DUAL MONITOR SUPPORT (added some GRAPHIC DRAFTS)

Poster · Post by **Poster** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:25 pm

although I like this very much, I can see one flaw in having 2 views in 1 Live window;

you have to make sure you have 2 of the same monitors,
with the exact same resolution and the same screen size (inch)..

otherwise its almost undoable to have the middle divider exactly in the middle of the 2 screens and still fill out both screens..

e.maynard · Post by **e.maynard** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:32 pm

Not a single person will be disappointed if Live 7 included dual monitor support. They could still add it (and ought to) before it's finally released!

This may win over a few last die hards looking for a more DAW ready version of Live.

DO IT!!

cabletone · Post by **cabletone** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:35 pm

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:44 pm

Poster wrote:although I like this very much, I can see one flaw in having 2 views in 1 Live window;

you have to make sure you have 2 of the same monitors,
with the exact same resolution and the same screen size (inch)..

otherwise its almost undoable to have the middle divider exactly in the middle of the 2 screens and still fill out both screens..

actually your video driver should handle this, I used to use a 19 and a 17. It was perfectly fine having one screen slightly smaller than the main one. I would much rather display all this information, even if it is slightly smaller than not at all.

I certainly don't think Ableton should avoid this feature just because some people might have mismatched monitors. Otherwise they should avoid "nice sound" because some people might have bad speakers.
Even a mis-matched setup will be beneficial. We won;t be seeing it in L7 though, that's for sure.

silicon1138 · Post by **silicon1138** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:57 am

Dual screen support +1

Mlange2000 · Post by **Mlange2000** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:20 pm

Funny: In the Logic Forums, everybody is happy about the "new killer feature":
Single Window management.
In this forum everybody is whining about the the single window...

Add just an expandable mixer to the arrange view ( like Logic) and I´m totally fine

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:27 pm

yes, but we don't have a one page view, we have a two page view. But the two pages cannot be seen at the same time.

If the Logic users had to go to a different place to see the mixer and the 'Session' , I'm sure the new feature would be a lot less well received.

brunob · Post by **brunob** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:09 am

Live interface is great imho (simple, effective), but I agree,

+1

seansfoot · Post by **seansfoot** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:19 am

e.maynard wrote:Not a single person will be disappointed if Live 7 included dual monitor support. They could still add it (and ought to) before it's finally released!

This may win over a few last die hards looking for a more DAW ready version of Live.

DO IT!!

Fully agree.

Great designs original poster!

I've been keeping an eye on Live 7 (currently using Cubase as my DAW and sick to hell of the problems), and just registered to send this message to abes:

Dual screen support is important enough to me (workflow) that the addition of what has been shown here in this thread would be enough to win me over and I would buy Live 7 outright TOMMORROW.

YOU CAN DO EET!!

Soma · Post by **Soma** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:22 pm

I have a 30" monitor in my studio and would love to see two views like this side-by-side too.

friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:06 pm

flipper wrote:HI

The thing is this; with proper dual monitor support they could sort out how people 'want' to use Live - the ability to set-up the gui to suit; detach midi edit to second monitor or perhaps spread the session and arrange views.

Goodness knows the gui needs to get better.

Flipper.

yes yes yes!

Sono-D · Post by **Sono-D** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:12 am

needed to bump this... we need an upadate for this feature

nowtime · Post by **nowtime** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:51 pm

+ 1 million.

duh!

Airbase · Post by **Airbase** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:19 pm

Adding my + as well. It's silly this isn't in there already.

dys4ik · Post by **dys4ik** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:13 pm

Absolutely want this.