Dual Monitors or Large Widescreen?

xpl2003 · Post by **xpl2003** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:13 pm

I have a TFT 19" Screen at the moment and considering the foloowing upgrade to be able to view more stuff on the screen:

Another 19" Screen - Using a dual video
(I have tried this a while back and the only problem is the mouse moving over to the other screen but this was with the large CRT montiors with a larger gap)

A Single 22" Widescreen
(I have been considering this for a while now as the height is the same as my current monitor but the width is obviously alot larger and can use a 1600 x 1200 ratio compared to 1280 1024)

Please can people give me there feeding on the best choice and what you currently have setup.

I want to be able to view the arrangement view better, view more rack modules and keep synths open etc)

mixmastaroberto · Post by **mixmastaroberto** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:28 pm

adding another 19" would work great and probably be cheaper.

of course you can add the wide screen and run each monitor at a different resolution, so technically it would work just fine if your video card supports it.

is the extra money for the wide screen worth it to you to get X amount of additinal square inches of viewing?

that is probably the question you need to answer for yourself.

good luck. either way you will love it.

ARDJ · Post by **ARDJ** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:29 pm

yeah i went thru this same thing about 4 mos ago. i went with dual 19" LCD's... instead of a 28" or 30". it's just too cost effective to do what i do and trust me the work space is plenty! i dont know if the worksapce on 1 22" will be enough tbh.

you can see from this screen shot how much room i have

http://www.anthonyross.net/battery.JPG

glu · Post by **glu** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:43 pm

heyheyhey i see booty... on that desktop..

19" widescreen looks good enough for me. I am used to a 15.4 notebook widescreen, anything larger would be great. Until abes code the ability to see the session mixer and the arranger DAW view simultaneously, I am holding off on buying two LCDs..

tjwett · Post by **tjwett** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:10 pm

do you use anything other than Live at the same time? if so, then two monitors would be good. but if not, you might be happier with one big one since Live doesn't support dual displays.

jb61264 · Post by **jb61264** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:22 pm

I just bought another exact replica of the existing 17" monitor I was using and I LOVE having dual monitors. Even though Live doesn't officially support this, it works great because I have my "full screen" mode set so that it fully occupies one monitor and my "reduced screen" mode such that it spreads out across both screens (if I want/need more tracks). Having Live on one screen and then being able to have Reason or Stylus open on another is SO much nicer...if I'm just working in Reason now too...I can split up the sequencer track from my rack...MUCHO MACHO!

ARDJ · Post by **ARDJ** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:26 am

glu wrote:heyheyhey i see booty... on that desktop..

19" widescreen looks good enough for me. I am used to a 15.4 notebook widescreen, anything larger would be great. Until abes code the ability to see the session mixer and the arranger DAW view simultaneously, I am holding off on buying two LCDs..

booty? oh you must be refering to my "inspiration"

Steve Christian · Post by **Steve Christian** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:50 am

I've worked with two screens in the past and I went with just one 23" Apple Cinema display and to me, it's as good as having two separate screens. Besides, I'd always lose the damn mouse pointer with two screens so I get more done now

I must admit though, most of my composing is within Logic so having the environment and the arrange split horizontally on a screen big enough to be workable was really all I was looking for.