Current hardware: Zoom UAC-2 Audio Converter, Behringer FCB-1010 Foot Control Board w/ Custom Firmware
Desired features: Touch screen interface to play with VST on-the-fly while jamming or performing the same way I would with a physical setup, though with obvious limitations relative to a physical setup. 2-in-1 preferred so I can set it on a music stand.
Tentative selection based on personal research: Lenovo Yoga 720-15IKB w/ i7-7700HQ, (4 cores w/ HT, 3.4Ghz 4-core turbo) 8GB RAM. ~$1,000.
Questions:
- Does anyone have experience using a touch screen with guitar effect VSTs like these? Is it as usable as you expected it to be?
- Does the price, lower performance, or any other caveats of a 2-in-1 outweigh the usefulness of the touch screen interface, especially since I already have the FCB-1010? I understand this is subjective. Opinions welcome.
- Is the i7-7700HQ a good enough processor for my most demanding potential use case? (At most: Hosting guitar effect VST, looping/one-man-band-ing with Live, [meaning more than one VST might be running at once] and rough recording live performance via FOH/BOH returns - all at once.)
- There's a potential for this computer to become my main music rig due to a possible switch to Linux now that PCI passthrough in a VM is a thing for gaming. My 4790K never goes above 50% utilization for any of the concept work that I do. Will the 7700HQ be enough for this sort of thing? I don't want to have to micromanage a bunch of frozen tracks.