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Steve and Harv and the other real computer nerds will love this.
My computer in the room downstairs has two 27" monitors. I do some initial composing and track creation down here, then send it upstairs for sweetening. I find myself with many screens I want open at once and all the minimizing makes me nuts. So a friend was inadvertently sent a 3 monitor stand from Amazon. Amazon does not want it back. She is sending it to me. That gave me a reason to order another 27" HP that matches one I have now. When that stand arrives I will set the 3 of them up in a triangle. Well, I have to have a way to drive all 3, so I bought an Nvidia 710 2gb video card with 4 HDMI outs. Popped it into the computer today and said a quick prayer to a deity in whom I don't believe that it would go smoothly. Soon after I started considering believing if it would help things go better for me.
Many computers have a BIOS that when you put in a video card it shuts off the onboard video. This Dell does not. Neither monitor powered up. I had to change the inputs from VGA to HDMI. Check. Another reboot. FINALLY they came up. But they came up as monitor 1 and 3. I did not put the cables in adjacent ports so my fat fingers could manipulate them easier. Windows did not like that. I changed to adjacent ports and finally got them assigned as #1 and #2. Then I started my TV app on my browser. No sound. I had to go into Nvidia's control panel and turn off the audio input because it was intercepting it and no sound was getting to my Focusrite, which is my sound card on this PC. I did that and restarted. Nothing changed. Still no sound from the Focusrite.
As I got close to throwing the Focusrite through the window in this room, I decided to test with a mic. Oddly, the mic and music keyboard produced sound. Okay. Another clue. Disabled and enabled the interface. Same situation. Reinstalled the driver. Same thing. Made sure Windows was still seeing the Focusrite as the default input and output sound device. They were correct.
THEN I saw it. The Focusrite, like most interfaces I guess, has a mix knob for input and playback. The mic and keyboard plugged into the inputs, of course, are input. The sounds from the computer, of course, are playback. The problem was that as I moved all the stuff around to deal with changing the cables on the monitors that knob got turned all the way to the left, to the input side.
Once again I end up my day with a palm print on my forehead from the "DUH" moment!
3rd monitor gets here Wednesday. The monitor stand should be here by the weekend. I love new toys!!!!
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
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That gave me a reason to order another 27" HP that matches one I have now. When that stand arrives I will set the 3 of them up in a triangle. A triangle? Still trying to get my head round that one. With the screens facing inwards and a swivel chair at the centre? Or maybe with the screens facing outwards and rollerblades to skate around the cluster? You do have some rollerblades I assume. ROG.
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2 side by side and one centered above them. The stand allows up and down and 180 degree swivel as well as the middle one telescoping up and down. So Real Band on the top screen, effects, mixer, etc all open at the same time on other screens.
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
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Eddie, a couple of years ago I set up a three monitor system for my nephew. He is into auto racing big time and the front monitor was his windshield and the other two his side mirrors. I remember it was a PITA getting everything working correctly. I feel your pain.
Me, it's not about how many times you fail, it's about how many times you get back up.
Cop, that's not how field sobriety tests work.
64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware
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From what I can see, and I say this as I know on my wooden desktop, the card is all set up and I just need to plug the cables in and make sure I turn off the audio in the monitor. The new video card, for some reason, needed FOUR restarts before it became system friendly. Right now everything is fine. Adding #3 should (SHOULD) not prove difficult. Especially because all 3 are in front of me. Meaning I can punch them all at once if it fails!
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
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You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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Desk space!! Though the video card DOES have one more port....
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
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Nice story. I have a 24" monitor with 2 square 19" ones on the sides of that. May get a TV screen to put above the 3.
 Steve BIAB/RB 2022, Pro Tools 2020, Korg N5, JBL LSR 4328 Powered Monitors, AKG/Shure Mics.
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