Console View: Fit to screen?

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In Sonar 2.2XL, is there a way to get the console view to fit on the screen? I don't use the console view much, even though I'd like to, because I can only see half of what's going on, and all that scrolling gets old fast.

Ptron
 
Have a couple of options... if you have extra tracks up that you don't want to use, turn them off in Console View... In the console view window, the button that has tick's and crosse's above it allows you to check which tracks/busses you want to see...

Second option is if you have two windows, enable floating on the console screen then drag it across both screens. :D

Porter
 
The best way to do it (IMHO), is to use Layouts (View -> Layouts). There you can save a window layout (really?!? :D) and recall it with the hit of a key (check out Options -> Key Bindings). :)
 
My problem is not too many tracks, i.e. a left right thing, it's an up down thing. If the faders and meters are in full view, then the FX bins and buss sends are out of it, and vice versa. So when I'm twiddling an effect, I can't immediatly see or make level adjustments.

I think I see what you're saying, Moskus. I was just hoping there was a way to shrink it so that rigermaroll would be unecessary. Maybe Sonar3 Can do this?

By the way, why is the console view so oversized?!? Did I get the version for the visually impaired?

Ptron
 
What screen resolution are you using?

If you increase the resolution, you'll get a bigger viewable area.

Either that or you'll need a bigger monitor
 
A bigger moitor with the same resolution won't do anything... just try increasing your resolution first... on my main monitor I run 1280 X 960 and on my secondary monitor I run 1024 X 768

Porter
 
Porter, just out of interest why do you use two monitors?
 
Because it makes live easier! :D

You have the Track View on one monitor and the console (or whatever) on the other monitor. You get around Sonar much easier.
 

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Bulls,

Same as Moskus, however I tend just to have all of my effects on the right hand side and switch between console and track view on the left... with Sonar 3, I will most likely be console view on the left and track view on the right because it looks like there are more controls over the effects on the console view :D .

Now the question I ask, is this the second week of October? If so SONAR 3 Producer should be here soon!!!

Porter
 
So how does that actually work? Do you have 2 keyboards as well?
 
Bulls Hit,

You only need one keyboard!

It can be done two ways... either buying a dual out video card or if you have an AGP card, buying a second PCI card (assuming your PC doesn't have a second AGP slot).

Once the second card is installed, just go into Display properties and I think it's under the Settings tab, click on the second monitor and check the box, Extend My Desktop (or something similar to that). The option has been available since Windows 98 (SE I think). You can then set up the location of the second window, ie to the right/left/top/bottome etc.

To use the second window, just drag windows in to it.. it is like having a big desktop. In Sonar, if you right (or left.. at work and can't remember which button) click on a windows top-left and select Enable Floating. Now you can drag it outside of the Sonar screen.

Hope this helps,

Porter
 
I found something about autoresize in Sonar 3 her. Don't know if that's what you're looking for though, and I can't test it out since I don't have Sonar 3 (yet). ;)
 
Moskus,

I'm just curious ....

What is the plugin effect (or else) you have on the right of the Cakewalk FX compressor and below the console view ? This is the blue windows with the horizontal sliders...

:rolleyes:
 
Bulls Hit said:
What screen resolution are you using?

If you increase the resolution, you'll get a bigger viewable area.
Click to expand...
O.K. That's got it. 1024 X 768 gets 98% of it in the monitor. I wish you could resize just the console and not everything else, but I can live with this. Two monitors? ...I think could live with that too. I hope that in the future (as flat screens get cheaper and cheaper) it will be possible to have many monitors, or maybe one or two giant ones, that have most patches/tracks/ whatever you're using, all visible at one time. That's one of the very few beefs I have with computer recording. All that opening, closing, scrolling of windows...man, I'm lazy.

Ptron
 
moskus said:
Then just hit F in the Track View to resize all tracks to fit the screen.... ;)
Click to expand...
That's a nice lttle trick but it don't work none too good in console view;)
 
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