User guide

318 Chapter 13 Creating Your Arrangement
Assigning Colors to Regions
Color is useful for identifying sections of your arrangement, or particular track types.
Newly recorded or added regions initially adopt the color of the track channel strip.
By default:
 Audio track channel strips are blue.
 Software instrument channel strips are green.
 ReWire and external MIDI channel strips are red.
 Auxiliary, Input, and Output channel strips are yellow.
To change the color of one or more regions:
1 Select the desired regions (rubber-band or Shift-click, for example).
2 Do one of the following:
 Click the Colors button in the Arrange Toolbar.
 Choose View > Colors in the Arrange area (or use the corresponding key command,
default: Option-C).
3 In the Color palette that opens, click on the desired color.
 If you’d like to create a custom color: Double-click on any color square in the Color
palette to open the Colors window: Use the mouse on the color wheel, contrast, and
opacity sliders to create a custom color. Click the OK button to replace the color
square in the Color palette, and exit the Colors window.
Note: Custom colors are memorized, and are available for all projects.
To assign channel strip colors to regions:
1 Select the desired regions.
∏ Tip: If all regions are on a single track, click the track name in the track list to select all
regions.
2 Choose Region > Channel Strip/Instrument Colors to Regions (or use the Channel Strip/
Instrument Colors To Regions key command, default Shift-Option-C).
This replaces the colors of all selected regions with the colors of the corresponding
channel strips.
∏ Tip: This feature is handy after copying or moving regions between tracks, when you
may find that the Arrange area resembles a patchwork quilt.