um, er, yeah... its mostly friendly.

How about some screenshots, eh? I don't want to bother with the download and setup junk (yeah, lazy) if maybe I'll just hate them....give a peek.

-M

Where in feck are these boss skins then???

Okay, the new skins pack is finally finished

It has been a lot of work, but I like the improvements I made.

Just to get you up to date:

Instructions:

(close Live before you install the files)

1. Go to your Ableton program folder
2. Right click or Shift-click the Live Icon to show the Ableton content
3. Go to Contents - App Resources - Skins
4. Copy the ask files to the skins directory

(open Live)


Codes (for the brightness of skins):
- DRK is a dark skin
- LHT is a light skin
- MED is a skin with medium brightness
- DF means 'Dark Font' (these are extra skins I included who have a dark font for more contrast and usability in some areas)

I also added a code for the main colour (R = red, Y = yellow, ... you get the point).

45 skins are included

Improved / bug fixes:
- Minor adjustments for several colors to get better contrast
- Pads for drumrack are now readable in all skins
- Operator has a different color for each oscillator
- Operator's parameters are readable in all skins
- Fixed the color of the loop bar (which was ugly blue before)
- adjusted the color of the XY control in the black skins to make the edges visible
- added extra skins with dark fonts (DF) in the DRK section to make the orange bars readable and to improve the contrast in clips who are labeled with names

"The Orange Boxes":
There where certain things I couldn't change like the standard orange color used for 'monitor in' and in blocks for controlling certain parameters because it wasn't supported with the skin editor I used (http://sonictransfer.com/ableton-live-skin-editor.shtml). This is only a problem when the font is lighter (like in the DRK skins), when it doesn't have a high contrast with the orange color.
However, I didn't find this a major issue, because it's still possible to read the text in the boxes (it's just harder) and you use your ears anyway to check what you're doing. Also the benefit of having some dark skins was much more important to me.
Offcourse you could also use the lighter skins (with darker fonts) when producing, and the dark skins when performing.
The "Club" skin is a dark skin, but it does also have a dark font, so you can read those values in the boxes perfectly.
I included some extra skins in the DRK section with a 'DF' code that stands for Dark Font. With these skins the contrast in the boxes with orange bars is just great.

Preview:



Links: (0,8 mb)
http://www.easy-share.com/1909461854/Au ... 1_V2.0.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/359814418/A ... 1_V2.0.zip (Thx to WebSite!)

Also hosted here (Thx!):
http://nilusrothschild.com/2010/03/12/a ... ive-skins/


Enjoy !

thanks!!!

Thnx, great!!

Good work on your designs but.....this is my fave skin atm:


http://sonictransfer.com/ableton-live-s ... hp?file=77


The only thing I would change is having the dial colours to be a nice emerald green, apart from that it highlights the best in a club!

thanks Sarova! will try them for sure.
HERE's the Rapidshare link. Easyshare sucks big time.

Great! Included the link in the main update post, thanks!

I found someone who was able to host for the skins (Thank you!), so I included a new link for everyone who doesn't like the upload sites.

If you're enjoying the skins (or not ), feel free to leave some feedback in this thread.


Greets
rx

sigh, still no skins out there that look good, nothing looks clean or professional. Need some like the new cubase or maschines ui...black, glosy, super updated looks, 3d dimensional areas in the interface, looks so much nicer, although I'm still content with lives, easy to use and understand whens things are simple, but still...would be nice.