,
arrangement it is ok,
it seems not changeable in L6.

Greetings

Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:02 am   Reply with quote      

Thanks again - your help is making the final version of the editor come along much quicker!

Fri Nov 24, 2006 6:53 pm   Reply with quote      

Hi Matt,
it´s fun to hunt!
Seems that clipenvelopes have the same color as in arrangement,
but they don´t change their color directly when you reload a skin, you need to tweak a few things in Live like tabbing from session to arrangement and back.

Here is another one:
*automation disabled
is the color the lines become when the back to arrangement lights up to show that they are overidden.

Here my question again:
could you tell me what
ShadowDark is?

It´s easier to find
*ShadowLight
perhaps.

For the the missing colors couldn´t you kindly ask the Abes support for some info?
Like Ableton color, that must be a very important invisible one!

Anyway I wish you a happy coding.

Greetings

Mon May 14, 2007 5:00 am   Reply with quote      

Hello.....I was just surfing the net and i found a site with a colour scheme application which had really vivid e-colours in it for the GUI. Goto this french site www.3DVF.com and check it out in one of there tutorials. I think the colours in the download SKIN editor provided need to be beefed up a notch or two and are not brilliant enough to mix properly to get anything substantial. Why not have another and maybe find a skin editor from obselete program like ye ol' italian GROOVEMAKER IK program. SVG is a better solution all round and ABLETON have that organised already. I am developing a HMI-SVG solution myself for another project.

Keep Producing!