One Big Monitor vs Dual Monitors for your studio?

Yesterday was the first time I used a single monitor in four years. I have two dell 20inch monitors, which have been great. My new PC has only one DVI port, so I'm using just one 20 inch monitor. Would you keep the dual 20 inch monitors or go for one 24/22 inch single monitor. I mainly use Maschine, FL 10, Ableton. Thanks for any suggestions.

 

I would use two.. the larger real estate is nice on a 22/24.. but not when you want two programs open.. so one for maschine and one for your DAW..

Even though your PC has a single DVI port..does it not have VGA or HDMI as a second port?.. if not you can buy a USB>VGA adaptor that would run a 20"

 

Most in the one monitor port situation opt to put the mixer on the laptop screen and everything arrange or GUI on the monitor. It's hard at times but not as bad. If you can get a dual monitor adaptor may'be that will help you because in the long run you may want to see more like you are used to.

 

Apart from the already mentioned advantages wrt a dedicated monitor for different apps...when you get to linear sequencing, the horizontal real estate a dual monitor set up provides is essential (to me).

 

I went from 2 19" monitor to one 27". It was a good move for me. Both setup are benificial. But I like the single 27 more just because I can see everything clearer and with 19's I was running out of realestate alot of time on one screen. and would find myself using both monitor to look at mixer in protools.

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Since we r on the muiltiscreen talk and needing room for multiple programs. Maybe some one can help or maybe this could turn to a suggested feature in 1.7-2.0.

So now we have vst support. Well I like to throw a tuner on a group so I can see what keys the samples are in. Sometimes I use waves tune because the gtune doesn't always work.

And- we may put a vst on group h or just another pad in the group. For routing. Maybe sidechian workaround or whatever.

The problem is.. once you touch the pad you want to hear threw said fx. The vst dissapears. Even if you throw it up on another screen. It needs to stay upso i can tweak on it while I play. I don't like to guess then go back, I tweak with my ears. So this is a major f'n problem for me.

So an extra screen with maschine really matters nothing right now.

 

I went from 17" to 23" and although it was a massive improvement I find myself wanting a bigger monitor. I think 27"+ is the way to go.

 

Yeah, that is a problem. Maschine needs to be able to pin the plug-in windows so they can stay open. I like the way that works in Studio one and Reaper 4. If you are on windows you can use jbridge and put the plug-in you want to stay locked in separate GUI mode and make it stay put until you close it yourself.

 

Oh what's your opinion on the jbridge? I'm going to google how to do it right now.

 

I went from a 23" + 19" combo to a 27". I'm actually torn. The 27" is nice, but I find myself wanting another screen dedicated to the piano roll or vst. I"d like to add a 23" to the 27", but I don't really have the desk space...

 

^ damn it, now I'm jealous.

 

My 27" was massive when I first got it. Now it feels perfect and I couldn't use anything else!

 

few words of explanation:

- todays DAWs (except Ableton) allow you to use multiple monitors to split the content. in example - on one monitor you can have track view, on second - cosole (mixer) view.

In my project I use 2 graphic cards and four monitors:
1 and 2 for DAW, 3 and 4 for plugins, Explorer window (drag&drop for samples etc) or visualisation (help-screen) for especially writen Control Surface for Behringer BCR.
Behringer BCF goes in Mackie mode.

The clue is - to put int your computer two DIFFERENT graphic cards (you have to put ATI and nVidia together) with similar specs. In this case there won't be any problems with SLI, Crossfire and no drivers problems. Just put the cards, install drivers and enjoy your 4 monitor outputs

DAW is Sonar X1c. Great for production, unfortunately it has some issues: mapping (they call it ACT) isn't as great as in Ableton, and it doesn't work as well with KORG synthesizers plugin-editors like Cubase.
In a fact only Cubase works with Korg synthesizers plugins (I mean plugin editors for microX, X50, M50, M3) as it should be. Sonar, Ableton - have problems with MIDI configuration with these plugins.
But in other side - CUBASE is most illogical and user-unfriendly DAW I've ever seen.

 

Adrian4u - what size are your two large monitors?
I'm also running Sonar X1c but with two 27 INCH HP monitors and one 24 inch Gateway - using a Matrox M9138 LP graphics card with 3 display port outputs. My audio monitors sit on the side of the 27 inch monitors and I have the 24 inch monitor off to the right of my main set up...but the 27 inch monitors cause my speakers to be over 52 inches apart. So I'm considering switching to all 24 inch monitors to bring my speakers a little closer together.

 

I used to be a two monitor person, now I like one. It's just a 23" thought.

 

I m have 24' inch monitors planning to have 27'

 

Main LCD's are LG - few years old - 22 inch, 1650x1050pix.
I was considering change to 1920x1200pix, but so far I can't find good deal.

Speakers (6,5" Paradigm Monitor 3 v1) stay on the sides of 1,8m (I don't know how it'll be in inches) desk.

small LCDs - two noname 10,4" - 800x600. And I'm thinking at building custom LCDs using electronics from ebay and "notebook" LCD panels 12,1" 1280x800pix

Graphic cards I used to do this control desk: nVidia GT 440 and ATI Radeon HD 4350.

 

I'm on the same page as you Adrian4u - I want to go with 1920x1200pix on two 24 inch monitors. The one 24 inch monitor that I have now is 1920x1200.

 

RuffRider - now in a fact I'm on renewing my computer - CPU is just changed (now Phenom II x6 1100T), next steps - got to sell motherboard and 8gigs of DDR2 RAM and buy motherboard with AM3/AM3+ and 8 gigs of DDR3 RAM

These additional pixels are usefull, but as you can see on previous page - I just made 4-LCD system

I think it will be better for me to buy another synth or expansion cards for my Triton Rack than loose money on selling 22" monitors and buying 24" monitors.