Hi, guys,
     I am considering investing in a touch screen for my studio use. I don't need a 42 or 52 inch screen. I am looking at 23 or 32 inchers. My question would be is a 23 inch screen large enough to comfortably work with Sonar X2a? I know 32 is always better but my area is getting really crowded. Also, I have been reading that touch screen on Windows 7 is not very useable. It is just passable to work with.
     I would appreciate any info or help you guys could throw my way. For my setup see the signature below. Thanks!

SONAR's multi-touch stuff requires Windows 8 so you won't benefit from it on Windows 7.

Yep, multi-touch requires Win8.
Right now, Sonar X2 is the only DAW that supports multi-touch.
Multi-touch is great... but don't think of it as a replacement for mouse/keyboard.
Think of it as a nice addition/enhancement.  Great for zooming/navigation, transport, etc...
 
The 27" Planar and Acer units are pretty nice...

Thanks, guys! I am thinking about upgrading to Windows 8. Sorry I forgot to include that. Kinda scared of 8 right now. I heard there was just a new patch for 8. I'm wondering how that is working out.

Umm, actually, Windows 7 supported multi-touch, but Sonar did not do so until X2a.
 
http://windows.microsoft....roducts/features/touch
 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee336016.aspx
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/products/sonar/touch.aspx
 

Sidroe
Thanks, guys! I am thinking about upgrading to Windows 8. Sorry I forgot to include that. Kinda scared of 8 right now. I heard there was just a new patch for 8. I'm wondering how that is working out.

Don't have win 8 on my DAW, but I haven't seen anyone say it doesn't play nicely with Sonar. As an OS for a my regular pc it works just fine and is better in many ways IMHO. As far as I have seen, the patch is really to quieten those who can't live without their START button present in the corner all the time and some other little tweaks giving greater ability to personalise the UI rather than because it doesn't work in some way.

Goddard
Umm, actually, Windows 7 supported multi-touch, but Sonar did not do so until X2a.
 
http://windows.microsoft....roducts/features/touch
 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee336016.aspx
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/products/sonar/touch.aspx
 

Have you actually tried using multi-touch under Win7?
I have...
It doesn't work.   
ie: Try to grab/move four faders in the console view.
 

Multi touch may require windows eight, but single touch does not. The screens for single touch are much cheaper. For two to three hundred you can get a good twenty three inch screen. I don't usually use a bunch of fingers at once, FYI. There is a learning curve for using touch.

Jim Roseberry

Goddard
Umm, actually, Windows 7 supported multi-touch, but Sonar did not do so until X2a.
 
http://windows.microsoft....roducts/features/touch
 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee336016.aspx
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/products/sonar/touch.aspx
 

Have you actually tried using multi-touch under Win7?
I have...
It doesn't work.   
ie: Try to grab/move four faders in the console view.
 

 
No, it doesn't work in Sonar because, as is listed under "What you need" on the CW page I'd linked to earlier, multi-touch as enabled in X2a for some reason requires Win 8 also. But Win 7 did support multi-touch, as Noel acknowledged here:
 
http://blog.cakewalk.com/...s-8-and-touch-support/
 
Btw, have you tried multi-touch in Sonar X2 (not X2a) as originally released, which was supposed to support multi-touch?:
 
http://software.intel.com/sites/billboard/article/cakewalk-intel-and-windows-8-bring-high-performance-touch-enabled-mobile-workflows-musicians
 
Dunno exactly why Sonar hasn't supported multi-touch until Win 8 and X2a. From what Noel said in the blog linked above it may have to do with the UI shift in Win 8. One new feature in Win 8 over Win 7's multi-touch is indirect (trackpad) multi-touch, which X2a does support (if using a trackpad supporting such):
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/D...eq=NewFeatures.03.html
 
Anyway, fwiw multi-touch does work under Win 7 in the UI and in applications which actually support it, for example IE or these:
 
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17368
 

Sonar X2a and Usine are the only two DAW apps that (currently) support multi-touch.
The later (IMO) is not really a main-stream/common DAW app...
At this point in time, you don't really have a choice.  If you want to grab/manipulate several faders/etc within X2a, you have to be running Win8.
I don't think it makes much logical sense to run an un-patched version of X2... so you can use a dated implementation of multi-touch under Win7. 
Multi-touch support was enhanced/refined in Win8...
 
BTW, Multi-touch under Win7x64 doesn't work with any other major DAW application.
Never tried with the stock install of X2...