Re: home recording/macbook/fan noise/external monitors

[Martin Slawig <martin@blackhole-factory.de>]

hi everybody,

it's my first post here, but i'm following LD for a while. Very inspiring discussions going on and it seems that the list works as a good community.

We are using the matrox dualHead2Go for some of our performances and installations and it works really well. We use it with MacbookPro and MacMini. With the Macbook Pro it gives us three different!!! monitors: the one on the macbook and 2 externals which are one wide screen split to 2 monitors. We normally use the build in screen for control and the externals connected to 2 projectors. If you put them exactly side by side you get a wide screen 8:3. 

here is an example video: http://www.archive.org/details/blackholefactorySanokSonglines

and some photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackhole-factory/sets/72157606482288048/

Connected to a MacMini we get 2 different monitors we use for installations as wide screen or for performances with one as control screen, the other for projection.

There is also the mtrox triplehead2go which gives you a 12:3 screen split to 3 monitors. Also runs good on MacbookPro.

Hope this helps.

best

Martin

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Am 18.08.2009 um 02:10 schrieb john floridis:

"so the built-in jack for the external monitor is not sufficient for you?"

The problem is that if you use two external monitors apart from the screen on the macbook, the images on those two external monitors are mirrors of themselves.  This would be desirable for a classroom presentation, business meeting etc., but what I am looking for is the ability to have the two external monitors be a split screen which I can use to have, say, a video image up while I'm recording with Logic for a video project or film.  Doing that and being able to record quiet acoustic stuff is why I'm looking for two external monitors and having the computer in another room instead of just using the macbook screen and one external monitor.

I've ordered a splitter box from Matrox which supposedly should work according to their tech people.  I'll let you know.  If it doesn't, I might look at one of the new iMacs......

Thanks for all the posts,

John