If this has already been posted, I apologize.
 
According to this link, Windows 7 supports multi-touch.  Way more than the 10 digits that are on your hands.  :D
 
I bought a touchscreen not all that long ago.  I sold my Mackie control and got it while I still could.  The way I figure it, once touchscreens become more accepted, it'll be the way to go.
 
That being said, I haven't had the chance to mess with it with the holidays.  I've hooked it up, but haven't tested it out.

Still have to do the hardware upgrade for this... Current hardware still working nicely....

bandso
As much as I'd like to have a MTx I'm not going to drop $30K even if it is one of the coolest new tool around. NewEgg.com has 46" touch screen monitors for as low as 23 hundred. Give that a few years and they will be under a grand.

It's not "$30k it's $3500.  Big difference.

I too am an early adopter of Touch Screen and SONAR... it works great by the way.  I have 2 touch monitors (a 23 inch and a 27 inch) both from ASUS (very nice monitors BTW and not too expensive).
 
At first, the novelty of touch intrigued me but now after about 6 months with this setup, I still find myself using the mouse MORE then the TOUCH features.  It's more than just habit, I realize the precision tweaking of knobs is easier with a MOUSE versus TOUCH.  
 
I am using WIN 8 and Xc.  I also use a SURFACE RT as a remote desktop for tracking sessions, where in the mouse is OUT and I have to rely on keyboard shortcuts to control the transport during tracking. The RT screen is too small for precision TOUCH moves but this beats walking back and forth to the DAW PC to start and end tracking sessions.
 
So, despite the WOW factor of having touch, I have to say that the mouse and keyboard shortcut combination is my preferred method of working with SONAR.  Glad I found this out without buying a SLATE multi K setup. :-)
 
Jim

Maybe they need a hype man?
 
http://startoftheline.wor...21/top-5-the-hype-man/

4K has to go cheaper first ,then we start talking touchscreen.
Nothing less can work good with today`s DAWs,too many small boxes.
My humble opinion.
Peace

Im not sure if 4k will catch on in th manstream enough to lower price. 3d tvs have been a total failure so far. We are still tweaking delivery of hd content.

MacFurse
 
As much as I 'want' to stay touchscreen, (the reason I bought my all in one touchscreen desktop), after losing many weeks of work due to a bug that crawled across the screen and deleted a complete project!!!!!!!!!, I have resisted the urge to return to that work environment.
 

This one is news to me! I've been concerned about accidental touches (not using a TS yet) , but I've never come to think about an actual bug being able to do such damage. If this can really happen, living in the countryside, it sure is one more reason to wait and see. Well, I'm aware of crawlers of respectable size in city flats as well. Does anyone have any idea of how big a bug you need to edit your projects anew?

Just got a Dell touchscreen - 21.5 inches.  It tilts almost flat, so it has replaced my 61 key keyboard underneath my big (non-touch) screen - right underneath.  I double the screen so they each show the same thing.  I've gotten familiar w/ D & B shortcuts (when I used 2 screens stretched I floated the dock on screen 2) and a slim browser to the right of the track view. 
 
I'm still on windows 7 so props to the link above about touch 7.  I'll dig into that tomorrow, time willing.
 
As several people have remarked, it is an adjunct to mouse and keys, not a replacement.  So far, I've found it great for the alchemy performance pad.  Now, if I can figure out how to record those movements in SONAr.  Touch does work great w/ softsynths & effects w/ lots o' knobs.  Most of the other stuff I'm still working the old fashioned way.  A mouse does give better fine control, but I can switch easily from right hand on the touch w/ my left over the space bar for start/stop.  I'm sure we'll all figure out our optimum way of working.
 
It would be nice of Cake to walk us through a video using touch, not working on a project but methodologies of using touch for certain features.
 
Touch is here but still evolving - glad Cake is on the cutting edge.  A lot of things are just more natural w/ touch.
 
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I checked and the MTX is going now for about $16 to $17K
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Raven-Mult-Touch-Production-Consoles-g26737t0.gc
 
That is still pretty darn expensive compared to a typical 46" touchscreen. I'm sure I'll get one eventually, just not for a year or two until the prices drop a bit.
 
The MTI is $2500
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Slate-Raven-MTI-g26879t0.gc?esid=MTI
yet a 27" touchscreen is $700 to $2k