Just a thought. Instead of replacing the f keys and escape, they should have just replaced the whole area under the keyboard where the trackpad is with a touch screen. It is a win-win. Imagine a huge touch interface where we already expect one, with haptic feedback AND visual feedback.

We can already imagine that. Apple increased the size of the touchpad for no good reason. And palm rejection constantly fails causing the cursor to jump as you're typing or pressing key shortcuts.

I can see them expanding the cursor behavior in iPadOS into macOS, where its magnetic and it's more like a touch surface.

If there was any trackpad to pull that off its the macbook trackpads.

It depends on the execution.

It feels super nice on iPad and if you're running a Catalyst app or such on macOS that's designed for it, it could be cool to be able to toggle between the cursors.

I would agree on the macOS point right now, but big surs design style leans heavily towards a style that would probably work quite well with it.

I would only want it as an option, I would in no way want it to be the only option. I just think the different cursor types could benefit different types of applications.

Asus ZenBook Pro Duo has a huge secondary display on top of the keyboard.

Alternatively Macbook already has big touchpad, add a screen like Asus ScreenPad.

> Every part of this UI would be better without it--physical keys to play the samples

There's one part that wouldn't be possible with keys since it loops the part of the sample between two fingers (41-48s).

> a big touchpad to use slider controls with

That'd be the iPad version of Samplr.

Not fair - apple may have not made great use of their own touch bar, but better touch tool and the plugins users have made makes it really, really good.

You ever played synths?