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I feel you...well at least kinda. What do you mean "sensibly" sized MIDI controller. That is what I am using the Roland for. My parents bought me that for like my 13th Birthday. (I am 26 now) and it was my first "real" keyboard...meaning no internal speakers...

I was very glad to finally be able to have some use for it. If I was to buy another midi controller, then I'd have no use at all for the Roland. It also, made my parents pretty happy when I told them that I'd finally incorporated it back into my setup.

The reason the speakers are turned side ways was do to some information I read (plus every sings picture of studio's that I seem to see...(at least I think)) has them sideways. The information I have read (up to about 5 minutes ago) has been saying to lay them horizontally. Something about the high sounds being on the outer most side of the sweet spot and the mid to low frequencies being on the inside.

May I ask why you would suggest them be vertical (other than the space issue).

My Tascam 1082 should be here in the mail on Thursday. Once that gets here I will need to figure out a way to get everything I have midi'd up together. I will have the Roland JW50, the Korg Triton, and the Roland VS880. I need a way to push play on one thing (the tascam) and everything start playing all at once. And also, be able to control Reason (the sounds, etc.) from both the Triton and the Roland. (I use the Triton when I am playing piano intensive parts of my music cause of the weighted keys.

With all that said...please make any further recommendations that you may have....about the monitor and everything else.

Thanks for your help today.
 
The reason I say stand them upright rather than sideways is that they're so close together the comparative difference in size between the soundstage created by the bass/mid drivers and the soundstage created by the tweeters is gonna do some funny things to the soundstage. Stand them upright and prop the front up a little so they aim up by a few degrees only (nothing too extreme).

As far as connecting everything goes - the Tascam has two MIDI outputs, but you could just run MIDI thru from the Korg Triton into whichever Roland is left without a MIDI connection and just run the two on different MIDI channels.

I assume you're running Logic? If so, just ReWire Logic and Reason together. Reason supports multiple MIDI inputs (the last option in Reason's preferences will help you set this up). If you set up your MIDI inputs etc... from the drop down lists, and then go back to the hardware device right at the top of your Reason project, you can choose which BUSes go to which instruments.

You can easily assign the keys on the Tascam to functions in Reason, which will in turn control Logic if the two are tied together.
 
Killyp said:
The reason I say stand them upright rather than sideways is that they're so close together the comparative difference in size between the soundstage created by the bass/mid drivers and the soundstage created by the tweeters is gonna do some funny things to the soundstage. Stand them upright and prop the front up a little so they aim up by a few degrees only (nothing too extreme).

As far as connecting everything goes - the Tascam has two MIDI outputs, but you could just run MIDI thru from the Korg Triton into whichever Roland is left without a MIDI connection and just run the two on different MIDI channels.

I assume you're running Logic? If so, just ReWire Logic and Reason together. Reason supports multiple MIDI inputs (the last option in Reason's preferences will help you set this up). If you set up your MIDI inputs etc... from the drop down lists, and then go back to the hardware device right at the top of your Reason project, you can choose which BUSes go to which instruments.

You can easily assign the keys on the Tascam to functions in Reason, which will in turn control Logic if the two are tied together.
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cool (i think), now that we have that out of the way, what about the monitor?
 
I'd get some other stuff first, which will help more, such as room treatement. Some bass traps etc... will really help with your mixes/being able to hear what's going on.

Either that, or get a desktop Mac. I don't like using my laptop for recording, desktops are much nicer.
 
Killyp said:
I'd get some other stuff first, which will help more, such as room treatement. Some bass traps etc... will really help with your mixes/being able to hear what's going on.

Either that, or get a desktop Mac. I don't like using my laptop for recording, desktops are much nicer.
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dang dude you done gone a complete nother direction!!! LOL... you need to view my other recent thread about what, if any, other equipment I need. here is a link check it out.https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/457321/


anyway, to respond to your post...there is NO WAY I AM TREATING A ROOM AND I LIVE IN AN APARTMENT. bass traps??? have no idea. And the statement about desktop macs vs laptops is complete opinion. There is no way a desktop mac is any where in my budget. I am just about at the end of the building of my home studio (which you will see in the other thread).

I have just really been considering getting a new display cause of what I go through during long periods of working through the mac.

I want to get back on the subject of the resolution and how it is going to affect me negatively if I buy a TV.
 
by the way, I hooked up my mac book pro to my 61 inch JVC HD-ILA series TV and it looks pretty good if I must say. Only BIG problem is that I can't see the toolbar that is at the top of the screen when you open a program (file, edit, tools, etc...) and I also can not see the very bottom of my desktop. I am running Widows in parallel mode and my start button and windows toolbar is down there....any idea how to get around that?

I am taking my laptop to BestBuy tonight and going to hook up my laptop to one of the 32 inchers...and see how it comes out on there.

keep sending the comments though. You are really giving me alot of things to think about.
 
Fair enough. Basically:

If you buy an LCD TV, you will get a far lower screen resolution than if you buy an LCD computer monitor for the same money.
 
That sucks. If you manage to get a working one though it should work great...
 
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