Hello All.
 
I am seriously considering switching my standard computer monitors over to touch screen monitors and I wanted to know how those of you who have already switched to touch screen feel about the decision you made.  I am a Sonar X3e user and I may upgrade to Sonar Platinum especially since Windows 10 will come out at the end of July.
 
 Question:

• Is moving around on the screen with your finger easier than using a mouse? 
• What about the mouse movement which requires clicking and dragging, how is that performed with Touch screen?
• Do you have accurate control over the Faders and pan pot movements and any other type of dials or buttons?
• Are you limited in any way to mixing in the console view and tracking in the track view?
• How about inserting FX, and selecting Virtual instruments?
• How about writing automation,
• Since I own a MCU I don't use shortcuts, so how about pressing buttons and enabling and disabling functions in Sonar. Will the touch screen be sensitive enough to detect a slight touch for lets say 1db decrease or increase or the movement of 1cm?

Micro Center in my area have a few 24 inch monitors on sale and depending on the reviews here, I may invest in them.
 
 
Thanks for any responses you provide in advance.

I've tested out touch screen once, at a time when Sonar was just one revision short of supporting it, on Windows 7, not the ideal touch screen platform. I was thinking the OS would translate touches to mouse events, and I was doing only one test - to mix a song using touch screen. But that didn't work well with Sonar at that time, so I was actually testing it with Reaper. The fader size is similar to Sonar, and Reaper works well responding to touches.
 
However, my conclusion that touch screen is not for me due to the fader being too small to make fine adjustment on my 21" Dell. It may be better on a 27" or larger screen, but that means you have to spread your arms out. If you mock up a touch screen practical for your use, you'll imagine how close the monitor needs to be placed in front of you.
 
I think Sonar's fader needs to have feature to be re sized in order to mix with touch screen. Not completely rule it out yet, I'm still thinking touch screen may work well for step sequencer drums programming. As I'm still on Windows 7, and I can't touch-hold to delete a step sequencer note, but folks here responded that this is possible, presumably on Windows 8 or greater.

Works well for me. I use it most when I am one of the performers being recorded. For hard mixing, I'm usually sitting back with the mouse.

I love it for live mixing and first drafting.

I will only buy touch screens. I will not add another non touch monitor. They get covered in fingerprints when I try to touch them anyway and I get frustrated.

Precision works fine for my needs. And it is multi touch so you can move several faders at once.

It works ok with a friend where you each have your own FX, but only one effect can be in focus at a time. If you both need to tweak at the same time, you could map to pro channel effect chains and that would work so you could both tweak separate effects at the same time.

Anyway, given that touch screens really aren't that expensive these days, I'd suggest it. You want ten point touch if you can afford it.

I've wondered if a stylus would make my touch screen usable. I sometimes use the touch to select and the plus and minus keys to make the changes.

Ya, I'd like to hear more opinions here as well. What screens do you guys use? Pros and cons?

I just got a new Toshiba (i7 CPU) with touch screen (yesterday).  I'll be installing Sonar Platinum on it and will report back how it works after I get it set up.  I plan to use this for my on-site recordings. 

(out of topic) For none touch screen, I found that the bigger 39" - 40" LCD TV are priced relatively close to 27" computer monitor.

MInes a laptop, full HD, 15.5", so it's too small really for controlled touchscreen use, hence the stylus idea

I have a 27" Dell 2714T touchscreen monitor and another 27" non-touch monitor. Touch is not ready for primetime in SONAR Platinum.
i initially set up my console view  to fill the touchscreen monitor which i angled on my desk, below my non tkuch monitor. But anything in console view that necessitates a right click is not enabled (you have to use a mouse). So you end up switching between touch and the mouse and realize early that you save all kinds of time by just using the mouse and forgetting about touch altogether.
i love touch outside of sonar, and have no doubt sonar will eventually catch up. But it is painfully slow as there have been no significant updates to touch since it was rolled out 4 years ago (5?). I see Studio One just enhanced their touch implementation, so i am going to give that a try. Can't be worse (more hobbled) than SONAR's implementation currently.
i love sonar but would not recommend investing in touch just for using it in sonar. 

I wonder if a control bar 'right click' icon would be enough to open up the options.