Panels And Dialogs Open On Wrong Screen (MacOS)

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Hi,

I have Cubase Pro 14 running on a MacBook with Sonoma 14.7.5. I have an external monitor. With the main Cubase window on the external screen, whenever I open a VST instrument (or any other dialog), it opens on my laptop screen. How can I get all the popup windows to appear on the same screen as Cubase?

If I move the popup window to the external monitor with Cubase, then close that window, then if I open it again, it will appear right where it was on the external screen. However, if I quit Cubase and start it up again, the popup windows revert to the laptop monitor until I move them again.

Is this a Cubase behavior, or something with the MacOS? I haven’t been able to find the right settings. Cubase icon is on my launchpad and I have tried all the settings: All Desktops, Desktop on Display 1, Desktop on Display 2, and None. Same behavior with each setting.

Thanks,
Tim

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Hey there - the “new window open” function follows your “main” or “menu bar” display, indicated by the wee bar at the top of the monitor in the Arrange window:

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In this screenshot, the while bar is on my center XDR display, and all new windows will follow that display. You can just grab that little bar and drag it to whatever monitor you want new windows to pop up on.

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Well, who would have thought? or even seen that? :laughing: I had no idea. Thank you, that did the trick!

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Is that how it works?? Mine seems to open the window up on whatever monitor I happen to be focused on, just like MacOS itself does. If I click to open an app from the dock, when focus is on monitor 2, it opens there. If I close it and then click the desktop on monitor 1 and open the same app, opens on monitor 1.

I hate it when Im in going over the arrangement, touch something in the MixConsole real quick and then open the instrument up, it goes to the damn MixConsole screen because that was where the ‘focus’ was last.

Some plugins seem to ‘remember’ where they last were and just open there as well. MediaBay regardless opens on top of my MixConsole in monitor #2 every time I hit F5, same with the MixConsole itself, always opens up on monitor 2.

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100%. Where any given first opens can be up to the VST. Cubendo will initially launch dialog boxes and their own VSTs (on MacOS) on the “main” monitor irrespective of what monitor the focused app has. If you move it, the next launch follows the last location. e.g. “Create new track” after first launching a new instance of Cubendo will display that dialog in the MacOS “main” menu. If you added HALion, that too launches on “main.” If you then moved HALion to different monitor and close it, it loads in the new location. If you move the Create Track dialog before creating the track and close it, subsequent opens follow the new location. Same for things like “Edit Channel Settings.”

Workspace settings will “override” this, and N14 remembers things like “new track dialog position” through restarts of the app. This is just my own observation with my own stack o’ plugins and use cases :slight_smile: