Velocity might be easier/better implemented using an accelerometer (like in many i-devices and fones) rather than by touch sensing.
 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff827744.aspx
 

 What if the pads were more like strips, and where you touched on the strip effected the velocity. Kind of like the preview strip that's in BFD2.
  Morphwiz is a synth being developed by Jordan Rudess with a touchscreen keyboard that allows you to control modulation by sliding your finger up and down the key. I'm thinking that you could have drum pads that control the velocity in the same way. 

Did anyone catch the Juce reference. Maybe Sonar will eventually port to Apple if they use that platform since using it made touch easier.

V Control is an app for an ipad where touch IS the program on the screen. With a touch screen the need or even the desirability for an app to control Sonar vanishes. 
 
My view is the hardware we use to input data (MIDI) and control Sonar wont be replaced by touch only enhanced by it. 

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V Control is an app for an ipad where touch IS the program on the screen. With a touch screen the need or even the desirability for an app to control Sonar vanishes. 
 
My view is the hardware we use to input data (MIDI) and control Sonar wont be replaced by touch only enhanced by it. 

Well Done John

I don't know what it wrong with you Edward but you're posting the same thing after any post I make is harassment and is in violation of the TOS. 
Please stop. 

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I'm totally picturing my kid snapping sticks hard against the monitor... jamming away with the monitor flat... until...
 
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I'll need a touch screen with tempered glass!
 
And we'll have to mic the monitor to get that natural sound of sticks on glass to mix in with the synth!

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JohnMy view is the hardware we use to input data (MIDI) and control Sonar wont be replaced by touch only enhanced by it. 

Absolutely John, I think that's partly why a lot of people are very cynical about windows 8 and the whole touch screen thing as they don't see it as being practical and it's more of a toy for kids.
But as people have suggested here, velocity sensitive touch screens are something microsoft (and I'm sure lots of other companies) are working on so it wasn't just a whimsical fantasy on my part
I noticed in the two videos I posted someone was playing a piano/keyboard and was wandering if it was a velocity sensitive screen. Surely it would still use midi anyway ? The tapping on the touch screen would send midi data to what ever software was being used ?
 
The big question for me would be, how sensitive can they be made ? What I mean is some those platinum sample kits that I have for BFD2 have up to 256 velocity layers, I'd be interested to hear from owners of drum pads how many velocity layers they have.
Or does it not work that way ?
 
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Some vst instruments' gui keyboards change velocity depending on whereabouts on the key you click, so maybe it'll be a combo touch/software thing? Also, isn't midi velocity just 0-127 range? My padkontrol is...

I'm totally picturing my kid snapping sticks hard against the monitor... jamming away with the monitor flat... until...
 
CRACK
 
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I'll need a touch screen with tempered glass!

 
Well it's primitive and it's 6 years old but for the purpose of laying down a quick groove then something like this might be all we'd need. As far as I know finger drum pads and keyboards don't do much more than what this guy is doing and on a larger screen if the drum pads could be zonally sensitive so that they could play different articulations (Tricky for hi-hats) it could be quite useful. Obviously a keyboard would give you the full range of articulations and chokes too but I find them awkward to play.
 
Virtual Drums Pocket PC
 
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