Floating Color Pallet for everything

Cubase
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Cubase would benefit from a floating color palette that remains open until the user closes it.

Currently, selecting a color from the Project window toolbar closes the palette after each choice. This makes it unnecessarily cumbersome to colorize multiple audio events, MIDI parts, loops, and other objects using several different colors.

Logic Pro provides a floating color palette that stays visible while the user selects objects and assigns colors. This is much faster when visually organizing an arrangement.

Suggested behavior:

  • Allow the existing color palette to be detached or opened as a floating window.
  • Keep the palette open while different events, parts, or tracks are selected.
  • Close it only when the user manually dismisses it.
  • Optionally provide a key command to show or hide the palette.

This would be a small interface improvement with a substantial workflow benefit.

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I´m not sure we are talking about the same thing, but you already can open a floating color palette in Cubase via this key-command:

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once the palette is open you can color whatever is selected:Events, Markers Tracks…

I wish though, the palette could display all colours without the need of scrolling!

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You can also assign a key command to the colour tool in the toolbox.

4

It’s all there already.
Menu: Project → Select Color for Selected Tracks or Events

5

Is this a Cubase 15 thing? I’m still on 14 and it’s [Project → Colorize Selected Tracks…]
Same thing different text.
The dot dot dot signifying that a dialogue will open.

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Err… you’re right. I looked it up in the manual since I wasn’t at the Cubase computer and got the wrong item.
It is the second item from the to in the Project menu and it changes it’s name depending on what is selected.

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Let’s say I have 20 cycle markers defined on a marker track. I want to colorize them. As far as I know, I can select a marker, open the color palette, and click on a color. Then the palette will close. Rinse and repeat for each marker. Why can’t the palette simply stay open? Sure would save some time.

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With the way Steinberg move things around, I wasn’t sure.

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Did you watch my video? You can exactly do that with the steps I provided!
Assigne a key-command to “Set Track/Event Color” will open the Color-palette, which stays open till you close it (it´s colorize in the project-menu, for some reason it´s “Set Track/Event Color” in the key commands):

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Okay. Good tip.

Can you do that with cycle markers?

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Yes, it colors what currently is selected.
(i´m demonstrating with events and cycle markers in my first video)

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I must have missed your first video. Because the video I see does not show cycle markers. It shows only clips on an audio track.

But I’ll give it a try, cause it looks like the perfect solution

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It´s the first post after your opening post

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It’s a shame, though, and what I think should be improved is that the floating color window in the mixer has no function. This means that when I’m in the mixer, I can’t color multiple channels with a single click (with the floating color window)