Multi Monitor Support! Decks in one monitor with browser in the other!

I, like a lot of DJs I know use more than one monitor. Personally I use a 14" laptop with a 22" or 24" LCD as my primary display centered where I run traktor from so I can see everything clearly.

At least for me, laptop screens are too small when you are working with 3-4 decks and have to constantly be looking up and down between a complicated mixer, midi controller, and turntables and I need to be able to see what I'm doing when I look back up without squinting.

This is all ok except for the issue which has been covered regarding fullscreen issues with multiple monitors where you can only go full screen and even expand the window to the same size as your primary display, and most DJs use a larger LCD with much higher resolution than their laptop displays so they are forced to set the secondary monitor as primary to display Traktor on it.

Now it is probably a long way away but it would be purely awesome if Traktor supported multiple monitor interfaces where you could run you decks on one display and the track browser on another. And even take it a huge step further and allow the option of splitting up different decks and elements of Traktor and customizing them to different displays.

For example, it would be great If you could Assign two decks to one monitor and Two decks to another. I have been considering switching to a micro tower PC for DJing instead of a laptop which would allow up to four monitors. So imagine a three monitor setup with Two decks each on the left and right monitor with a full browser on the middle monitor. I know all that is a long shot but at the very least fixing the full screen bug would be useful and allowing a dual monitor option moving the browser to a separate monitor from the decks would be fantastic.

 

Yep, I love the idea of being able to separate A & B from C & D. I definitely use multiple monitors and no matter how big your monitor is, when you go with a 4 turntable setup, it is just plain cluttered and you have very few tracks available for view in your browser.

 

Well written Patrick.
+++ Separating decks and browser
+++ Seperating
1. A&B (low profile lcd ?)
2. C&D (low profile lcd ?)
4. Browser

(Better than my suggestion about putting A-D in a row on same screen)

 

I now have a 3 monitor/desktop setup and would love to be able to take advantage of it with Traktor.

 

Please make this happen NI! Please, please, please

 

+1 .. with the increasing availability of USB displays, it becomes more feasible to even have multiple monitors on the go.

 

Traktor needs to be dual monitor I agree 100 %. An essential upgrade!

Browser on one screen and decks on the other. OR A+B on one and C+D on the other.

Triple screen would also be superb - but that is luxury.

 

+1. The browser should be detachable.

 

+ 1

Would be ideal if all elements were detachable / rearrangable as separate windows. I would love to create a custom controller with screens purely for the waveform display and browser, all other controls having hardware counterparts. Imagine two separate "deck controllers" either side of an external mixer - each with a small LCD screen containing the tracks waveform display. Wouldn't need to look at the laptop screen at all.

Considering programing something like this myself - would need to clone regions of the traktor display into separate moveable windows. Not sure exactly how to go about it but can't be too hard. Somone appears to be having a go already:

http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5489

 

+ 1

I like the ability to arrange the 'objects' how you like as well.

 

++++

hell yes, this would be great....also help with the whole "are you djing or checking your email" cliche.

 

-1

Nice fairy godmother wishes that I'd enjoy too but
it is easy enough to program a hotkey to toggle the fullscreen browser.

Besides, there are far more important related issues to fix:

Allow us to remove the browser altogether so that we can see all decks and FX and cuepoints on an 800 pixel high screen.

Allow us to resize the the hotkey programming screen. If NI can't figure out how to do that after all these years then I don't think your grander wishes have any hope of realisation.

 

+1

 

+1

http://www.gscreencorp.com/IMG_1987-Spacebook-blackWIN001a-title1000.jpg

 

Not looking for the title "party pooper" but the issue has been discussed in previous traktor on the record sessions and they don't have any plans of making traktor modular. They have mentioned that certain different pre-set display modes could be an option but from what I've understood the modular GUI is a big no no

However a big +1 from me anyhow

 

+1

even just being able to fully detach the music browser and put it on a second screen (and not having it show then on the screen with the decks) would help a lot imho

 

+1

 

+1

Can't believe this hasn't been done. Almost seems like a natural progression of the program!

 

I can, becaue you can assign a keyboard shortcut to toggle "browser-only". More useful would be the option to not display a browser window at all.

As it stands I cannot display 4 Decks + Cross Fader + FX on a 1280x800 screen which would be remedied if I could hide the browser window because it currently forces 2.5 lines of browser onto me.

Using TSP in fullscreen mode in Windows XP isn't as good as it may seem because ALT-TAB does not work as it should. If you have more than two windows the order of the windows is shuffled. ALT-TAB works fine in with TSP "Maximised" (rather than fullscreen) but that does waste a few lines. This is a MicroSlop probllem not an NI problem it seems.

 

http://www.native-instruments.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102886

sqgl, I have this exact same problem; getting rid of the browser all together would be perfect! I don't even use it anyway, I just drag and drop from i-Tunes. I'm considering purchasing a new and bigger screen to accommodate everything, but stuck on the smallest i can get away with.

I know everything can be seen on a screen with res 1680*1050 and know everything can't be seen on a screen with res 1280*800. Thing is there are a few in available resolutions in between, and cost is a huge factor at the mo. Wonder if its possible to force a larger resolution onto a screen that normally wouldn't accept it?