4K Cubase

[Gerhard Westphalen]

So the price of 4K seems to be coming down. Dell has a 28" 4K monitor for $700. I downloaded a 4K desktop screen shot with normal scaling to see how small things would look with 4K. My monitor is 27" so its not too far off from the Dell. When I full screened the image everything was tiny. I'm wondering if you guys think that using Cubase (or other DAWs) would work on this 28" monitor or if everything would be too tiny to see. I image that "aiming" the mouse would be difficult.

[JeffJeff]

With regards to finding the mouse pointer, at least on Windows, you have various features available to you in the 'Mouse' Control Panel (Mouse control panel -> 'Pointer Options' tab):

• 'Display pointer trails'
• 'Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key'
• Enhance pointer precision
• Adjust the speed at which it moves (slower is easier to be accurate with, but it'll take longer to get the pointer to where you want it)
• Automatically move the pointer to the default button in a dialogue box (this one drives me mad!)

Also, in the 'Pointers' tab you can select different styles and sizes of mouse pointers.

[Gerhard Westphalen]

With regards to finding the mouse pointer, at least on Windows, you have various features available to you in the 'Mouse' Control Panel (Mouse control panel -> 'Pointer Options' tab):

• 'Display pointer trails'
• 'Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key'
• Enhance pointer precision
• Adjust the speed at which it moves (slower is easier to be accurate with, but it'll take longer to get the pointer to where you want it)
• Automatically move the pointer to the default button in a dialogue box (this one drives me mad!)

Also, in the 'Pointers' tab you can select different styles and sizes of mouse pointers.

I don't think the problem would be finding the mouse I think it would be actually getting it over buttons like the little buttons in the Cubase mixer. You could slow it down but then it would take ages to get your mouse across the screen, especially if you had multiple monitors.

[JeffJeff]

You could slow it down but then it would take ages to get your mouse across the screen, especially if you had multiple monitors.

Agreed (and I did acknowledge that exact issue). Not sure what the answer is...especially as I run Cubase on my laptop so I'm nowhere close to the kind of display you're talking about!

[G-Doubleyou]

Do you have the main ingredient? A video card that can output 4K!

[Scramble]

If you're worrying about surviving in LA soon then forget about spending lots of money on expensive graphics systems that you don't really need. Save your pennies.

[Gerhard Westphalen]

I believe most displayports and HDMI 1.4 can output 4K so I don't think it would be an issue

[Gerhard Westphalen]

If you're worrying about surviving in LA soon then forget about spending lots of money on expensive graphics systems that you don't really need. Save your pennies.

I'm not going to spend $700 on a monitor! I'm just saying that the price has come down considerably and will hopefully continue to drop. Just seeing if you guys think it would be usable in a studio. I believe this is similar to when SSDs were starting to drop in price. Nowadays everybody's advice is get SSDs if you can afford them and so hopefully it will be like that with 4K not too far into the future.

[Pete Kaine]

We've played around with the 28" screens, honestly I think you'd want real estate for a 4K display. You can resize icons and text within windows to make it more usable, but the first time you load up a plug in that doesn't support that fully, you'll be struggling. Still, give it a few years and you'll be seeing it break the mainstream more and the prices tumble, the are already some 48"+ TV screens under a grand that seem a bit more suitable for this sort of work.