Dual Monitors

kazakore · June 15, 2011, 10:56am

Been suggested so many time!

Here is the longest (I think) thread on the subject with a nice mock-up in first post.

And my wordy description of how I could see it fitting into the Renoise workflow/GUI

Now a few ideas have been floated around on utilizing dual monitors in Renoise, most of them working with the floating/dockable windows that as far as I understand Renoise has always wanted to avoid. Well a simplistic idea came to me last night of a way to perhaps do it, avoiding floating windows and seeming like it should mainly be a case of reusing existing code so hopefully easier to integrate.

Basically you have what appears to be two instances of Renoise, one on each screen, each interacting with the same song.

You could then configure this however you want. Full-Screen Pattern Editor LHS & Scopes/Mixer/Automation RHS. Disk Browser/Sample Editor/Instrument Settings LHS & Spectrum/Instrument Editor/DSPs RHS. Full-Screen Specturm LHS & Full-Screen Mixer RHS. ETC ETC. You get the idea.

Problems? Would Renoise run it as one extended window? This would require you to have both screen at the same resolution (as far as I can see as a non-programmer anyway.) Would having two separate windows pose a problem? Can both be run in full-screen (F11) mode? Is this too similar to the floating/dockable windows Renoise wants to avoid? Would Renoise auto-sense a dual-screen set-up or what it be a toggleable option? How would the Display shortcuts work? (This one I think is fairly simple. As always you have a Focus so the shortcut applies to whichever screen has the Focused panel.)