I don't know... I think touch is an interesting idea, but you have to LOOK at the screen.  With 'knobs' etc it's by feel - in the same sense I can't imagine playing 'touch guitar' or 'touch keyboard'.
 
I think work needs to be done on what touch really works well for - and that may be a subset of 'everything you can do with a mouse'. 

cityrat
I don't know... I think touch is an interesting idea, but you have to LOOK at the screen.  With 'knobs' etc it's by feel - in the same sense I can't imagine playing 'touch guitar' or 'touch keyboard'.

The greatest part of touch is I touch what I want to automate. The controllers don't always map to what you need at that moment. I think that with ACT the controllers map very fast and about as well as you could hope, but still, you monkey around when you change to a VST or back to the Console or to Track View. When I touch something on the screen I get what I'm after. I'm able to control the variance fairly well. there are times when values flicker high and low or something while I change a parameter, but that's something that happens far less with practice.
 
For me, I tend to use touch or use the mouse. I don't switch quickly back and forth. I love touch when I am actually playing my guitar or keyboard. Switching from the instrument to the mouse is much clunkier than just touching the screen.
 
I also like it for adjusting faders. I have used it some on the fly out EQs and it does work, but I am more likely to EQ with the mouse while mixing. I find touch hard on some plugins like the BlueTube plugs. They have buttons too small to use touch with. I repeatedly stab at the buttons with my big fingers and get frustrated.
 
I'm very fast with a mouse, so it doesn't take much frustration for me to switch to the mouse.
 
I do a ton of envelope automation, so not being able to work with envelopes is a touch constraint which pushes me to the mouse.
 
Once I sit back and put my hand on the mouse, it takes a while before I switch back to touch.
 
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Touch is tons of fun with a friend!
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Read this as you want. :-)
 
Using touch makes it possible for two people to tweak a mix together in a really fun and cooperative way.
 
 
 

Any recommendations for a large touch screen monitor?

Define large.

Also, touch monitors come with different numbers of concurrent touch points.

dubdisciple
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.

I think we'll see 4k touch pretty soon with the competing tablet/phone markets and the development of the Oculus Rift. Tablets require very high resolution touch at the under $500 price point and the Oculus Rift needs 4l since it's so close to your face. 
 
IMHO, 3dTV was a failure because consumers don't like wearing something on their faces to consume media. I'm fairly certain 4x will catch on pretty quickly.