How giant will this touchscreen be?n0nspaz wrote: ↑01 Mar 2018 15:45My main concern was setting up the giant touchscreen in front of me, only to still need the mouse more than say 35% of the time. That’s what I meant by the (vague) ‘rock-solid solution’.
One thing that I am curious about is zooming and scrolling in both edit & mix views. Navigation and viewing clips at different zooom levels are things that I do constantly, and I assume that the hot buttons at the bottom make this faster and easier than traditional methods? Perhaps everyone has different solutions to this.
I've got a standard 27" and it's fine with me. I have no desire for a larger one and it doesn't get in the way of monitor sound or anything.
I have my computer keyboard, trackpad and track ball in front of it.
Everything's accessible, if anything everything's MORE accessible than when I had my ProControl.
For navigation I use a combination of touch, keyboard shortcuts and sometimes even the mouse, but less so.
DTouch added a really handy feature for scrolling, which locks the scrolling direction, per touch, tothe direction in which you first moved.
This works when you touch the center of the NavPad and then drag left, right, up or down. From that center, you can drag in any direction.
But in that normal 360º scrolling mode, I find that (just like with my Magic Trackpad) I almost always mistakenly move up or down a few tracks, when I only wanted to scroll through the timeline, or vice versa.
Now that I can use the NavPad to drag around the content, with this handy new feature, I'm using the trackpad and mouse less and less to scroll.
When it comes to zooming I mainly use the F5 lasso zoom kind of behaviour, the r, t and e keys. I don't find the need to use the DTouch zoom functions.
The banking in the mixer is fine in Pro Tools. It takes a little getting used to but it doesn't bother me. It does what it's supposed to do.
I don't need to bank that much anyway, I have big sessions but I usually have less than 22 tracks/channels visible.