Plug-in Manager, which provides a way to rename and organise plug-ins. Discwelder Bronze: Trial version for burning DVD-Audio discs. Each of the utilities, as follows, needs to be installed separately. Click on 'Install', then on 'Install Utilities'. In which case you may have missed the options to install some MFX (MIDI FX) and utilities.To install these, close any open programs, then insert the Sonar installation CD (you won't need the serial number for this aspect of installation). Over the couple of months that I've been using Double Desktop I've experienced no stability problems or other glitches.When you clicked on the Install option of the Sonar 4 installation disk, there's a good chance you clicked 'Install Sonar 4 ' and left it at that. To return to normal, just exit the program. What's more, if you're already running a dual-monitor system, each desktop becomes a dual-monitor desktop, so essentially you have two pairs of two screens.To make it easy to know which desktop you're on, you can choose different wallpaper for the second desktop and change icon label colours separately for both desktops.

Or you could drag all your soft-synth interfaces to one desktop and switch between working with Sonar itself and editing synth sounds. It stays there until you exit the program. Best of all, it's free for non-commercial use.You might set up the console view in the 'extended' desktop while the main desktop shows the track view, which you would do by 'pushing' the console into the other desktop, switching, then dragging it the rest of the way.

This efficient system-tray utility doubles the width of your desktop, then lets you switch between the two halves using an arrow button in the system tray (or a hot key). If you've found yourself wanting a way to organise your desktop differently, visit and download Double Desktop. Although Sonar lets you save screen layouts and recall them, it's not as useful as a dual-monitor system. By Craig AndertonMore screen space without having to buy a second monitor - just one of the Sonar nuggets we've got for you this month.With any modern sequencing host, not just Sonar, it seems there's never enough screen space.

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