Shading every other bar on sequencer

[craste]

Why doesn't reason have evey other bar in the sequencer a different shade/colour like it does in other DAWS - so that when you are doing drum pattens etc. you know you are at the start of the next bar - so simple and it would be so easy to implement.

This would help pople so much especially if you are producing dance music!

At the moment its like staring at a spreadsheet and its really hard to see when you are at the next bar unless you look at the bar numbers at the top - it makes your eyes go funny, its really annoying!!!!

[Creativemind]

I'll add that to the 140 other missing features I counted today lol!

[gullum]

I'll add that to the 140 other missing features I counted today lol!

if they were never there they can't be missing right? or is reason starting to loose futures now

[Creativemind]

I'll add that to the 140 other missing features I counted today lol!

if they were never there they can't be missing right? or is reason starting to loose futures now

Loose features, the only things that are loose are the screws on the rack on my Subtractor sometimes.

[Jagwah]

Why doesn't reason have evey other bar in the sequencer a different shade/colour like it does in other DAWS - so that when you are doing drum pattens etc. you know you are at the start of the next bar - so simple and it would be so easy to implement.

Have you tried using coloured blocks, I've been doing this for years (see pic). If you want to wait for your idea to be implemented, just remember we can't even get a marker in the sequencer and it's probably been asked for, for at least ten years. Just like coloured clips however, they do throw us some crumbs for the sequencer every 5 or 6 years so here's to hoping you might get the crumb you want one day in our lifetimes

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[WillyOD]

Sorry, Props run out of colors a long time ago.

Otherwise we'd have more track color selections (or customizable color palette).

They also forgot this when they added the Blue and Dark themes. Not enough paint to finish all the coloring.

;D

[boingy]

And if you want fewer colours, start using blocks.

[guitfnky]

And if you want fewer colours, start using blocks.

how does that work? I’ve never seen fewer colors when I use Blocks.

[boingy]

And if you want fewer colours, start using blocks.

how does that work? I’ve never seen fewer colors when I use Blocks.

If I could be bothered I'd do you a screenshot. Creating blocks uses the track colours but when you switch to song view and "paint" in your blocks you just get various pale pastel shades across all tracks. So unless you overwrite the blocks with extra stuff the timeline view might as well be on a monochrome monitor. Just one more reason not to use blocks.


Jagwah's use of empty blocks as track markers is about the best use of blocks I've seen! Quite why we can't have a proper marker track and a proper arranger track is beyond me. It works for the rest of the DAW world....

[guitfnky]

how does that work? I’ve never seen fewer colors when I use Blocks.

If I could be bothered I'd do you a screenshot. Creating blocks uses the track colours but when you switch to song view and "paint" in your blocks you just get various pale pastel shades across all tracks. So unless you overwrite the blocks with extra stuff the timeline view might as well be on a monochrome monitor. Just one more reason not to use blocks.


Jagwah's use of empty blocks as track markers is about the best use of blocks I've seen! Quite why we can't have a proper marker track and a proper arranger track is beyond me. It works for the rest of the DAW world....

that doesn’t limit the number of colors you can use though, unless I’m misunderstanding.

the *actual* best use of Blocks is as it’s intended—for quickly trying different song structures, but hey, you do you.

[gullum]

if they were never there they can't be missing right? or is reason starting to loose futures now

Loose features, the only things that are loose are the screws on the rack on my Subtractor sometimes.

sorry I guess the right word is Lose but I'm from a country where English is not even the 2. language

[Proboscis]

In the absence of marker regions, I also use the Block Arranger (although I never actually use blocks themselves). The colors can be changed to any of the 32 colors in the Reason palette, plus you can add labels to each of them. Another painless workaround that's quick & easy.

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[Jagwah]

^^^ Plus you can put different coloured blocks on top of those blocks for more defined markers.

...why we can't have a proper marker track and a proper arranger track is beyond me.

We can, we just need it to be the most talked about and requested feature with a 1000 page thread with everybody begging for it, then we wait for the next major release, then the next one, then the next one. It's only a matter of great effort on everybody's behalf and many many years with no idea if it will ever happen, pretty simple, unless you are a sooky la la like me who has become soured by this very protocol.

[pushedbutton]

Double rainbow mode first.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7322424

[boingy]

Double rainbow mode first.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7322424

Not quite your double rainbow mode but in Studio One piano roll you can set the colours by part, pitch or velocity:



I don't think there is a way to shade alternate bars though.

[Creativemind]

^^^ Plus you can put different coloured blocks on top of those blocks for more defined markers.

...why we can't have a proper marker track and a proper arranger track is beyond me.

We can, we just need it to be the most talked about and requested feature with a 1000 page thread with everybody begging for it, then we wait for the next major release, then the next one, then the next one. It's only a matter of great effort on everybody's behalf and many many years with no idea if it will ever happen, pretty simple, unless you are a sooky la la like me who has become soured by this very protocol.

Lol!

They do like to feed us these crumbs like we're seagulls.

[Creativemind]

Double rainbow mode first.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7322424

Not quite your double rainbow mode but in Studio One piano roll you can set the colours by part, pitch or velocity:



I don't think there is a way to shade alternate bars though.

Nice idea that.