Touch screens as music interfaces

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With the relatively new technology of touch screens, I can envision in the near future the equivalent of what a guy like Klaus Schulze surrounded by keyboards and synths was in the 70's / 80's, but now being a guy surrounded by big touch screens which he will use as input to synthesizers, percussions, drum machines, effects, changing the sound parameters and so on, just tapping on them with his hands and fingers.

Do you think the keyboard as we know it will become a thing of the past and touch screens may become an important, perhaps the leading, input controller instrument for the future music?
I know that touch pads exist for a while, but they have not taken off to the extent I'm talking about.

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Gerinski Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: February 10 2010 Location: Barcelona Spain Status: Offline Points: 5093	Topic: Touch screens as music interfaces Posted: June 02 2013 at 03:40
	With the relatively new technology of touch screens, I can envision in the near future the equivalent of what a guy like Klaus Schulze surrounded by keyboards and synths was in the 70's / 80's, but now being a guy surrounded by big touch screens which he will use as input to synthesizers, percussions, drum machines, effects, changing the sound parameters and so on, just tapping on them with his hands and fingers. Do you think the keyboard as we know it will become a thing of the past and touch screens may become an important, perhaps the leading, input controller instrument for the future music? I know that touch pads exist for a while, but they have not taken off to the extent I'm talking about.