Hey djbruuen

Going software also crossed my mind at one point, But I was brought up with hardware synths, and it's that I would miss it. It's a matter of preferance thease days, since the software sounds good thease days. You just need to know what to use in order for the soft synths to sound better. The best thing to do is to just run a vst thrue a stereo tube preamp. That alone makes a huge diefferance, giving the software sound the extra edge, and bottom some of them lack. That's why hosts such as cubase sx3 are good for this stuff, since you can route all vst's thrue the hardware preamp without a mixer, just using inputs of your soundcard, (that if you have at list a spare set of 1 stereo in/out). Have you ever heard of the spl Charisma 2, that thing makes the vsti synths sound so good you wouldn't tell a diefferance if it was hardware or a software synth if you run it thrue that. I heard that thing in action at this guys place, and was blown avay. I am seriously thinking of integrating that into my studio, and running all my soft synths and hardware thrue that, when I save some money for it
I use to have a focusrite twin track pro, and eaven thrue that the sound of the vsti's become more alive, and closer to hardware. Like I said it's one way to make a vsti sound better, and a lot of producers are doing it. It's something you learn once you're in this music thing for a while.

Anyway's here is a link to the SPL tube unit. Check it out if you want. LINK

just go for dual 30's that oughta do ya for awhile

Actually those pose an issue. They each need a very chunky graphics card to drive them sucking bandwidth out of the bus and CPU to drive them. This can choke audio cards and disk I/O.. Age old problem.

I have a question. How do you get 3 or even 4 lcd monitors running at the same time? Some super special graphic card? Whats the name of these graphic cards that can hold up to more than 2 monitors?

I'd recomend using two small monitors (or large if you got the money) instead of 1. Well, it actually depends on what you're doing on your computer, if you're only making music, it doesn't matter I guess. But if you play games it does. So you can play on the other monitor while doing other stuff at the other one. If you had one single monitor you wouldn't be able to do that. It really depends on what you do on your computer really.

I've got dual 19" CRTs and I cannot imagine how I ever produced before using a single monitor. Running each in 1600x1200, I can have tons of instruments, the mixer, plugins, whatever on the left hand screen, all while I see the full sequencer and can work on my project in the right hand screen. Even at this resolution with 2 monitors, I could STILL use more space. I think dual 16x9 20-24 LCD's would be the way to go but I just don't have that kind of money right now. Someday...

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And for all the Reason users out there with two wide lcd's, rotate the other lcd so you get hi screen instead of wide. There are options to rotate the screen for most of the graphic cards these days. But if you do this, you'll have much more rack space!

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Originally posted by Klangzentrum i have got just one 19"LCD, which is enough for me, using FL...you guys are just too lazy to switch windows!

+1

I've never felt the need to have another monitor, and I don't see any foreseeable slowdown in output caused by having to occassionally *gasp* open and close the mixer window or synths.

To each their own though.

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Originally posted by djbruuen djdirty, wow!!! i'm very envious of your setup, that looks very closely to my ideal space! btw. do you notice a big difference since placing the foam pads? (i'm assuming auralex?)

I forgot to answer this question, regarding the foam on the walls. It's not Auralex. The reason I didn't bother with Auralex is that they are way way overpriced. The Foam for my room would cost around $650+ cdn + tax on top of that if it was auralex. And why bother, it's foam, cost them like 25 bucks or less to make and they sell it for $800 a package. It for sure made them really rich.. I got auralex mopads , which i got for free, when i purchesed my virus c. I personally will not buy auralex, since it's way overpriced. I bought my foam for a lot less. In fact I have a receipt here handy, came to $220 cdn with taxes, duty tax, and delivery from US. Came in 2 weeks after ordering.

here is a link for the foam..

FOAM CHEAPER

I don't have anything against auralex, but i got better things to do with my hard earned cash, than spending 800 bucks on something that's 25 to make.

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thanks for the tip...i went with auralex mopads...yeh, definately wasted my money for what they are worth...but i'm not to regretful, because i like them a lot and i prolly woulda wasted it on something stupid anyways...however, to foam the whole room, definately a good idea going for the non-brand name, auralex has a reputation, and they know it, so they can jack the price and get away with it.

I notice Dell has a sale on now and they have a 17" LCD at a good price today. This is their standard grade monitor (they have a premium line too called UltraSharp that has better color & USB). C$179. Analog only (VGA). These run the same resolution as a 19" - 1280x1024.

So I could get 2 of these babies fairly cheap to get effectively 2560 x 1024, hmmm I dunno if I should go for it or not. Only 17" & analog connection but I think they would be OK.

I have an ATI video card that can drive 2 VGAs, or a DVI and/or a VGA. I've read that the analog LCD connection is very near the same quality as DVI (digital).

Not yet into music production but I do some music video stuff with Sony Vegas and that can be stretched across the screen or I can put a preview window on one monitor.

Opinions?

Dell E176FP
http://accessories.dell.com/sna/pro...ategory_id=4009

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Originally posted by tvmann I notice Dell has a sale on now and they have a 17" LCD at a good price today. This is their standard grade monitor (they have a premium line too called UltraSharp that has better color & USB). C$179. Analog only (VGA). These run the same resolution as a 19" - 1280x1024. So I could get 2 of these babies fairly cheap to get effectively 2560 x 1024, hmmm I dunno if I should go for it or not. Only 17" & analog connection but I think they would be OK. I have an ATI video card that can drive 2 VGAs, or a DVI and/or a VGA. I've read that the analog LCD connection is very near the same quality as DVI (digital). Not yet into music production but I do some music video stuff with Sony Vegas and that can be stretched across the screen or I can put a preview window on one monitor. Opinions? Dell E176FP http://accessories.dell.com/sna/pro...ategory_id=4009

Personally, I would spend the extra $20 and go with this one(8 ms response time):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16824001072

Dell doesn't list the response time in the spec, which I believe is 16 ms at least in those models. Dell always "has a sale" on monitors, giving them to you at the price they need to have to compete with other LCD manufacturers. Anybody who would actually spend $300 on that monitor would be a fool, and $180 isn't really a good deal for a 17 inch 16ms response time LCD. You can always try to call them and get it at a lower price though if you really want that one.

Im about to buy one of those samsungs come may when I buy a new rig

I can't affors 2 sadly, not that I could even get linux to use dual head anyway. One could always go to the goodwill, you can get CRT's for like 8 bucks there but they are quite shitty, occasionally a god one will be in there from somebody who donated if without realizing how much its worth, but most of them are like 5 year old gateways.

Horay for the thrift store machine!
Gawd I am so friggin bored, im sitting here posting on TA waiting for the damn computer to render some noise, I made this wierd algorighmic thing in csound, the laptop can't handle it, its been rendering for like 30 minutes and its only 1:30 worth of audio, geez. At least I'm finally making something though.