Touchscreens

You could rotate the screen to portrait, physically and in your graphics settings, then set the resolution to 800x600, PTQ will then scale to the whole width of the screen and most of the height (if you set up your GPU/Monitor scaling feature) so the buttons would be much easier for you to touch.

Graham:  Thanks for the suggestion.  I was hoping to use a ledge underneath the monitor for paper sheet music music.  Would look a little odd if the ledge was on the side when the monitor rotates.  The design I have in mind won't allow for rotation anyway.

clementi_clementine:  The stand is an On-Stage W8700:

http://www.pssl.com/!pDQet7JACLW!zSbmhY...onStand--s

Obviously I didn't use some parts.

The sheet music stand was custom designed to fit the WS8700

I hope everyone will keep us posted on their experiences with PianoTeq and touch-screen monitors.

I received the 21.5" HP Compaq L2105tm touchscreen monitor yesterday.

I'm using it with XP and it works quite well.  For the most part, using my finger on the Pianoteq interface at the monitor's native 1920 x 1080 resolution works just fine.  Adjusting the velocity curve, EQ and other inputs that require a more precise input work great with the included stylus.

As you can see, I'm running a bit short of space in my corner (the big, fat cat doesn't help), so I designed a replacement music stand that incorporates a 100mm VESA monitor mount.  The mount is adjustable for height, +/- 15 degree tilt and swivel.  Underneath the monitor is a ledge for holding sheet music.  It is wide enough to hold 3 sheets.

I hope to have the monitor mount / sheet music stand together by next weekend.

I finally got all of my parts together and got the touchscreen installed this weekend. 

I designed the parts and had them fabbed up at work. It was a lot more expensive than I thought it was going to be, I would have probably have been better off to buy a existing monitor stand or use the existing stand and fabricate a shelf on my keyboard stand.

In my mind, the important part is the sheet music shelf that allows me to use the monitor as a regular music stand when I am using paper sheet music.  I put a tab towards the top of the shelf for me to stick the magnetic base for the Mighty Bright Duet2 LED sheet music light. The sheet music shelf could have been mounted in-between the existing stand and the monitor.  The shelf and monitor are wide enough to hold three 8-1/2" x 11" sheets.

All of the monitor cables (DVI, USB for touchscreen, and power) are hidden in the round support tube and I added a shoulder bolt for hanging my headphones when not in use.

FoxIt pdf reader works great for full screen display of two sheets of sheet music side by side.

I have blurry video that shows using the Pianoteq interface on the touchscreen that I am trying to upload to Youtube.  I will post the link if I can get it to work.

Like I said before, Pianoteq works fine just using my finger for most functions.  For setting the velocity curve and EQ it is better to use the stylus that came with the monitor.

An alternative program that is also free is PDF-XChange Viewer located at http://www.docu-track.com/.  I like this program because it allows you to annotate a pdf file and save the edits, but does not put in markings like FoxIt pdf reader does for the same capabilities.  It does do this for some other capabilities, but you can use PDFill PDF Tools (free) located at http://www.pdfill.com/ to overcome those limitations.  PDF-XChange Viewer seems to work fairly well with a touchscreen.

I don't have anything close to the nice setup being discussed in this topic, but I do have a laptop with a touchscreen (12 inch screen) that I have been using for a couple years with Pianoteq.  For my purposes, the laptop has worked reasonably well when playing Pianoteq and using PDF-XChange to display the music I am playing.

Looks like a very sweet setup.

Hate to say the obvious, but there is probably a market for this kind of monitor\music stand. I don't think anyone has something quite like this out there. (?)

Good to the see that your cat has been restored to one piece.