I've always been a huge advocate of more than one monitor, I even have three on my system but since the introduction of X1 with screensets and the "instant appearing multidock" I've found that without intending it I've drifted to mainly operating on one monitor.
 
I've just ordered two new ones as my system is a bit of a monitor mis-match mess, i.e. all different sizes and resolutions and thought long and hard before I ordered two.
 
It dawned on me that I hardly ever use them both now as I did in previous pre-X1 versions. I found them almost essential then but now they are a nice luxury. I'm planning on using these two as one stretched desktop screen rather than two seperate ones.
 
Has that happened to anyone else?

No I have been with two monitors since back in the Pro Audio days.  I think they're not as essential as they used to be but still for me essential. This may be due in part to having wide screens.

Besides all my old projects come up on two screen.

None the less I have noticed when I was down a monitor for a short time it was not as awful as I thought it would be. I was glad to be back to the two though.

It certainly happened to me Karl. I purposely moved my DAW onto a super duper laptop and I made sure that said laptop had the capability of running two monitors.

I already had two large monitors from my other DAW and I used to have the main Sonar window on the main (left) monitor and my Console was always open on the right monitor.

When I first set up my laptop I made sure that everything worked and tested my "external" monitors and all was fine.

I have not used those monitors since that day. Multidock has to be the reason for that, for me. I must admit that I've not bothered with screen sets. Probably due to my simple-ish work flow and I'm finding that toggling between track view and console, using D, is good enough for my needs. I find that I never need to really see my console while tracking, and I just have track view visible. And also while editing too. And when I'm mixing and generally messing with effects and levels, I switch to console. And I have console view, or the Multidock fully maximized.

I moved to one big 27" monitor in the studio from two 19" monitors. I find that due to the MultiDock and ProChannel, etc I spend most of my time on one monitor. It certainly wouldn't bother me to have some monitors flanking my main monitor, but I prefer one big seamless picture in the middle now for sure.

I also prefer one picture, but I would like to upgrade my 27" screen to something larger, 30" or preferably bigger.  PC-type screens only seem to go to 30", but I've seen larger screens in photos of pro studios so I assume they use TVs, but aren't they pixel-y by comparison? 

Karl,

Yes, I have pretty much moved towards one screen as well. Before X1 I would always have the TV and CV open on separate monitors and windows popping up all over the place for the PRV and SF. Theses days I have all that stuff docked in the MultiDock at the bottom of the primary monitor. I just hit "D" to switch to the CV. Once in a while I will move the Multidock to the secondary monitor for a particular workflow but I could live in X2 with only one monitor and have no problem getting things done.  For most of my other computing needs I prefer a double monitor set up. Although, the thought of going to a single monitor has crossed my mind at times. 

Skyline_UK


I also prefer one picture, but I would like to upgrade my 27" screen to something larger, 30" or preferably bigger.  PC-type screens only seem to go to 30", but I've seen larger screens in photos of pro studios so I assume they use TVs, but aren't they pixel-y by comparison? 

Yes, a 30" screen is great for Sonar, as you get 1600 pixels of vertical real estate.  If many people finding a single monitor is a measure of success, then I guess the skylight interface is a resounding success for CW.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from getting two monitors but I think the X series has certainly made them less essential than before.

At one stage I even had my third monitor reserved for VST windows in an effort to manage them. Now of course the PC has done away with that need. My usual set up used to be TV on one and CV and/or PRV on the other but the multidock has done away with the need for that as well.

I even have a "meter bridge" type screenset now for when I do want both at once. I guess I'm getting too lazy to move my head/eyes....

  i'm using a 55" LG Flatscreen 1080P TV, and loving it... [not pixel-y]..... Since i am using an HDMI input on the TV it is as good as any monitor running at 1920 x 1080. ................. If you want higher res than 1920 x 1080 then thats where you need a proper monitor.

I use a 40" led at my main desk and a 20" touch screen over my keyboard mounted on a vesa arm thingy so I flick Sonar to the touch when I compose with no need for horrid mousing, but in both cases I use a single monitor.

Used to do an eyefinity setup with 3x24" but multi monitor setups give me a headache after a day of having my head of center looking at the side monitors.

Just want more screensets please, I'm already using all slots