Ableton Forum

A request, probably impossible.

There's a skin for Live here http://www.sonictransfer.com/ableton-li ... p?file=141 which is brilliant. One small thing, the main text, in black, would look much better in white, IMHO. I tried to open it up in the skin editor on the same site but the app says the file is not supported. The designer of the skin notes on SonicTransfer that it was "hand crafted using a hex editor". Hmm, a hex editor.

Can anyone edit it/ Am I out of luck?

This is something that I always felt should be available as a standard option. black text on dark backgrounds suck

"Editing my skin" - is that what getting a tattoo is called these days?

sporkles wrote:"Editing my skin" - is that what getting a tattoo is called these days?

No, but I think it should be, and it will be the title of my album.

See, Geebag agrees, the world would be a nicer place if somebody could do this, give us white text.

Has your file got .ask after it just a thought

Yes, it's an .ask file. I think the problem is that it was edited using a hex editor, though I'll be the first to admit I have no idea what I'm talking about here.

Cant down load to mac at moment so i have tried to recreate it its posted on sonic transfer Called it White Type have not had time to try it out much so it might need tweaking when you want to change it back you wont see skin names in preferences list white on white is hard to see
ps did one a while a go called play! you might like

i use this skin since ages... totally love it... it's so friendly on the eyes while staring at it for hours and hours...

my only complain is, that the hand symbol for the lock control device function does not change colour when locked...

i would be forever in there debt.

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dazzer wrote:Yes, it's an .ask file. I think the problem is that it was edited using a hex editor, though I'll be the first to admit I have no idea what I'm talking about here.

it just means that someone tweaked the skin by directly changing numbers in the file to mod stuff that isn't supported by the GUI editor...

@ swamp creature - can't find your "white type" skin on ST, although I did find others by you. That "Play" one is mad!

@ sub funk - my problem with the "Apple Pro" one is that it's virtually impossible to read the black text on my MAcBook screen but the rest of the colour scheme is cool.

@ fishmonkey - cheers, yeah I guessed it was something like that.

sporkles wrote:"Editing my skin" - is that what getting a tattoo is called these days?

It's slang for circumcision.

Skin has to be approved 1st so it should appear soon

ill run it through photoshop for you get the colour ids then remake it with white text brb

edit if you are running mac you can do this yourself the editors colour wheel gives you an eye dropper tool ...i dont have it installed so its hard to see hang on ill try and load the skin into live and do it that way

EDIT 2
well that was pointless the new interface is different enough to make it anoying sorry i might try again later

^^ OK, thanks for the effort, guys.