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Color Palette. In Pro Tools 6 we got colors to be able to assign our Tracks, and then in Pro Tools 7 we were able to assign things according to our Track Color Palette, so if we had an entire Track that we wanted to give a specific color we were able to do that in the last version. However, it was kind of buried and it wasn't quite as easy to find, so you had to hold down a Control-Option-Command to be able to assign these. So let's go to our Windows Menu, go down to Color Palette and see how it's done in Pro Tools 8 and how it's been made a little bit more obvious and simple. So, what I've got here, I want to select my Tracks, what I want to assign, so I'm going to select the Tracks and then I can go in and choose what Color those should be, so I'm going to say both of those should be this Color, so I can start grouping things. Notice the Regions didn't actually change color, just the Tracks themselves, and that's because I chose that. So, I could say Regions In Tracks, so let me zoom out here and I'm going to have these Regions in the Tracks assigned, so let's go Regions In Tracks, and then go ahead and choose our Color that we'd like, so I'm going to take this, and assign these all to our red. So, let's go to our Regions and Region List. You can see I've already assigned some things to a Color. I'm going to change those to be a different Color. Keep in mind that this is following what is in our Preferences under Display, and that's going to rule as far as our Settings go when we've got Regions that we duplicate. So, I'm going to go into the Mix Window and take a look here. I've got my Saturation all the way up and that's why you see the stark difference. Again, this is one of those things underneath the hood in Pro Tools 8 that they've really given the flexibility, or set themselves up to be more flexible, to change how Pro Tools looks, so it's completely separate as far as the Interface, than embedded inside the code, so that's kind of outside the realm of what we really need to concern ourselves with. What we're just trying to do is assign the Tracks, so in future updates we may get more of the flexibility of the look and feel of Pro Tools based on what they did under the hood for Pro Tools 8. So, I want to do my Groups now. That's probably one of my favorites, or the Defaults of what the Tracks are, so I'm going to go down and I'm going to select my Vocals here and I want to assign each of these Vocals to, in this Group, to be assigned to a Color. So I'm going to go ahead and choose here, and you can see that's automatically assigned. Let's do our Drums here, and I would like these to be yellow for our Drums. So, notice that our Tracks themselves didn't change, and the reason why is because it's just changing what the actual Group assignment is for the Color. So if you look at the top here, this is what it's changing, so what is part of that Group itself. So, I'll select something else. Let's go ahead and go down to our Rodes, and I'm not showing all my Tracks here, so let me Show All Tracks, and we'll take a look and see what we've got here. So we can see in our Groups, there are all our Vocals that got assigned, so I'm going to change that and there is where that change is. So based, again, on our Selection. So we'll change those all to red instead. Let's say I do want Tracks again, this is the same thing that we saw out in our Edit Window. So, I'm going to say these Tracks should actually be this Color. All the Hold does is allows us to keep the last Color that we selected, so if I was going to select some other Track rather than having this update when I select the new Track, Hold just keeps the last Color so I can assign it to the same color. So now I'm going to select something that's green and I can remember where that's at, and then go ahead and assign that to the same color. So, that's what our Hold does. Default's fairly obvious. It goes back to whatever the Default was. So if I select all my Tracks and I want to assign things based on the Default then there we go. So, all my Audio Tracks are blue, my Master Faders are red, I've got the purple for our MIDI, and then our yellow-orange for our Instrument Tracks, which I don't have any of those in this particular Session. So, let's look at our last one, which is going to be grayed out, and that's our Markers, and the reason for that is because in our Preferences we don't have our Setting to show our Marker Location. So, I would like our Color Coding to be based on our Markers. If I go down to Markers it's no longer grayed out. Let's take a look at what changed here in our Edit Window. So, now we can see that things are coloring our Markers, and when I select a Marker location I can go and now assign it to some other Color, so I'd like it to be this color. I'm going to go to this Marker location of 7 and change that to a different Color. Let's go to 5, and assign that to another Color. So you can see each of these are changing based on what I jumped to. Again, I can also change that in my Preferences as far as what I see for my Region Color Coding, so I could say I want Regions, or I just want to have my individual Tracks assigned to a specific Color. So, the reason why we're not seeing our Regions different colors is because I haven't separated them up within the actual Marker location, so if I want these as well I'm going to separate this. Now all of a sudden this turns green because it's after our Marker location. See if I can get this one right in between, and this one's going to turn our Marker location number 6, it looks like that probably is, because it falls within the Range of that Marker. So, that's how we can use our Color Palette to change our different Settings. Our Brightness just changes, like it says, the brightness or the intensity that you see here. So, from our light to dark. So, Saturation's probably what most people are after as far as the intensity of the Color if you're wondering why that doesn't change. So make sure that you click this little button before you start doing that, otherwise you get our fun shades of gray.