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Re: [Logic_Cafe] Logic and big monitors

2007-05-18 by Paul Najar

On 18/05/2007, at 3:34 PM, GAmoore@... wrote:

> I was keen on buying the Dell 30" monitor for $1269 (free shipping,  
> no tax)
> because its supposedly the same screen that apple uses. However, it  
> seems there
> is not a single graphics board I can put in my G5 with PCI slots.  
> So I have
> to give up on that.
>
> Instead I hooked up a 22" and a 19" side by side, and discovered  
> something.
> Both of them are 1024 vertically, and I was able to make really  
> wide windows in
> Logic (arrange, matrix, score, mixers) that span both monitors. The  
> key thing
> was that when I assign them to a screenset they come back the same  
> again. In
> the past, I found that they often came back on a single monitor. Maybe
> something about both monitors having the same vertical resolution  
> allows Logic to
> make these ultra wide screensets easier. I think its so good that I  
> don't need
> the 30" that much anyway.

I've been working with 2 17" monitors 1280 x 1024 for years and never  
had this problem. Perhaps your theory is right. Agreed that one huge  
Arrange across both monitors is fabulous for some things. I actually  
wish I had an easy way of doing a third monitor for a track mixer but  
all my PCI slots are full with UAD's & Audio card.


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Paul Najar
Jaminajar Music Production
www.jaminajar.com




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