Working With A Deep Display

[fastlanephil]

I recently moved up to an intel iMac 2.4 20" and thought about spanning to a HP 20.1" 1680x1050 that pivots to replace my Acer 17". This would be mostly for working with more viewable tracks at one time in the graphic editor.

My question is if the graphic editor will stretch out close to 1680. I know it has a 16 track limit.

Does this make sense?


Phil

[Jerm]

I don't think the number of horizontal pixels in the Graphic Editor window is liimited to anything less than about 65535 pixels. Of course I have not tried although my IMac 24 inch fully displays 1920 pixels.

[fastlanephil]

Thanks for the specs Jerm. I wish I had the 24" iMac.

I tried to order a 2.8 gHZ 24" iMac but there is a constraint in the supply and they are only available through the Apple Store until after the first of the year. So with the additional SST, which is high in my area and no holiday discounts, I thought was a little over budget right now.

The current wide display standard is nice but lacks horizontal depth.

A nice new feature, if it's even possible, would be a master scroll in the graphic editor so you could easily access all your tracks even if they aren't all viewable at the same time.


Phil

[Jerm]

I bought the IMac from the refurbished part of the Apple store. Quite a reasonable price and basically brand new.

I am not sure what you mean about the 'master scroll', perhaps you could exound a bit?

[fastlanephil]

I saw the 2.4 24" refurb at Apple but decided on a 20" for now. I usually order from PowerMax(Portland, OR) because they are only a day or two away on ground shipping.

Anyway, the 24" will be junk when the 30" comes out. And it will!

What I meant by a master scroll is the ability to scroll all the individual scrollable tracks as one scrollable window like a window inside a window on a web page. Now you can change the instruments for a track but that may also require you resizing the window to see all the midi notes. The master scroll would allow you to size your track windows as needed and move them in and out of view as needed if your display can't show them all at once or you want some of the screen for another use.

I hope that makes sense.

Well, I picked up the HP and it does work but I need a mini-DVI to DVI adaptor for the iMac instead of the VGA adapter that I got for the Acer for hopefully a little finer display.

I think it's going to come in handy when mixing also.



Phil