January 31st, 2008
Homer update
I finished Act 1 of HOMER IN CYBERSPACE this morning. Tomorrow I’ll be fleeing to Palm Spring for four intense days of composing. I’ll be up at 5, compose till 11:30, have lunch, work all afternoon, see a movie and have dinner, go back compose a little more then go to bed, and start the whole thing over again for three more days. I’m hoping to sketch out the music for Act 2, which is about 10 songs/numbers.
In the picture above you’ll see I’m slumming it with only one 30 inch monitor and my laptop. This weekend I’ll be taking both monitors and my tower. Such are my tools these days!
[Photo of RB writing music at The Lodge in Palm Springs by Larry Luchtel]
January 31st, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Are you suggesting that you usually use two 30″ displays? Good lord! Is one displaying your notation software, and the other DP or Logic? I have a single 30″ (slumming full time
, and have wondered if it would be worth having a second display just for Kontakt, but it would make my desk look… ugly. I can imagine getting a second 30″ just for balance…
Happy composing!
February 1st, 2008 at 6:55 am
I want an entire wall as my screen someday, and having 2 screens is on the way. Go for it.
When I’m using Logic, I have the arrange window taking over the entire right monitor. The hyper-editor screeen and the mixer are both stretched horizontally across the left screen. My synthesizer modules hover above those two windows. When I use Sibelius, I put it in panorama mode and stretch it across both screens so I have a big chunk of music written by the time I go from the left to the right. I’m very happy that Sibelius has put this option back in. It originally appeared in Finale and was called “Igor’s view” as Igor Stravinsky always fantasized about having music paper that scrolled infinitely from the left to the right.
For composers, hell ,for anyone who spends a lot of time on the computer using many applications, 2 big screen monitors makes life soooo much better.