color colorer - color regions instantly

Description

T: Damn I wish I could color regions instantly by clicking a key on my computer keyboard here rather than laboriously right clicking and then selecting from a whole range of super icky default ableton colors.

R: I've got just the thing.

T: You mean you spent hours making a max patch that does this?

R: Yep.

T: What a waste of time.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Assign each of these color swaths to any key on your computer keyboard (using command+K)

2. Select the color you want each key to correspond to, using the circle in the upper lefthand corner of each swath.

3. To color a region, just select it and press any of the previously assigned computer keys.

I wanted it for comping, to quickly label parts that were good. Maybe you do too. We can be friends.

YOU SHOULD KNOW:

It can only color one region at a time.

It will color the whole region, so if you want a segment of the region colored, you have to cut it first (command+e), then color.

Make sure you assign your key to the color swath, not the upper-left color selecting ring button guy. If a color wheel comes up when you're trying to color a region, that's why.

I PERSONALLY recommend putting it on your default session's master track. (It doesn't matter where you put it by the way.) And have keys then pre-assigned to colors. But you don't have to take my advice now do you, no sir.

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