Portable Touch Screen Monitors

[OneWorld]

I've noticed a number of very slim, portable monitors, some touch screen, one in particular I am looking at is the following, 16" would these work with Cubase? I quite like the idea of a 16" mixer

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/387970156235 ... 52XJDY8NVQ

[Matt Houghton]

To my mind, it rather depends on the screen resolution — ie how much you're trying to cram into view on that screen. I have a 1920x1080 27-inch touchscreen here and use that with Cubase and other software. It works pretty well for grabbing faders, drawing in automation etc. But Cubase, like many desktop music apps, isn't designed with touch use in mind, so lots of its controls and menus are quite small. That 1080p:27" relationship between screen resolution and touch screen size seems about optimum to me. Any smaller at that resolution and I reckon the touch accuracy would start to become problematic unless you were prepared to use a stylus.

[James Perrett]

I've noticed a number of very slim, portable monitors, some touch screen, one in particular I am looking at is the following, 16" would these work with Cubase? I quite like the idea of a 16" mixer

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/387970156235 ... 52XJDY8NVQ

Get yourself a Wacom One pen display.

https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pe ... /wacom-one

My lad has one and it is great for on-screen mixers. A touch screen monitor is very primitive in comparison - I have a touch screen in the studio and it is great for large buttons but lacks the precision that a mixer needs.

Looks like CEX have used Wacom Ones in stock.

[OneWorld]

I've noticed a number of very slim, portable monitors, some touch screen, one in particular I am looking at is the following, 16" would these work with Cubase? I quite like the idea of a 16" mixer

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/387970156235 ... 52XJDY8NVQ

Get yourself a Wacom One pen display.

https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pe ... /wacom-one

My lad has one and it is great for on-screen mixers. A touch screen monitor is very primitive in comparison - I have a touch screen in the studio and it is great for large buttons but lacks the precision that a mixer needs.

Looks like CEX have used Wacom Ones in stock.

Now that's interesting, I actually have one of the Wacoms under the bench but never pressed it into service. That was because it was apparent that it took more than 5 minutes to setup in an optimal way for my particular use. I might just be inclined to have a tinker

[Matt Houghton]

I have a touch screen in the studio and it is great for large buttons but lacks the precision that a mixer needs.

I'd say that depends on the software, really. I can be precise with it if I have large faders on screen, and with Cubase you can configure different MixConsoles for different things... such as full height faders. It gives me more than enough precision if I want to work that way. Some (not all) other DAWs are less versatile in this respect. But I generally don't want to work that way, because another downside of touchscreens is that your fingers often obscure the thing you're trying to adjust! It's not like with an iPad etc., where all the software has been optimised for touch and sometimes multitouch operation.

[OneWorld]

What a twerp, I am writing this on my iPad, which I keep forgetting can be a remote controller, AFAIK

I only want to control faders, I have 2 hardware controllers but with something like the iPad, I could sit back, put my feet and do a comfortable mix

[Matt Houghton]

What a twerp, I am writing this on my iPad, which I keep forgetting can be a remote controller, AFAIK

I only want to control faders, I have 2 hardware controllers but with something like the iPad, I could sit back, put my feet and do a comfortable mix

Yep, an iPad would do it. Lots of options for remote control apps as well, not just screen extension.

[OneWorld]

Yes, seems he icPro offered by Steinberg is the default option, but there's a YooToob that sys the AV app is far superior, claiming the icPro ios patchy, slow etc choices choices