Touch screen orientation
I'm often disappointed that some sample set producers don't provide portrait stop jamb screens for their virtual organs. I have two portrait oriented touch screen monitors (that is longest edge vertical) and for larger instruments I want to have a left and right stop jamb screen (one on each monitor), designed to be displayed in portrait mode, to use whilst playing the sample set.
Almost all sample sets come with landscape oriented displays (this is probably the most suitable for laptop computers and probably was the common format for monitors a few years ago) but even some new sample sets do not provide portrait oriented screens. Although the landscape screens can be used on a portrait oriented monitor, the layout is often too small to be easily viewed and a a large portion of the monitor is not used by the landscape screen.
I have bought sample sets without portrait oriented screens and I have bought sets on the promise that a portrait oriented screen would be forthcoming (but have been disappointed that they haven't been delivered).
I have been very pleased to see some third party developments of portrait oriented screens and where I have used them - they do enhance the sample set.
I can appreciate that some real instruments have a stop layout which is more suited to a landscape layout (thinking of some historic instruments).
There was a discussion around screen sizes and formats a few years ago....
http://forum.hauptwerk.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7850&start=15&hilit=landscape+portrait
I wonder whether using portrait orient touch screen displays is "unusual". I'd been very interested to hear what other users prefer.
Iain
I'm often disappointed that some sample set producers don't provide portrait stop jamb screens for their virtual organs. I have two portrait oriented touch screen monitors (that is longest edge vertical) and for larger instruments I want to have a left and right stop jamb screen (one on each monitor), designed to be displayed in portrait mode, to use whilst playing the sample set.
Almost all sample sets come with landscape oriented displays (this is probably the most suitable for laptop computers and probably was the common format for monitors a few years ago) but even some new sample sets do not provide portrait oriented screens. Although the landscape screens can be used on a portrait oriented monitor, the layout is often too small to be easily viewed and a a large portion of the monitor is not used by the landscape screen.
I have bought sample sets without portrait oriented screens and I have bought sets on the promise that a portrait oriented screen would be forthcoming (but have been disappointed that they haven't been delivered).
I have been very pleased to see some third party developments of portrait oriented screens and where I have used them - they do enhance the sample set.
I can appreciate that some real instruments have a stop layout which is more suited to a landscape layout (thinking of some historic instruments).
There was a discussion around screen sizes and formats a few years ago....
http://forum.hauptwerk.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7850&start=15&hilit=landscape+portrait
I wonder whether using portrait orient touch screen displays is "unusual". I'd been very interested to hear what other users prefer.
Iain