grumbleweed4162
I found using Sonar on one "small" screen rather difficult as I couldn't split the mixer and alt tab between views like I can using Reason so one screen is tricky

When running Sonar on a laptop, the D keyboard shortcut is great - flip between full-screen track view and full-screen console with a one keypress. While you're in the console, you can also tab through the different multidock windows. The only major limitation I find with the laptop is the control bar's inflexibility.

I wouldn't use sonar without two monitors. Well I would, but you know what I mean ;)

Cheers guys, it's all sorted.
Once I did the maths I shot out and got a second 24" monitor and everything is rosey in the GrumbleStudio.
Mrs Grumbleweed is owed a monstrous amount of payback due to the silly week I've just had but if we all send out feelings of goodwill I'm sure everything will balance out .
 
Grum. 

Uh huh...   Dual 24" rock.   
 
Try stretching the SONAR window across both monitors and use the shortcut keys above to move between views.   Sweet.

stevec
Uh huh...   Dual 24" rock.   
 
Try stretching the SONAR window across both monitors and use the shortcut keys above to move between views.   Sweet.

That probably works better if both monitors are close to being the same height. I can't claim to have achieved that .
 
Grum.

I wish I could get away with using one screen but alas I just couldn't handle it after all these years with two. My problem is that I have my monitors either side of the main screen (they'd be way too far apart if they were either side of both screens) and this means my second screen is way off to the right and angled inwards, which isn't too bad I suppose but it does make for more neck swiveling.

I even thought about installing the second screen above the first one, but I think that would feel incoherent when dragging the cursor between screens, and besides I have a friend who tried a setup like that and ended up having to have physiotherapy on his neck.

I have my Rokits on the outside of the screens but angled inwards. I only have to move back a little to sit in the sweet spot and being forward of it whilst recording/editing/mixing doesn't do any harm. I couldn't live with any other set up as the aesthetics would be shot to pieces!

Grum.

scook
 A very high resolution may result in objects being too small. 

I think you missed my point. A high resolution doesn't neccesarily mean the objects will be small. It is the combination of resolution and screen size that determines relative default size of (as you say) screen "objects" (i.e. the pixel density per area). For instance: a 1920x1080 22"  has about the same pixel density per area as a 2560x1600 30", but the 30" is a higher resolution monitor and has about twice the real desk space of the 22".
 
My point was: not knowing the resolution of his original 24" monitor or the resolution of the proposed 27" monitor, it is impossible to know if he will gain any real desk space with the larger monitor.
 
 

I understand how screen size and resolution interact. I was making a different point about high resolution monitors and SONAR.

grumbleweed4162
I have my Rokits on the outside of the screens but angled inwards. I only have to move back a little to sit in the sweet spot and being forward of it whilst recording/editing/mixing doesn't do any harm. I couldn't live with any other set up as the aesthetics would be shot to pieces!

Grum.

Same here -  I have my 5" Rokits on wooden stands about a foot outside of the dual screens.   Works nicely.