User Manual

PREFERENCES AND SETTINGS
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Managing theme files
Themes are installed in the following location:
Press the Open button (Figure 7-13 on page 75) to
open the folder on disk which contains your theme
files. There, you can rename, copy, delete, etc. your
theme files.
TRACK COLORS
Digital Performer allows you to choose any display
color you want for each track. Coloring tracks can
help you to distinguish them more easily in the
Track Overview, Mixing Board, MIDI Editor
windows and elsewhere in the program. You can
use preset colors or choose any color you want
from the color picker. Digital Performer also
provides many different color schemes (sets of
colors) for you to choose from. You can even create
your own schemes.
The Track Color Preferences
Choose View menu > Color > Track Color
Preferences to set the color use preferences:
Figure 7-14: The Track Colors preferences.
The check boxes in the Track Colors section let you
enable/disable the use of color in various windows.
Use custom track colors
In the Use custom track colors section, use the check
boxes to choose the various windows in which you
would like to display customized track colors.
Assign new tracks options
The Assign new tracks options let you determine
how color is assigned to new tracks when they are
first created.
To a l l di f fere nt colors : when a new track is created,
this option gives it a color from the current color
palette.
To different shades of the same color: when a new
track is created, this option gives it a shade of the
color you choose from the swatch menu at the
bottom of the Track Color Preferences dialog.
Platform Path
macOS /Library/Application Support/MOTU/Digital
Performer/Themes/
Windows C:\ProgramData\MOTU\Digital Per-
former\Themes\