Last night I had a friend over and she was playing and singing and I was working the gear. It helps sooo much to let someone else work the gear. Like massage therapists trading massages, musicians taking turns recording each other produces interesting results.
 
Well, I didn't set up in advance at all. So I grabbed 4 inputs...
- direct from guitar
- two mics for the guitar
- 1 mic for vocals
 
And started recording.
 
She brought her own headphones (I love it when people do that!!) and I was adjusting the thru mix after she had started singing. Using touch, I could make all kinds of adjustments to the interface and within Sonar while she was playing without a single click. No keyboard stuff... nothing. I could do more in the DAW than I could on my compressor. I wanted to hit the GR meter button on my compressor, but it would make a loud sound so I didn't. :-) I did do TONS of stuff with the RME and the DAW to adjust what she was monitoring in the headphones. to zoom the tracks. To scroll around. Panning channels left and right. Fixing internal FX.
 
More than ever, I want a second touch screen.
 
Here's the question in this post
I will say that without using ctrl+D on a single monitor, showing and hiding the console view with touch only was hard. I ended up floating it and moving it to the side when I wanted to access the tracks and sliding it center when I wanted to use the console view.
 
I should probably say that showing the console view was easy but it was tricky to get back to track view.
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Ctrl-D? I just use D. 

John, the goal is to do it without touching the keyboard which makes noise.
 
You can bring up the console by touching the tab at the bottom. The problem is getting back.
 
The only way I could get back was floating it and moving it to the side.

OK I see. How about a silent keyboard? 

It's not a 'in-sonar' solution, but windows has an on-screen Keyboard. Not ideal, as it takes up screen real estate too, but could open up further short cut options too. You could float off screen in the corner to show the first quarter of the keyboard and so access 'd'.   

Scoot
It's not a 'in-sonar' solution, but windows has an on-screen Keyboard. Not ideal, as it takes up screen real estate too, but could open up further short cut options too. You could float off screen in the corner to show the first quarter of the keyboard and so access 'd'.   

Brilliant, Scoot.  I forgot that we are talking about Windows 8.   

John
OK I see. How about a silent keyboard? 

Definitely if the computer is in the same space as the mics.  I ran a call center for awhile.  We did a lot of monitoring of phone calls for training and quality control.  One of the first things we noticed was just how annoying the keyboard sound could be.  We bought silent keyboards and it made a huge difference.  You couldn't hear that at all on the recordings and the agents sounded a lot more relaxed and personable.
 
I don't recall what brand these keyboards were.  They were a lot more expensive than normal keyboards -- about $120 as I recall.

Another thought, would the Screensets tool from the control bar allow you to access this.

I was going to suggest screensets.

One for your trk view. Another for your console.

Scoot
It's not a 'in-sonar' solution, but windows has an on-screen Keyboard. Not ideal, as it takes up screen real estate too, but could open up further short cut options too. You could float off screen in the corner to show the first quarter of the keyboard and so access 'd'.   

I've had to remind some touch/mobile device users of this and I don't even have one myself. Usually just a touch to show and hide it.