And I'm on one monitor. I'd be buried in GUI madness without the MD just like I was in Nuendo. I also don't need to hunt around FX bins to bring them back to the surface or have a bunch of minimize screens obscuring the bottom of my window. IDK... I guess I don't understand the question. Seems to me I could have it the old style way if I really wanted to.

@Jonesey... I've just been using the PRV note/track filters instead of having multiple views. Once I figured that one out my life got a lot easier. I may be missing a benefit of multiple PRVs though but the filters seem to do what I want.

Yes Beep, I sometimes use them when working with sub-groups of instruments, like all strings/brass etc

Excuse my ignorance, Jonesey but if I select all the midi tracks in the project, then select PRV then I can filter through them however I want. Or do you mean you select a sub group of instruments for one PRV and another sub group for the next allowing you to bounce back and forth quickly? hmm... actually, I should be doing that. Interesting. Cheers.

Take a simple example.

I'll have 4 separate docked PRV's for Bass, Cello, Violas & Violins, and a 5th for all the strings

It's just the way I like to work - everything I want to see is just one click away

SteveStrummerUK

FastBikerBoy


By tool bars do you mean control bar? That definitely shouldn't be obscured when maximising. I sometimes wish that was an option. 

Karl, I think the OP is referring to this...
 
In the Console View, click on the Restore option (in the top-left corner).
 
Now select Enable Floating.
 
Finally, click on Maximise and it will fill the whole screen, obscuring the Control Bar.

Hi Steve - yeah I can see that but the OP's asking how to stop docking because of the problems. As you've discovered you can only create those problems by not docking - or at least they don't happen here using the dock 

SteveStrummerUK


I only use the Browser because we no longer have the Synth Rack (View),.

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Ah. I am not alone on that one then!

Beepster


Excuse my ignorance, Jonesey but if I select all the midi tracks in the project, then select PRV then I can filter through them however I want. Or do you mean you select a sub group of instruments for one PRV and another sub group for the next allowing you to bounce back and forth quickly? hmm... actually, I should be doing that. Interesting. Cheers.

I'll butt in if I may. You can open a PRV select the tracks you want to see in that PRV and then lock it (Right click on tab) - Open another PRV select a load of tracks in that - lock it - rinse and repeat as many times as you want.
 
Then you can switch between them as you wish using the tabs or Ctrl+Shift+arrow keys, and as Colin points out they all have their independent zoom level as well. It is a super fast way of working that I absolutely love. (Maybe I should make a video of it - it's quite an improvement over V4. )
 
That technique will also work with any other view except the CV which can only have one open at a time.

Many of us have dual monitors to have it our way. With more than one monitor you have the luxury of saving a project with whatever view/s floated on the other screen you want. When you open that project it will be just as you left it. 

As to the complaint of maximizing a view and it obscures windows behind it. Who would of ever thunk? To my knowledge its always been like that with Windows.

  

I have always bounced around between two or more monitors - I currently have three but TBH the X series has almost made them redundant.

In fact I now use two of them for a stretched full screen view and the third is just for use when I'm working at my keyboards. The multidock, inspector, all the keyboard shortcuts and of course the jewel in the crown - SCREENSETS have made working so much easier IMHO. I'm no longer juggling the display, just working.

I agree though that I wish the synth rack was separate from the browser. I get round that by docking the rack view in the multidock but it'd be nice to have that view and still have the browser available as a separate entity. My other wish is for the Control Bar visibility state to be included in screensets.