Help with graphics tablet control of Sonar

Hi all-
 
Getting back into using Sonar after jumping ship when X1 dropped. It seems Platinum addresses the issues that I didn't like in X1, and I'm enjoying the change/ stability from having spent too much time with Pro tools lately.
 
My question: is it possible to use a graphics tablet and not have controls jump like mad? This was an issue in 8, 8.5, and in Platinum.
 
It's not on every screen widget that it happens: only Sonar's continuous mixer controls (volumes, pans, trims etc) and newer plugins have this issue. Older plugs like the sonitus suite, lexicon reverbs, even the LP64 series don't have the issue, nor do UAD plugins.
 
I've seen this issue on 3 or 4 systems, with three different graphics tablets (2 monoprice, one wacom), so I suspect it's inherent to Sonar. Other hosts don't have this issue. I'm hoping there's just a setting I'm missing. Due to carpal tunnel issues, this is right on the cusp of being a deal breaker; I'm hoping it can be rectified.
 
I did see the bulletin about keeping your screen resolution to 100% as this can cause some control jumpiness when set to magnified settings. This doesn't appear to be the issue.
 
Thanks,
 
Ron

Nope, sorry.

Did your digitizer tablet work better in Pro Tools?

Does your digitizer use a control surface driver in Sonar or is it just a general mouse substitute that works windows wide. And if the latter, how are other apps?

Blogospherianman
I use an addesso tablet for drawing target notes in antares auto tune graphical mode, also for drawing note lines like slow scoops etc. tried it in sonar and the widgets acted crazy so i don't use it for that anymore. It's not you man! Haven't tried since win 10. My waves dials were squirly with even a mouse with win 7, but win 10 fixed that. I'll check my widgets when i get home.

Thanks for the confirmation, I was going a little nutty with this one!
 
The mention of the OS version might be key here; I've noticed this behavior on Win XP and 7, but haven't tried any higher versions yet (I remain pretty gun shy about 10...this machine will need to run PT for a while, and if you look at that program funny, it'll make your life hell stability-wise).

xiwix
I use a wacom tablet as a mouse supplement and I have noticed some inconsistency inside Sonar - mostly right click related issues but nothing I can't work around.
 
I got this good bit of advice from another sonar user:  Also, this was new to me, but my tablet is behaving WAY better in Sonar since going into the Win10 pen and touch control panel (not Wacom's panel) and disabling the "press and hold" and "flicks" features.  
 
Helped a lot with the knobs jumping around thing.

Thanks, I'll see if there's an analog to these features in Win 7 and report back.

I guess it was time for the AHA! moment.
 
The issue appears to be the difference between absolute and relative coordinate settings in my tablet driver. 
If I have the driver set to "absolute", the digitizer behaves like pen-on-paper: fixed screen locations correspond to fixed points on the physical tablet. This is the intuitive setting, but it causes the offending widgets to jump like mad.
 
If I set to "relative", the tablet behaves more like a mouse, ie: the pointing behavior picks up from where you left off. It's a really weird setting to enable, but it does make the widgets usable. Not as graceful or intuitive as the 'absolute' setting, but probably something that can be learned to be dealt with.  I'll have to play around with this for a while to see if it'll be an acceptable work-around. 
 
Thanks for all the help, folks!