Are touch screen monitors useful with Maschine?

I'm thinking about getting a touch screen monitor An Acer T272HUL. I am wondering how it would work with Maschine, Bitwig, and Pro Tools. Any light that could be shed on the subject is much appreciated.

 

I have been using an iPad app called air display which basically turns the iPad into a touch screen monitor for my macbook. I find its a lot of fun to tweak settings for the synths or any vst really.

 

Dope dope dope.

 

I found those wi-fi monitor set ups are horrible especially while twisting knobs and stuff super lag time.

 

Yeah I'm gonna be hardwired bro.

 

There is lag in updating the screen over WiFi like I couldn't watch a video or something but for say sliding drawbars or levels in the mixer its fine plus I use the screen on my Mac and just duplicate it on the I pad to use as a touch surface

 

I was thinking about getting a ipad if the come out with a 10 inch that ran OSX and i0S but apple will wait 3 more years hahaha.

 

I just was thinking of an editing desk that was touch screen and got excited. The infinite possibilities of touch screen is crazy. Imagine if these companies actually started designing with touch in mind. I can't believe it's not embraced more. I mean we have dual monitors but now you could have your desk a second monitor. That's insane.

 

I've been thinking about this again recently and about the application of touch screen for "piano roll" input. Especially if the Pattern area could be detached and expanded to full screen on a second display, it would make for a very useful, basic Tenori-On touch sequencer.

 

Yeah I agree. Bitwig has a nice midi edit view just as does Maschine in draw mode. Dope ass step editing capability. Hell I can only imagine FL Studio. Even though I don't use FL Studio they have the dopest step editor in a DAW.

 

You don't have it, but Sonar has supported touch for a couple of years.. from x2 i think. I regularly use a tablet with touchdaw for basic mixing and recording, but for serious stuff its either a control surface or a mouse.

 

so about the iPad doing touch screen type stuff..

do you know if you can use abletons filter with your finger, say like do a little filter sweep in the spectrum box thingy ?

and what about drawing automation?

always thought I should try some sort of a "pen mouse" I don't like the idea of a Wacom tablet..
actually bought one but can't remember why I gave it away.

 

They need to embrace the touch man... Peripherals are good but touch monitors can be one of the most useful things out. I don't know why they aren't taking advantage of it. I saw the Slate "Raven 2.0" it's dope but they should just release the software. I'm not spending 2500 bucks on a touch screen monitor. 1000-1200 yes people are going crazy with these prices. It's an amazing idea though.

 

speaking about twisting knobs on touch screens ...

 

I've done a load of testing on this sort of thing over here - https://www.youtube.com/user/MoltenMusicTech
I'm working with Maschine just at the moment and am finding that everything except the knobs works really well, both with an Acer touch screen and the Surface Pro 3. The knobs have an issue where they shoot to maximum and minimum values and don't move smoothly from one to the other making it nearly impossible to set values in between. This was also a problem in Ableton Live but there's an edit you can do to the Live config file which turns Absolute Mouse Mode on which makes the problem go away. Having found anything like that in Maschine.

But otherwise the Acer screens work well - there is some lag, maybe 5-10ms, so with a good low latency audio interface you can get away with playing drum pads on it.

 

What happened to Maschine software with touch screens? It was fine for a while, and the issue of shooting to maximum or minimum went away. But then recently it doesn't work again. The knobs only move for about a second before stopping, even when you are still dragging and haven't let go. Anyone else having this problem?