While Cubase plugins appear normal, 3rd party plugins appear very small.
I enclosed two images so you can see the difference between 10.5 and 11
This is also the first thing I tested since this is THE feature I was waiting the most for Cubase 11. After clicking on the āAllow plug-in to be resized optionā, many plugins now appear great. Some however still appear very small, with huge black space around. Itās just the graphic display however, for real, the plugins themselves are resized, and respond to controls where they should be. For example, check the screenshot here, when I click in the middle of the black in the low right corner of Ozone Neutron, it activates the bypass even if it shows in the upper left corner:
Testing so far, by manufacturer, based on plugins I own:
Working, after checking āallow resizeā (initally too small)
- Softube
- Sonimus
- Sonible
- Sonarworks
- Accusonus
Working great out of the box, and no āallow resizeā option even showing (??? why):
- Sonnox
- Spitfire Proprietary Plug-in(not Kontak)
- Arturia (EDIT: I didnāt know about the native plug-in resize option, my bad)
Not Working:
- Izotope
I mean, itās already much better than it was, but any ideas why those last donāt work? Yes, itās easy to throw the blame on those developers, but neither, especially Izotope, is a small company that botches its UI code, and both plugins have shown perfectly resized in Ableton Live for years on my 4K display.
After a quick look.
Waves work - change the zoom within the plugin, waves background are a bit grainy but thatās a waves problem
Arturia work - I have no problems with Arturia, set the zoom in the plug in, no need to touch the cubase āallow plug-in to re-sizeā option
Roland Cloud work - again set the zoom natively within the plug in
Toontrack (SD3) work - appeared to behave as it should
NI Kontakt looks awful. I donāt know whether being able to click the āreset interfaceā option within the Kontakt options would help but once you click the āallow plug-in to re-sizeā option in cubase, the button for that Kontakt āresetā option is outside the area that is shown, so canāt be clicked.
Confirm Izotope donāt size. I canāt find an option to zoom the gui natively within the Izoptope GUI. Using the cubase āallow plug-in to re-sizeā option, just leaves a small plug in gui surrounded by black space.
Iāll check more later.
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I switched OFF HiDPI and stuff looks like it supposed to look on my 4K monitor.
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āI switched OFF HiDPI and stuff looks like it supposed to look on my 4K monitor.ā
Yep, this is what I did. Seems mad, but it works.
If you turn it off then Cubase is not taking advantage of the fantastic DPI that your 4k monitor has. Cubase and all the plugins that support resizeable GUIās look so much better with HiDPI on. So far Iām only having issues with Native Instrument and Izotope. Most of the other major players work fine in HiDPI and either scale the GUI using the plug-ins built in option, or use the the Cubase āAllow plug-in to resizeā option for those that donāt have it baked in to the plug-in.
The solution of removing HiDPI worked for Toontrack plugin for me. It is strange that still two years after this post so many plugins do not have the option to resize their windows. I found one recently (unusually) but most do not.
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An alternative to turning off HiDPI is to use the windows magnifier just for those moments when youāre editing too-small plugins.
Firstly, drag your plugin to the middle of your screen and place your mouse pointer in the middle of the screen.
Next, hit windows & + to open the magnifier. Repeat window and + to magnify to 200%
Now you can tweak your too-small pluginā¦when youāre finished tweaking, do windows key plus - (minus sign) to return to the normal zoom setting.
Obviously you donāt get super-nice scaled graphics with this method, but i think itās a pretty decent workaround for just getting the job done.
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