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Re:X2 with multiple monitors 2012/10/21 11:37:15 (permalink)
Very possibly - the other card was an older one so may not have supported crossfire. It was also low profile although I doubt that had any relevance.

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Re:X2 with multiple monitors 2012/10/21 12:01:14 (permalink)
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I use 3 monitors and and really like it.  One monitor is an old TV that only gets Picture played back on it.  I think i'm going to need to replace it in the near future because it is not hi def and I can't take total advantage or a 3 monitor system,  but for now the system works.  

My  main monitor is track view and the 2nd bounces back and forth between Staff View and Console View....which brings to mind Screensets.  The OP should know Screensets make X1/X2 really a lot of fun and navigating monitors very efficient.

BUT BE forewarned...jumping from Sonar 8 to Sonar X is not too easy.  There will be growing pains and a somewhat steep re-learning curve.  But Prochannel and Screensets should make it worth it for you in the long run.  I really have benefited from both.

....now if only Staff view could step up a notch I would be in heaven.       

Fortunately, I was pretty crap with Sonar 8. I see that as giving me an advantage moving to X2!!

I've thought about the HDTV route. How close can you get before you get googly-eyed?


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Re:X2 with multiple monitors 2012/10/21 12:42:59 (permalink)
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Anyway - have you found any way of extending the desktop across two of them and having a cloned desktop on the other except for the mirroring technique used by most of the graphic manager utilities?
 
That works but it displays the stretched monitors at their combined resolution which obviously doesn't work very well on a single monitor.

Unfortunately nope.. the desktop is always on one monitor. I guess i'm used to having just one monitor as desktop.

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Re:X2 with multiple monitors 2012/10/21 19:14:04 (permalink)
Couldn't imagine working without them.

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Re:X2 with multiple monitors 2012/10/21 19:32:05 (permalink)
Hi dont mean to show off but main display 2 x 46" HDMI.
I got a 40" as well on the side that I use for CCTV into the control room

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Re:X2 with multiple monitors 2012/10/22 17:13:33 (permalink)
On a related note - doesn't the interface in X1 and X2 take more space than in previous versions, leaving less for your content?
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Re:X2 with multiple monitors 2012/10/22 17:31:46 (permalink)
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On a related note - doesn't the interface in X1 and X2 take more space than in previous versions, leaving less for your content?
Perhaps but you also have more control on what is displayed. If you had Sonar 8.xx with all its tool bars than it took up a lot of screen space and you had no easy way to get them out of the way. With screen sets and keys like C and D for viewing the control bar or the multidock or I for the track inspector B for browser and so on you have a lot of control with X1/X2. 

You could have perhaps more tracks displayed in the older Sonar but the usefulness of that is doubtful in that each was too small to be of any practicable use.

Plus with X2 you have the ability to use the entire screen for the TV.

In the end its just a better way to do things.  


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Re:X2 with multiple monitors 2012/10/22 23:10:12 (permalink)
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Hi dont mean to show off but main display 2 x 46" HDMI.
I got a 40" as well on the side that I use for CCTV into the control room

do these need to be 1080 or will 760 be ok?


also, 120 Hz or 60 Hz make any difference?
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Re:X2 with multiple monitors 2012/10/23 00:19:17 (permalink)
Do you mean will they work?  Sure.

There is no requirement for 1080 or 120.  

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Re:X2 with multiple monitors 2012/10/23 10:34:05 (permalink)
I've been using 2 monitors since Sonar 4 or 5. Never had a problem. 

My plan at this point is to be running 4 by the end of the year. Seems crazy, but work flow improvements are worth it when I'm working on scoring videos. 

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