Dual Monitors with Sonar

You need to extend the sonar desktop across both monitors.  in versions before x1 i believe everything has to live inside the sonar desktop

You can stretch all the Sonar versions across 2 monitors; I am presuming that you have your dual monitor setup configure as an "extended window" and not 2 individuals monitor.
 
HOWEVER....you have to "manually" stretch Sonar's window across the 2 montors. I don't know why but click on the top right square box only streches the application to your master monitor. X1 is working the same way and this is something I will report to cakewalk when I a minute to do it.
 
No just like 7.0, 8.5 all (or almost) all the windows can be set to "float" and thus can live outside of Sonar. You just have to enable "floating"
 
Mario
 
 

Well, I use 8.5 all the time and float whatever views I want on the 2nd monitor.  But as I said, you don't have to stretch Sonar's view to do that.  You just have to have your monitors set up to be stretched always, for all programs - that's the only way to use 2 monitors to any advantage.  But in Sonar, no more stretching is needed - you just ask for things to be floated that you want to display on monitor 2.

Randy B.

twoifbysea


Dual monitors is the only way to go with X1. I love the UI but it's huge. I move the multi-dock to the right screen and keep everything else on the left. This works great for tracking, mixing, matrixing or what ever. 

Yes, I know what you mean.  All the elements in X1's GUI are so unusually large, they really require a 2 monitor system.  Those big, blocky chunks of graphics don't adapt to lower resolutions or single screens, unfortunate for users without those kind of resources.

rbowser

Hi Guys,
This my first time here on this forum and I want to ask you about using a second screen
I have stretch out  and set up my screen as one big screen
I have the tracking module on the left side and my console view on the right side
Now....here is the problem
If I open up, in prochannel, my zoom window from the Quadcurve in the console view, it opens to the left side instead of the right side of the channelstrip. Now every time I open the zoom window it passes the middle off my duble screen, so there is always a black stripe ( from the 2 edges from both monitor ) in my EQ window
Is there a way too avoid this
Thanks in advance
 
Greetings from Holland

Hi Michael,
Thanks for the replay
I had allready extend my screen to one big screen, and had just like you,keeping the track view on 1e ( left ) monitor and the console view on my 2e ( right ).
But what happens if you open the QuadCurve EQ in one of the tracks in the console view
does it open the new pro channel equalizer on the left or right of the channel ( say channel 1 )
I see mine on the left side from channel 1, so the pop up screen is diveded by the edges of both monitors 
I am not sure if I explane it right, so you can understand what my problem is
Thanks again
 
Charlie

Don't 'stretch' the image. Once you float a view, you can then drag it to the second monitor. Expand to fill just that monitor with the view.

Don't know really, but a couple possibilities come to mind like update the video drivers or a new video card or a bad cable. Maybe lower the resolution on the monitor.
 
My second monitor is older (free!) and doesn't have as high a resolution as my main screen. I actually like the lower resolution for some things as every thing is bigger! Really helps when I open some VST interfaces as the print is tiny and quite hard to read on high res. monitor. With quite a few VST windows, you can't change the type size or it's window is only one size and can't be expanded to fill the monitor screen.

Hi. Just be aware that if second monitor is mounted above your primary monitor, you might get issues with the Saturation Knob in CV / Pro Channel. I have had dual monitors for several years (and have a workaround for it), and this is the only issue I have come across so far.
I could actually use at least one more monitor
All the best.

As was mentioned in another thread a while ago, the problem is when your 2nd, 3rd etc monitor is either to the left or top of your main monitor, some applications have problems. This is because on those monitors the screen coordinates are negative (0, 0 is the top-left of your main monitor). So some applications (including plugins etc), foolishly think they should clip coordinates so that they are not negative, but negative coordinates are perfectly valid.
 
An alternative approach is what I just did - get yourself a 40" 4K monitor. This is the equivalent of 4 x full 20" HD monitors in both number of pixels and surface area. Once you do that, you will never have any of these problems, as well as never want to go back to anything smaller. I can't recommend it highly enough.