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If you can clarify your use cases and what advantage ultrawide will bring, be good. Also what are your main tasks and software?
I also don't like the curve of any non ultra-wide monitors, esp the Samsung Odyssey's.
4K at 32" is a tough ask in that budget if you want a good image.
IMHO panel quality is more important than anything else as you spend so much time in front of it.
Personally I'd look at a 1440p 27" for that sort of money.
I tend to use my 32" at 1440p unless I am working on 4k footage- text is easier to read.
Do you actually need 4K?
You have a mix of IPS and VA panels in that list.
I vastly prefer IPS to VA- better viewing angles.
The BenQ VA panel is a good example of a decent budget monitor that covers a lot of bases but it will not be great at an angle.
Personally I would avoid it.
I would also avoid Dell S series.
The P or U series are much better, but more money.
The LG 32UN650P is a much better monitor than the other flat monitors you listed.
I would get that out of the ones you have put.
You will get a much better panel if you look at 1440p 27" though.
LG UltraGear 27GN88A is around £400, you go down from 32" to 27" and down from UHD to QHF but what you get a is a far superior panel that is much faster.
Another £100 gets you a ASUS ROG Strix XG27AQ which kicks the ass of all the monitors in your list, although it has a gamer focus.
If you absolutely have to have a 32" 4K panel then there are three I would look at.
The best value is Gigabyte M32U.
It is £700 though.
The other two cost more, which are the MSI Optix MPG321UR QD and Corsair Xeneon 32UHD144 but they are both around £900.
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Pro Tools has CMD= keyboard shortcut to switch between Edit and Mix
Logic is CMD1/CMD2 to bring up Main and Mix- or using screen sets.
I sometimes use an iPad as a second (or third) screen- this is handy for metering plugins.
I wouldn't use it for a mix window.
'You will barely see a media music professional using single screen'.
That is mostly a Youtube influencer thing.
I am in a lot of studios and one display is still the norm, esp if using a console where the display is usually at right angles to the console/mix position.
The reason for this is down to room acoustics, esp when forward of the studio monitors.
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Now consider the physical width. You might as well get a 4k 32" monitor, which will have the same width as the ultra wide but far more vertical screen real estate. With the ultra wide I find I have to either switch between different DAW modes or throw the mixer to another screen off to the side when not in use. With a 32" I can have two modes showing on the same screen stacked. I still throw plugins off to side screens.
(yes, I know I need to sort my blind out...yeesh, phone cameras are not kind these days)
So...four monitors might seem like overkill, but it's actually very practical. At any given point:
- Top: 15.6" 1080p, emails only
- Left: 22" 1920x1200, videos/messaging/terminal
- Right: 22" 1920x1200, browser preview or reference material when working, miscellaneous when not
- Centre: 27" 1440p, code/main browser/gaming
Two monitors feels far too claustrophobic, three is fine but I found myself constantly switching to my email window and then hunting for the one that should be there once I'm done...so I got the top one.
I've exhausted the outputs on my GPU now, but I think I could probably use the integrated GPU to get more going if I needed to. I can't see what I'd use a fifth for.
Anyway, my advice would be to figure out the most you'd need to be able to see at any one time with no window switching, and design your setup around that.
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