Removing Colored Bars From Pattern Editor

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Hi all, first timer here in the Renoise forums. I just dived back into Renoise after a hiatus and just realized something that always bugged me: the grey bar that follows the little orange cursor when moving up and down the pattern editor.

I’m not sure if others have felt the same, but it makes it a lot harder to create patterns. I use the static grey bars to identify quarter notes. Because of the moving grey bar (and that orange one that appears wherever I stopped my last play through), it’s hard to immediately glance and identify a particular given beat because those extra colors act as distractions.

I assume these were added to be helpful (in identifying what row your cursor is in and in identifying where you last stopped the playback). However, I would love to be able to remove them, as that would make Renoise a game changer for me.

I tried looking in the GUI preference section and couldn’t find anything of relevance. Is there a way to turn these colors off, or is this sadly a feature request that I would simply have to hope for?

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All you can do with that bar is change the color afaik.

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Yes, if you get into the preferences: theme menu you can change the center bar and playback bar colors to be the same as your pattern background and that should make them “invisible,” as long as your track color blending is off, I think. Haven’t tested it, but it seems like that should work

Edit: track blending doesn’t matter

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default no center bar.xrnc (5.0 KB)

try this theme. does it do what you want it to?

the downside is it will “overwrite” the grey of your beat divisions while on top of them

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