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Old 10-01-2019, 03:21 PM
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Default Free Cakewalk has real dual screen display on Windows

I downloaded the free version of Cakewalk today to help explain a mixing concept to an old friend who uses it...

To my amazement, it features true dual screen support for independent windows. So I could put the mixer on one window and the arranger on the other, with only the single title bar, instead of the crazy title bar stacking in ProTools.

Why is this still a problem?
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Why is this still a problem?
Because the Cakewalk install is totally unnecessary on a PT workstation perhaps?
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Old 10-01-2019, 03:49 PM
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Because the Cakewalk install is totally unnecessary on a PT workstation perhaps?


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Strange answer to an issue LOTS of Windows users find annoying with PT.


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Sorry, sometimes sarcasm translates poorly
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Old 10-01-2019, 04:30 PM
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Sorry, sometimes sarcasm translates poorly


In that case... =)

And yes, sarcasm in text never seems to work. Ha!


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Default Re: Free Cakewalk has real dual screen display on Windows

Cakewalk is one of the best Windows based DAW...no doubt for me , I`ve been using it all my life and will keep on using it till it dies completely...and that looks like a long way how things are showing.

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Cakewalk is one of the best Windows based DAW...no doubt for me , I`ve been using it all my life and will keep on using it till it dies completely...and that looks like a long way how things are showing.

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Sonar innovated things that took Avid years to put in PT and some they still haven't. Along with Sony Soundforge, CD Architect and Acid it was a killer system.

I don't know if the program is still light on cpu usage but in a system that consisted of a Toshiba Satellite 1955 laptop with 2.53 GHz Pentium 4 and 2 gig of ram and Windows 95 I could run 30+ tracks with a mix of vi's and audio and the machine was barely breaking a sweat. FW400 7200 rpm spinners for samples and recording and a TC Powercore FW.
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Old 10-04-2019, 10:53 AM
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Default Re: Free Cakewalk has real dual screen display on Windows

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I downloaded the free version of Cakewalk today to help explain a mixing concept to an old friend who uses it...

To my amazement, it features true dual screen support for independent windows. So I could put the mixer on one window and the arranger on the other, with only the single title bar, instead of the crazy title bar stacking in ProTools.

Why is this still a problem?
That's interesting as I always understood the 'master app window' BS to be an OS level thing, with no solution.

Good to hear, I guess. Now let's get Avid on this. I'm sure it'll rocket up the priority list if we shout loud enough. /s
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In the Windows OS most applications not named Pro Tools allow windows to be separated onto two monitors. I've only tried a handful, but they all do. Samplitude, Studio One, Reaper, etc. Sony/Magix Vegas does the same for video. The "master app" window concept is unique to Pro Tools in my experience. Just guessing, but from my software engineering experience of days gone by, it could have something to do with the UI libraries Avid uses for cross platform development.

That said, I don't find the single window concept anything more than a minor irritation. It's trivial to stretch the main window across both monitors and set up the windows however I like across both. However, I very much like the docked window capabilities of most other apps, and I also like the tab capabilities.

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Good to hear, I guess. Now let's get Avid on this. I'm sure it'll rocket up the priority list if we shout loud enough. /s
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It translated just fine. The problem isn't the translation, it's the attitude. Having the ability to use separate windows, dockers, and tabs helps workflow, and they don't exist in PT. It's a legitimate request, and belittling it makes no sense.


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