Yea I’m one of those i.e. wanting to throw rocks. I got so used to touch screens on my arrangers that when I fire up the s970 I keep wanting to touch the screen to change it.

I will add this for doing any serious computer work I prefer a laptop with a mouse to navigate. My wife on the other hand doesn’t want anything to do with any computer other than an iPad or other touch screen device.

Thanks, Ted & Tonewheel... for sharing your thoughts and knowledge about a facet of technology few understand (or need to understand... as long as it works for us) and appears to be constantly evolving.

My children don't appear to have problems with their touch screen phones or iPads... but I suppose my less than magnetic personality causes all the little disasters I seem to be able to create.

Any day now, our computers will do our thinking for us! LOL! I hope they will have held my funeral before that happens!

I can't figure out why I get out of my car, press a button, lock it, then walk to my front door, press another button, and stand there wondering why IT won't open....

I don't have a problem working with touch screens, but like Steve, when working on my desktop I prefer using a mouse ... can't get used to using the 'touch pad' on laptop.

sparky ...

So, does anyone have a solution to my problem? Maybe a patch that allows the use of a add on pad that replaces the touch screen with buttons?

Rocket scientist that I am... LOL... maybe a solder gun and some hard wiring is your solution... but the risk may be worse than the reward! It is aggravating, though... to think you've "zigged" and the panels says, "You Zagged!"

About the only thing I can think of, is a 3rd party multi-switch (similar to the FC-7, but buttons not pedals.) With a MIDI solutions module, you could probably configure each of the buttons to perform a custom function by sending a MIDI or SysEx message. It wouldn't totally replace the touch screen, but at least you could have your most critical real-time functions replicated in hardware. My $.02.