Touching the future

Clever subject header huh?
 
Last night I watched a video about sonar X2's touch screen features and windows 8.
To my mind it's still an expensive technology that's very much in it's infancy but it is very interesting none the less and prices are falling and will continue to do so. I had serious reservations about using touch screen on a desktop simply because of RSI and the aching arms and the general uncomfortableness (why isn't that a proper word ?) of it all.
 
I was reading the BFD3 feature request list on the BFD2 forum and thought, I wonder who would be the first to bring out a touch screen version of their drum VSTi. Lots of people use drum pads and with multi-angle monitors and the continual improvement of both the screens and software I can see drum pads going in the bin and people tapping out their grooves on their monitors a few years from now.
Remember from whom you heard if first. Maybe I should get my self down to the patent office
 
I found a really good and unbiased review from a fellow cynic like myself who seems to have been converted (as have I) to the potential of touch technology or "touchtech" as I like to call it.
Did I just make another new word ?
 
Cakewalk aren't the only ones to have seen the potential either, they're all at it
 
Here's them videos for you
 
Touch Screen & Music Production Part 1
 
Touch Screen & Music Production Part 2
 
 
Steve
 

Yes that did also cross my mind and there in could be a major problem as it would surely be a hardware requirement that the screen would need to be made velocity sensitive and if they could do that I guess that could cost a lot more than your average touch screen.
I don't use a drum pad but I think a lot of people use them more as a sketch pad to quickly tap out a pattern and then edit the velocities later so it could still have some use.
 
Discomfort did cross my mind but I felt uncomfortableness had a more plural and general feel to it. 
 
Steve

jb101
I use the iPad to remotely control Sonar, if I'm recording away from my DAW, somewhere else in the studio, using AC-7 Coe HD.

V-Control Pro looks even nicer. Costs a bit more though. But you get direct access to really everything on your DAW in what seems to me a far easier way.
 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/R5Vcgf3-jvs

hellogoodbye

jb101
I use the iPad to remotely control Sonar, if I'm recording away from my DAW, somewhere else in the studio, using AC-7 Coe HD.

V-Control Pro looks even nicer. Costs a bit more though. But you get direct access to really everything on your DAW in what seems to me a far easier way.
 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/R5Vcgf3-jvs

 
Looks fantastic but not velocity sensitive which was the point of my post.
Steve
 

I'm totally picturing my kid snapping sticks hard against the monitor... jamming away with the monitor flat... until...
 
CRACK
 
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I'll need a touch screen with tempered glass!
 
And we'll have to mic the monitor to get that natural sound of sticks on glass to mix in with the synth!

Velocity might be easier/better implemented using an accelerometer (like in many i-devices and fones) rather than by touch sensing.
 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff827744.aspx
 

Did anyone catch the Juce reference. Maybe Sonar will eventually port to Apple if they use that platform since using it made touch easier.

John
V Control is an app for an ipad where touch IS the program on the screen. With a touch screen the need or even the desirability for an app to control Sonar vanishes. 
 
My view is the hardware we use to input data (MIDI) and control Sonar wont be replaced by touch only enhanced by it. 

Well Done John

gswitz
I'm totally picturing my kid snapping sticks hard against the monitor... jamming away with the monitor flat... until...
 
CRACK
 
:-)
 
I'll need a touch screen with tempered glass!
 
And we'll have to mic the monitor to get that natural sound of sticks on glass to mix in with the synth!

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Some vst instruments' gui keyboards change velocity depending on whereabouts on the key you click, so maybe it'll be a combo touch/software thing? Also, isn't midi velocity just 0-127 range? My padkontrol is...

I'm not seeing (in my minds' eye) any benefit to doing the drum part on screen.  I think an MPD or a regular computer keyboard even would be so much cheaper and reliable to use.  I'm not sure sure at all about the level of noncomfortablicityness.
 
I've played with using my iPhone 4, using AC-7 Core HD using my iPhone for remote controlling of my DAW but it's a pain.. I've thought about grabbing an iPad to use for that but I could probably set up my Rocktron Midimate and have it work much more conveniently.  It's a very cool app though.