Was thinking today, as I was going through a lot of trouble building some systems to be compatible with PDParty when it dawned on me that touchscreen monitors are a thing and might offer similar functionality to a tablet without all the hassle/considerations required when designing a PD patch for iOS/Android. Has anybody used a touchscreen monitor to control their PD patches? Are such monitors capable of supporting multitouch or even swipe gestures potentially.

Any info greatly appreciated in advance. Thanks!

@lo94 I came to the conclusion that using OSC messaging and an app for ios/android is the simple solution. I paid the license for TouchOSC (about $5) nearly 10 years ago and now use it on about 20 devices (phones and tablets) at no extra cost.
https://hexler.net/touchosc
Multitouch capability depends on the device but almost all have 5 or more simultaneous touch..... many 10 or more.... way back in 2011 I think 50 was the most..... so?
The iPad2 then had 11....... so we needed to use our nose.. +
David.

@whale-av Ahh yeah that's probably best. I for whatever reason I always overlook OSC. I think it's cause I naturally try to haveas much self contained within one system as possible that I wind up getting tunnel vision and wanting to do it all in one place as opposed to having some sort of bridge between

Does TouchOSC support toggling multiple switches with a swipe? That's something I was looking into adding to PDParty, but perhaps just using TouchOSC would be much easier. Don't want to fall into the sunk cost fallacy if there's an easier route that can piggyback and make prototyping ideas faster.

Also, I believe PDParty supports OSC correct? So Theoretically you could run the guts from PDParty and just do the UI within TouchOSC? Will have to try that out...

Thanks for the response. Your suggestion made me realize the tunnel vision I was having

Ah I forgot that with two way communication between TouchOSC and PDParty may actually be less feasible than I thought. May just setup a rasberry pi for this purpose, run PureData on that and control it from TouchOSC. More hardware than I'd like to incorporate ideally, but maybe the best option long term.

@lo94 there is at least one linux tablet, the PineTab, which would allow you to run plain old puredata on a tablet, they only cost like $100 but are often sold out. You could also pick up an old refurbished lenovo Yoga (perhaps other companies make things like this as well?) for not much more, A bit bulkier but having that keyboard would come in handy at times and it would be completely out of the way when not needed.

@oid I have never heard of that and am immediately interested. Sounds super cool, will have to look into that

Sometime,here is an example

Usefull for complexe interfaces.

@lo94 Hi, I am using PD with an old Surface Pro 3 on linux. You can also use an external HDMI + usb touchscreen monitor.

PD is not really touchscreen friendly, what you are asking (toggling multiple notes (sequencer) with a single swipe) isn't possible without some hacking.

All the best

You gonna need a multitouch driver and a pure data library that can be a client.

You can find all of that here , expect the driver to cost some money.

To give some details:

I bought a 250€ asus VT207N, ten points multitouch. Well responsive and the colors are well rendered. No bad surprises when you do infographies to be printed.
I bought a driver for 80€+20€ lifelong support.

I use a tuio server included in the driver along with a tuio pure data library.
Works perfectly. Each point can trigger anything you want.