sonarman1
A current thought given by a few other helpful users here in this thread is to leave that window minimized instead of closed. I'm not thrilled at leaving it that way, but I will investigate this later today... I'm mostly wondering how this will respond when calling different clips/tracks... I will not be able to work with it opening separate instances for each PRV call...
It can be better than this, but thats in Bakers hands. While docked in multidock there is no problem at all. Always d and shift+D does the workflow perfect. I love to keep the PRV all full without anything else in view. I love to work with midi that way. Initially I had trouble as well. But keeping it minimized works like a charm. Initially I was also hesistant to do that coz I hated to see a small minimized window's title bar at the corner. But this is the best workarround till now. Its very easy to get used to. No you wont get multiple windows when you open different clips. The previous midi events will be replaced with the new clip events, as always! When you keep it minimised and open someting, what you opened will be opened in the minimised window. You just have to click D after that. Keeping it minimized is easier than closing PRV every time. You will have to search for the close button and click it. Insteed just click D it will get minimized and stay there. When you have to open it again Click D. Quite easy. Think like this, the undocked minimized multidock window is your second screen everything you open goes there. Just like how you have to turn your head to look at the other window, press D. To turn back to your first screen press D. I am pretty happy having it like this. Do see if it suits your workflow.
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this is exactly how I work as well.
I tend to use screensets more because I have my different midi tracks set up for different views.
Example: I don't need to double click on clips because screensets remembers the track im on.
so screenset #5 is full screen PRV for piano midi track
screenset # is full screen PRV for synth midi track
screenset #6 is full screen PRV for drums midi track
screenset #7 is full screen PRV for flute midi track
and so on and so on.
but when im working with more than 5 or 6 midi tracks, or im working fast on the fly,
I use SHIFT+D to fully expand the dock to MAX height.
then I just use D to show it / hide it.
this gives me full view of track view and full view of PRV.
I double click on a midi track to show that track in the PRV.
I find these methods very productive and after a few, it becomes second nature.
it reminds me of when I first learned how to use the PRV years ago.
before DAW's, I used to program drum on an Alesis SR-16. that was a process all on its own.
then when I started using a DAW (Cakewalk Pro Audio 9) I was hesitant to use the PRV.
instead I elected to import / or connect my drum machine to sonar to control via midi.
this worked for a long time until I became curious if my methods were less productive then
accepting a change and using the PRV to write my parts out.
well the process was slow, it took a long time for me to get used to drawing notes, placing them in the right places.
a few times I got so frustrated I almost packed it up and went back to using the drum machine.
but you know what ? it finally paid off. after about 2 months I began writing drum notes faster than I ever could using the drum machine and even more of a bonus, I could manipulate things in PRV like I never could on a drum machine.
sometimes change is forced, sometimes change is voluntary. but one thing is for sure,
change is enviable.