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Just got myself a second LCD monitor and now I know what I''ve been missing all these years. Very cool to have Scope on one screen and my sequencer on the other. But I wanted to check a few things.

When I boot up, should Scope automatically appear in the second screen or do I have to drag stuff over there every time? I guess I was under the impression that you could configure things so they popped up automatically in both screens. As you can tell, I'm a newb with this dual-monitor stuff. Any feedback or comments about this are welcome.

Save your startproject.pro with the live bar on your second screen and it should re-open that way. That's the way I use it. You may have to save any old projects with the new configuration.

/dave

yes, you'll have to save that way. then it'll stay. sometimes popup messages will fool you by popping up on the wrong side, but...

Some devices will arrive on monitor 1 anyway
Can't remeber witch, but as i recall, it's some SpaceF mixer or switches
Should have told SpaceF, but i forgot........

after it opens then, just drag it to the right screen. don't spend time worrying about non-showstoppers.....

after it opens then, just drag it to the right screen. don't spend time worrying about non-showstoppers.....

agree garyb, but i'm shure it's a easy fix if known

yes, i'm fed up moving the optimaster master meter on each startup i.e...

Now that I have a few days of experience behind me.... I'm an expert

Seriously, now I see what's happening here. I have my primary monitor on the right (or front) and my secondary monitor on the left. SFP is always on the left side. It's just the nature of my desk and layout.

A few things, oddities I've noticed:

If I place the live bar too close to the edge of the screen (bottom right hand side) some of the pull down menus extend over into the right hand side monitor. Is that just the nature of the beast? Or any way to fix that.

Even though I have most stuff over on the left, when I pull up plugins they always appear first in the right hand monitor. Then I have to drag them over. Once I drag them over and save the project, all is cool. But I am imagining a nightmare of opening and dragging stuff to get it to stick. Again... nature of the beast or is there a better solution?

The primary monitor should be placed on the Left and others (Second or Third) monitors should be on the Right!
Reason, when you first open any applications, by default, the GUI is opened and has X/Y screen coordinating at X and Y positions = 0 of primary monitor, which is exactly at TOP and LEFT of (single) monitor.
Of course, then you can save its screen positions on the way you wanted! However, again, keep in mind that it is the way how it works!

LongStudios

Thanks for explaining that. Unfortunately, that kind of messes with my desk layout a bit. I guess I'll just grin and bear it for now until another solution presents itself. But now I understand.

thanks Lhong
I indeed struggled also with 'main' monitor and left/right positions, and I'm glad Wacom allowes to change left/right position and menu bar location freely.
But in the end I have it working like I want to:

Right monitor carries the OS menu bar, and contains Cubase SX.

The left monitor is for editors and Cubase mixer, or other stuff like I.E.

Both monitors this way serve the OSX/Cubase mac.

At the same time the left monitor is the one that switches by the KVM switcher, to serve SFP on my second mac (with OS9 and Scope cards).
I was used to have SFP left, and wanted to keep that.

The Wacom tablet and comp. keyboard are also switched of course, but here it comes:
I have connected a mouse directly to one of the usb ports of the 'right' mac (OSX), and as the right monitor has the OSX menu bar, I have acces to all functions of the right OSX screen while at the same time being switched to the left monitor/OS9 SFP mac!

I always have full acces to both monitors/macs, tho the mouse is there for 'smaller' jobs of course if keyboard and pen are switched to the other mac.
Nothing revolutionary, I admit, yet I feel a bit proud of it (I'm with stupid)

Happily the Wacom tablet settings allow to adjust the speed of the pointer!
If working on two monitors, the speed has a certain -choosen- level.
If switched to the left monitor/OS9 mac, the pointer should move at a two times higher formal level to get the same speed feeling compared to working on two monitors/one computer!
It was a piece of cake to find out how to do that, Wacom is fantastic.
(you just have to have installed the tablet software on both macs of course).

Got a bit OT, but relevant or interesting here anyway I think
cheers.

Note: printer and scanner, both usb, are also switched by the KVM switcher, and it works, isn't that great?!
The usb hub connected to the KVM switch even isn't powered (normaly the hungry tablet definitely needs that), but it emulates being powered, how about that ?

windows does allow you to choose which moinitor is primary, left or right, however.