The best thing about 1920x1080 pixels on a 65" screen is that you fingers will not seem so pudgy.


That's cause the 1920x1080 pixels are big and blocky and unsuitable to be viewed from arms length unless you really enjoy big blocky pixels seen from a fraction of the distance they were intended to be seen from.



Mice, Tablets, track balls etc. and 96dpi displays let you do fine detailed work.



It amazes me to think that an industry thinks it's going to revive a global sales slump by catering to people who want to use pudgy flesh stumps to do work without regard for fine detail while hunkered up against a oversize blurry display.




I barely enjoy using touch on the mp3 player in my phone... why would I torture myself trying to edit music with a technology like that?



I think touch is gonna be great if I ever take up playing MS Solitaire again... and that's about it.



all the best,
mike

I don't think we've reached the point where touchscreen technology is optimised, either soft or hardware.  On the hardware front, touch is simply not good for some operations.  vol faders is a good example, where the tactile feedback and resistence is part of the engineering experience.  And knobs.  It is completely natural to twist a knob.  But how do you twist a virtual knob.  Most mouse knobs you travel up and down.  So the software could replace all the knobs with sliders.  Or Cake (or some other enterprising firm) could piece together a touchscreen w/ physical knobs to the side (or less ergonomic at the bottom/top).  Touch the screen knob and use the physical knob to adjust the parameter.  The same w/ a vol fader.  A real motorized fader - touch the channel fader and the phsysical fader gets focus and fade away ...

That is step one.  But software integration - writing the software for touch, is even more important.  There are a lot of jobs that would be easier in touch than mouse.  Scrolling - what is quicker, grabbing a small button or arrow off to the side or simply swiping up or down and touching to stop?  What is easier to expand the view - pinching or grabbing another small bar and sliding it right or left.  I'll be interested in seeing how well X2a and Win 8 makes navigating a project in all directions and changing sizes.  And once you focus how well it opens up the focus - like an eq or synth.  Touching for toggle and resizing your screen ought to be easy, but how easy editing is is another question.

I don't much like paying for apple products and Steve Jobs is dead, but from what I've heard from people he was a real as ... tough making the designers design for dead easy manipulation.  So easy even a bass player could understand and adapt to the product.

touch screen is coming, but it will be a supplement to the things we already know how to do well.  It should help speed up engineering where it can, and leave knobs and vol faders to do the things those do best.

I'm looking forward to it. Had I kept abreast of what was happening in the computing world I would have held off from purchasing my current laptop music workstation.

And I think that is the main difference between me and most of the sceptics here, is that having since gone down the laptop route, my screen is already at my fingertips. Being able to zoom and scroll and all that stuff, by using my fingers on a screen, sounds such a good idea to me now.

I have already adapted to working with a small monitor, and X2 really helps with that with it's marvellous screen layouts and the multidock. So being able to use my fingers as the pointing device would actually speed things up for me.

Of course, I am not a pro, and so I don't have to sit in front of my laptop all day, and I can understand why some peeps don't see touch screens as a way forward.

Just setup Sonar X2a with a 23" Acer touchscreen laying at an angle with a 27" Asus monitor behind that. It takes some getting used to a touch screen mixer but its very simple to use. I was not able to get multi touch for Sonar to work with windows 7 so I had to upgrade to windows 8. Very happy with the setup so far no complaints other then missing real knobs. The setup was fairly inexpensive also.. a lot cheaper then buying a digital mixer. Here is a youtube video of a little demonstration. http://youtu.be/Ww0MEO1fk6g