Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

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XSIMan
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Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by XSIMan » Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:58 pm

Made this Skin for Live 9 and Live 8 might update it again this week to make some of the text easier to read.

Download Link http://www.4shared.com/file/IInYC-l2/LMA_Grey_1.html

For windows 7 & 8 install put it here:-
Live 9 beta C:\ProgramData\Ableton\Live 9 Beta\Resources\Skins
Live 8 beta C:\ProgramData\Ableton\Live 8 Beta\Resources\Skins
Live 8 C:\ProgramData\Ableton\Live 8\Resources\Skins

To get to Lives Skin folder You may have to enable show hiden files.
Control Panel
Folder Options
Under view tab, enable show hidden files. Click Apply.
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enjoy.

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by KrisM » Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:56 am

Looks nice, so good job on it :) But I'm not jumping through 4Share's hoops/sign up just to download it.

FYI, DropBox is free and gives you 2GB of space to store things like this, and via the web interface will give you URLs to link to any file in your DropBox :)

For anyone on a Mac that wants to use this, you have to r-click on the Live app, select Show Package Contents, and then go into the Contents folder, then App-Resources folder, and then drop it into the Skins folder.
I don't 'produce.' I write music.

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by XSIMan » Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:40 am

I would have to install drop box to upload it but I have also uploaded the skin to http://sonictransfer.com/ableton-live-skins/ a few days ago so you will just have to wait for them to get round to reviewing it.

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by lapieuvre » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:12 pm

KrisM wrote:Looks nice, so good job on it :) But I'm not jumping through 4Share's hoops/sign up just to download it.
+1
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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by KTlin » Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:58 pm

It looks nice! Thank you XSIMan. :wink:

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by spktkpkt » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:08 pm

Nice skin. How do you create it? I thought the skin editor from sonictransfer doesn't work for Live 9 skins anymore. I would love to create my own color schemes/skins. :)
XSIMan wrote:I would have to install drop box to upload...
No need to have it on your computer, you can up- and download via the web interface.

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by XSIMan » Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:20 pm

Sonic Transfare works for live 9 too. I might give drop box another go one day.

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by marcoskohler » Fri Apr 19, 2013 4:21 am

There is a MaxforLive device that lets you open, save, and edit skins within Live.

spktkpkt

Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by spktkpkt » Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:24 am

marcoskohler wrote:There is a MaxforLive device that lets you open, save, and edit skins within Live.
Thank you for the hint, got it.

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by subliminal » Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:03 pm

marcoskohler wrote:There is a MaxforLive device that lets you open, save, and edit skins within Live.
sounds v. interesting - link?

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by spktkpkt » Fri Apr 19, 2013 1:00 pm

subliminal wrote:
marcoskohler wrote:There is a MaxforLive device that lets you open, save, and edit skins within Live.
sounds v. interesting - link?
Sure, there you go :arrow:.

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by XSIMan » Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:33 pm

Thanks for the link there are some things that can't be edited with the editor I used so Now I've got to get max4Live.

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by Erik Mitchell » Fri Apr 19, 2013 5:23 pm

Looks good, I've always preferred darker GUI's. Easier on the eyes

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by spktkpkt » Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:23 pm

XSIMan wrote:Thanks for the link there are some things that can't be edited with the editor I used so Now I've got to get max4Live.
Surely. Max4Live is a very good and useful addition to Live, not only because of the Skin Editor.

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Re: Dark Skin for Live 9 & Live 8

Post by Martin Gifford » Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:01 am

That's a great skin! It reminds me of Adobe Premiere - if you change to a dark background, the letters turn white. Premiere is an example of a simple grey theme that looks great (unlike default Ableton skins).

I like dark skins too, but They don't work properly. For example, if you open the midi editor for drums, the letters for the drum names are dark and the background is dark, so you can't read them.

Maybe the M4L version works better. I'll check it out.

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