2013/10/04 03:22:17
EliasO
Hello People!!
 
I hope you are all well and producing good music!! :)
 
So, what do you guys think about MIXING with touch screens? Do you think its the future in mixing? Well, to me it seems nice to have a touch screen to navigate through the project, insert effects in tracks and do all the things that buttons do right?
How about mixing the faders?? Has anyone had any experience in MIXING with a touch screen?
How is the response time? If you have say a GOOD touch screen with a fast response time like 2-5 ms? How accurate is moving a fader with touch? 
I think it would be a bit of a pain to control effects and pan with a touch screen right?
 
What do you think??
2013/10/04 06:16:15
davdud101
I think it's cool, but not really the 'future'. It doesn't personally have any bearing on the sound of my mixes, give it may be more or less accurate than using a mouse.
2013/10/04 10:05:27
AT
Touchscreen mixing isn't going to save the world.  You can't double-click, as far as I can tell, yet.  And most engineers who've tried it prefer real faders.
 
However, scrolling through a project is easier, as is expanding/contracting your screen, and knobs should be easy even tho you don't have tactile feedback (important for faders but knobs, not so much).  At this point, touch is more about navigation, and works well as another method of control w/ mouse (for delicate changes that might be fastest) and keyboard.
 
As we discover what works best touch will get better.  Like double clicking - that should work if the screen is fastest enough, but how well that works without false opening is something that needs a lot of experimenting to make work right if it can.  Mostly it involves writing the software to take advantage of the possiblities and feels natural.  Like how Cake makes where you click on a track heightwise with the mouse now) perform different operations.
 
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