PC Touch Screen response time for Quickshow2?

[norty303]

I afraid of spending the cash and being stuck with a sluggish controller tho.

Can you explain what you are referring to by 'controller' here? Do you mean the touch screen, or the midi device?

Neither are likely to be affected much by any half modern PC machinery (and by that I mean any dual core or newer hardware built in the last 5 years).
I use an old T61 Thinkpad with WinXP, 2GB RAM (ultimate gig-proof machine, semi waterproof keyboard membrane, titanium chassis, shock protected HDD, keybaord light, etc) and a 15" ELO 1525 touchscreen (gig-proof, hard wearing, and pretty indestructible). See the theme? Not shiny and fancy home user stuff, but solid, reliable stuff that I can gig hard and know it's going to work. Some of those home workstations look ever so fragile, and often the screen is too upright to use in 'table' mode when you're standing at your controls at a gig. The ELO's tilt horizontal if you want them to.
They all survivied a very wet festival in a leaky tent, where the Novation controller didn't... but the show went on.

Any latency in the midi is purely down to the protocol, not the hardware, and touchscreen latency is so low as to not exist really.

I think you may be getting your knickers in a twist about latency to be honest. If it was an issue, people would be moaning about it.

P.S. What Dan says, my laptop is one of my gig machines, it only has software associated with lasers and lighting.

[BourbonWelfare]

Some good pointers there Norty,thanks man.
I was referring to a Touchscreen controller as I had heard a few people on here now have said they were convinced that touchscreens were definitely quicker in terms of response time when triggering cues in Quickshow. But if it's not really a problem with these new fangled machines then nae bother.

Festival proof sounds like a valuable asset in terms of things to look out for when comparing brands... Also tilting to a comfortable operating position would be a must and you reckon on no internet and/or porn on the show machine....
But what am I gonna do on site during the day?

[norty303]

A lot depends on how you want to use the controller tbh.
I use the touchscreen for cue triggers as its a visual element, and the midi controls the effects, sliders, buttons, etc.
however, with controllers like the APC you can now do cue triggering from them.

I prefer 'press the picture' type interaction as I find that a good chunk of dynamics in the show is not selecting cues in time, it's manipulating cues in time with the music.