Using Two Screens to Increase Productivity

Up until this point I have been using my laptop with Studio One to produce most of my music. It's worked for me but I wanted a setup that would help my production process move along more smoothly.

So I went out and bought a cheap monitor to connect to my laptop so that I would have two screens to work with. Already I can tell this was a good choice. I have my main DAW screen on the monitor (because it's bigger than my laptop), and then on my laptop screen I have the mixer or track editor in full screen mode.

This setup accomplishes a couple of different things. It's nice to have the mixer on a second screen so that it doesn't get in the way of things on the main screen. Now I can just leave it up there the whole time and if I need to make a quick adjustment on one of the tracks I can do it immediately since I already have the mixer up. 

Having the full screen mixer in Studio One allows me to see all of the effects that are assigned to each track. I no longer have to expand anything to see which effects are on each particular track.

The two screen setup is great with Studio One. If you want to try it out, you can find plenty of affordable monitors on Amazon. It's really easy to set up and definitely worth a try.