Instead of hijacking a thread about a different topic which has de-evolved in accordance with Godwin's Law, I'm starting a new thread.
 

John
Not to add fuel to the fire but touch can use right click. To right click using touch you tap with two fingers. I use touch a lot but only on my tablet. It also makes sense to have touch with a small light weight tablet. Not so much with vertical monitors just out of reach. 

 
What works for me with touch and SONAR is two monitors. The touch one is at about a 20 degree angle off my physical desktop, within easy reach - not unlike how a physical mixer would be angled. The non-touch one is positioned like a standard, vertical monitor. The touch display is more for "doing things," the standard monitor for "displaying things." The mouse and QWERTY keyboard are wireless. With this setup, I'm often using two hands - e.g., one hand on the touch monitor for "big" gestures, and one on the mouse for fine-tuning. This alone speeds up workflow compared to doing everything with the mouse.
 
I'm still refining the setup, but the above is an improvement over the pre-touch workflow. The reason why I started this thread is to emphasize that at least for me, it makes more sense to think of a touch screen as a control surface instead of a monitor, and to encourage anyone who uses touch to share ideas on how they use it most efficiently.

That sounds like a good setup Craig. With me I have a Mackie Control in the position of your touch monitor. I'm sure you have more control but I do like the MC.
 
I do believe touch is an important development.  

Andertonit makes more sense to think of a touch screen as a control surface instead of a monitor

i think this is the key thing here

Just like I used to have my set up.  Now I just put everything on the touch screen sloped like a mixer in front of me since analog hardware occupies the old space where I had my "display" monitor.

OK, this interests me greatly. What screen size and # pixels are any of you using? What touch technology do you favor?

Also, some of the touch screens have no USB port. How does the PC know when you've touch the screen?

Now that Apple has developed a pressure sensitive touch screen, I think the touch market will expand a lot. Right now the tech is only on phones, but the combination of touch gestures with pressure sensitivity opens up a world of options for musicians.

isn't it quite exhausting though, holding your arm up to the screen every few seconds to change parameters ?
I have a control surface but it lays flat. im only guessing here so my opinion is half baked but ive always been drawn away from touch for that very reason, having your arm suspended in mid air verse laying down/resting on a desk is a big difference.

Hi,
I checked a small touch monitor, because my goal is to reduce the needed space as much as possible. A controller is way to big or much to limitating. Just one fader is not helpful, but even 8 ones are no fun, if you want to leveling channels 2 and 12 at the same time...
I use a small touch monitor (15 inch). That is enough for the Mixer of sonar. It is not the main display, just for the mixer. From my experience, the display has to be anti-glare, otherwise it is apita.
My question is: What kind of display hold are you using? I had the problem that my one is wobbling at lower degrees...

Anderton
The reason why I started this thread is to emphasize that at least for me, it makes more sense to think of a touch screen as a control surface instead of a monitor, and to encourage anyone who uses touch to share ideas on how they use it most efficiently.

This, absolutely.

My setup is two non-touch ordinary screens set up vertically at normal viewing distance, plus an ipad set up close to me and lying nearly flat that acts as a control surface, and I use a touchpad rather than a mouse. Were I to add a full touchscreen it would go where I'd have put an analogue mixer.

Digital consoles that are touch-screen based mostly put the screens where an older console would have had real knobs, buttons and faders. Any other arrangement is a recipe for aching arms and shoulders. A big vertical touchscreen might look hi-tech in sci-fi films but in the real world it would be horrible to use for any length of time.