You'll love it all the way around when working and mixing.  Cant beat undocking and having things up on different screens.

Makes it soooo easy especially with tabs so you can have all your favorite working screens up.  You can just pop back and forth as needed

Probably wont apply to you but most Nvidia cards are limited to 2 monitors whereas higher end ATI cards can do at least three.. I had always had Nvidia cards until i wanted a third monitor for my synth workstation

I have an Nvidia GTX550 TI and running two 28" Hanns G monitors.  I do both audio and video editing and LOVE the visual real estate.  No way I could go back to one monitor now.

And to think I used to edit video on ONE 19" widescreen.....LOL.

I use dual monitors with X2 on Windows 7 - 64 bit, GeForce GTX-580, M-Audio Delta 1010LT, with 16 GB of ram.  Never had a problem (even when I had 8 GB), and could NEVER imagine going back to using just one monitor.

X1 and X2 are great on two monitors.  I have two 23 inch (or is it 23.5? - who cares) and it's great.  Recently having to do a bit  on one monitor, and wondered how I used  to cope.
 
M favorite setup is to spread X2 over both screens (they're side by side and touching), so you have one really wide monitor.  Can display whole track view at once, or have really wide console view with loads of ProChannel open.
 
On your ProChannel enquiry - Yes, I think ProChannel and it's extra modules are fantastic - Great workflow and great sound.  Now we have Pro Channel  FX Chains in X2, I don't trouble the FX bin.
 
IMHO, ProChannel is worth the price of Producer alone.

hgj1357

Sonar 8 wasn't great for separating windows and workflow onto different monitors.

Not sure why you think that.  I use Sonar 7 and there is plenty of scope for separating different windows.  I have 4 screens and I tend to keep Track View and Piano Roll View permanently open on two of them while the other two get used for different things at different times, e.g. Plugin GUIs, Synth Rack, Console View, Staff View, Tempo View, Help File, Sonar Manual (definitely a good use of screen area).  If I had 6 screens I could easily fill them.

I use triple monitors. Two 22" side by side for the main view and another one above my keyboards as I can't be bothered to turn my head anymore.

I think multiple monitors are great and very useful but on on the X series they are a nice addition to have as opposed to earlier versions where they were IMHO an absolute necessity.

The layout and workflow methods available in the X series, think Screensets, (<---Take note Steve ) have removed that necessity element.

Just to add my tuppence worth.

FastBikerBoy


I use triple monitors. Two 22" side by side for the main view and another one above my keyboards as I can't be bothered to turn my head anymore.  

I really want to do that as well.  currently my video card only supports 2 monitors, but I would love to add another so I can put a screen in front of my keyboards.

Beagle

FastBikerBoy


I use triple monitors. Two 22" side by side for the main view and another one above my keyboards as I can't be bothered to turn my head anymore.  

I really want to do that as well.  currently my video card only supports 2 monitors, but I would love to add another so I can put a screen in front of my keyboards.

If you already have the monitor the expense isn't that great. I have two ATI 5450 cards. One is in the PCIe x16 slot, the other in one of the x8 slots (IIRC).
 
You will need two cards that can use the same driver though. I tried it with two different cards and it was a nightmare although there are some on the web claim it can be done I never got it working, not under windows 7. It seems to me that XP actually had better support for two graphics cards as I ran two different ones under that OS.
 
My MB supports crossfire natively but I believe the cards can be linked with a cable if your MB doesn't. Crossfire is the ATi term I have no idea what NVidea call theirs.
 
It's a nice luxury but I still haven't found any way of extending a desktop across two and cloning the desktop onto the other one. There are workarounds and I'm using DisplayFusionPro which can mirror a monitor or window to the third one but to be honest it's a bit kludgey. I trialled one of the other alternatives and it wasn't much better.
 
Now I just have a keyboard shortcut set up to switch windows between monitors so just do that as required. It is a handy extravagance though.

Kev999

hgj1357

Sonar 8 wasn't great for separating windows and workflow onto different monitors.

Not sure why you think that.  I use Sonar 7 and there is plenty of scope for separating different windows.  I have 4 screens and I tend to keep Track View and Piano Roll View permanently open on two of them while the other two get used for different things at different times, e.g. Plugin GUIs, Synth Rack, Console View, Staff View, Tempo View, Help File, Sonar Manual (definitely a good use of screen area).  If I had 6 screens I could easily fill them.

In 8 the console window and track window both have to remain inside the main sonar window. THe only way to get them in separate monitors is to stretch the main sonar window accross two monitors which I didn't want to do.  I agree that VST GUIs can be all over and that is really nice.