Consolidated Windows gone forever...is there a way.

[dhelpling]

I don't use the Consolidated Windows feature at all and I would like to turn it off. I have done so (as much as I can in prefs) but several new windows default to Consolidated...this kills my workflow (Yes, I am old school DP - life was better before CW).

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Funny. I always HATED the CW, but once I started using it and learning the ins and outs, I simply cannot live without it. To each his own, of course, and i get your distaste for the CW. I wish the tabs could be configurable. but I do like having a 100% reliable location for certain windows and along with DP key commands switching the screens in the CW (and the ability to pop windows in and out via a key (I think CMD-1 is the default to do that) I find it very convenient. I also like better Snap Tool to move between three screens when a window is popped out.

[labman]

Funny. I always HATED the CW, but once I started using it and learning the ins and outs, I simply cannot live without it.

Same here. Despised it for a long time. Now love it, though I float mixer etc above it.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

...I float mixer etc above it.

90% of the time I have the mixer in a second monitor. Even with just a few tracks, it simply doesn't fit into the CW very well. If we could customize what we see a little more extensively, it could fit in the CW. Frankly (and oddly) the one thing I almost never touch in he mixer is the faders. If I could select to not see them, the CW and the mixer would play much better together. Until then, I'm going to have to keep them separated.

[bayswater]

I don't use the Consolidated Windows feature at all and I would like to turn it off. I have done so (as much as I can in prefs) but several new windows default to Consolidated...this kills my workflow (Yes, I am old school DP - life was better before CW).

You will find threads on this from a year or two ago. The upshot is you can't make the CW go away, I get around it by using screensets assigned to easily accessed key commands to bring up single window layouts. But as others said, the CW feature is really useful, for example, when starting up a new empty project with a few tracks assigned to physical channels and all the monitoring and info windows in the sidebars.

[Robert Randolph]

I don't use the Consolidated Windows feature at all and I would like to turn it off. I have done so (as much as I can in prefs) but several new windows default to Consolidated...this kills my workflow (Yes, I am old school DP - life was better before CW).

You will find threads on this from a year or two ago. The upshot is you can't make the CW go away, I get around it by using screensets assigned to easily accessed key commands to bring up single window layouts. But as others said, the CW feature is really useful, for example, when starting up a new empty project with a few tracks assigned to physical channels and all the monitoring and info windows in the sidebars.

Yes, screensets are the way out here. Get everything setup how you want, then save it as a screenset. It helps to use multiple ones for different workflows.

That said, I'm going to also say that I really like the CW. It's worth getting used to.

[Tritonemusic]

Frankly (and oddly) the one thing I almost never touch in he mixer is the faders. If I could select to not see them, the CW and the mixer would play much better together.

MLC, you can hide them if you wish. In the upper right-hand corner of the Mixer you can see a tiny little triangle pointing to the right (the screenshot is hiding it). Click on that and you'll see a list of things you can include/exclude in the Mixer view.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Thanks, man! I've used that window a bit but never thought to kill the faders that way. Cool!

[Michael Canavan]

You can turn off individual windows from opening up in the Consolidated Window, in Preferences.
I've had some instances where they pop back in, but for the most part it works.

[dhelpling]

Thanks Michael - that's what I've been doing, but any new window defaults to consolidated, I then need to "pop it out" and open another window. Just another process between me and the music that I would like to avoid.

[buzzsmith]

Thanks Michael - that's what I've been doing, but any new window defaults to consolidated, I then need to "pop it out" and open another window. Just another process between me and the music that I would like to avoid.

Yes.

When I first open a project, select a MIDI track and use the Shift G command it almost always goes to the Consolidated Window.

I use to try the pop out function but I had to repeat it for every window that was present.

Finally(!) learned to just close the CW and subsequent shift Gs were back to normal.

Buzzy


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[MikeInBoston]

It really is "to each his own". I love the CW. I never seriously considered using DP in the old days because of how "messy" all the screenshots looked with all those little windows strewn about the desktop.

However, one window that I use often needs to be added to the CW. I can't understand why MOTU did not add the CLIPPINGS window, which is always getting lost behind my main window. And to copy anything to the CLIPPINGS window, I have to shrink my main window to do it.

Anyway, I'm still a happy camper using DP. I can't imagine using anything else.

Mike

[bayswater]

I can't understand why MOTU did not add the CLIPPINGS window, which is always getting lost behind my main window.

Great idea. Clippings in a sidebar would be great. I'd like to be able to put Tracks in a Sidebar too just to get the track name list with one or two columns of settings.

[Phil O]

Thanks Michael - that's what I've been doing, but any new window defaults to consolidated, I then need to "pop it out" and open another window. Just another process between me and the music that I would like to avoid.

I see the same thing. I have everything un-checked in preferences, but it just seems to ignore those preferences. It's been that way for some time now. It's annoying but I haven't been annoyed enough to contact MOTU, and I'd like to experiment and find the exact sequence of events that produces the issue before submitting a tech link (but I haven't had the time to do that). Perhaps it's time.

Phil

[FMiguelez]

Thanks Michael - that's what I've been doing, but any new window defaults to consolidated, I then need to "pop it out" and open another window. Just another process between me and the music that I would like to avoid.

I see the same thing. I have everything un-checked in preferences, but it just seems to ignore those preferences. It's been that way for some time now. It's annoying but I haven't been annoyed enough to contact MOTU, and I'd like to experiment and find the exact sequence of events that produces the issue before submitting a tech link (but I haven't had the time to do that). Perhaps it's time.

Phil

It stopped doing that for me when, in addition to unchecking all the windows, I also put 0 or 1 as the "Number of Allowed Rows” in the Prferences, next to th checkboxes.