For some reason Padshop and Retrologue are not fully resizable on my Win 11 system when using the mouse to drag the plugins borders? The only thing that changes is the width of the media bay dock.
What am I missing? 
Hi,
make sure to activate HiDPI in both your preferences (Edit>Preferences>General) and in Retrologue and Padshop as well by clicking on the cogwheel
Close and reopen your VSTi plugin and you will see this dialog after clicking on the dropdown menu arrow in the top right corner of Retrologue/Padshop:
You can also assign key commands to increase/decrease the scale.
Yes, I have HiDPI settings now enabled and can access the scaling menu - but itās scaling via mouse drag that doesnāt work. I just watched the Dom Sigalas video I thought he shows rescaling/resizing can be done with a simple mouse drag on the plugins border but I see now he probably used some hot keys.
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Donāt worry, you are not the first one todayā¦ it looks like it at first glance. However, if you take a closer look at Domās tutorial you will notice that the scaling is not continuous - there are jumps. Even if you use decrease and increase - this will just trigger fixed values. In other words, continous scaling is not possible and Dom uses key commands to trigger fixed default values.
Dragging the edges will enlarge certain parts of the VSTi but it will not rescale the plugin itself. Sorry, I forgot to mention that in my post earlier before.
All good. Thanks for chiming in. 
? There is no need to enable HiDPI in Cubase at all for resizing of the resizable pluginsā¦
Disable HiDPI in Padshop/Retrologue and open the dropdown menu to scale the plugin. You can pick any value but it will not rescale and jumb back to 0%. Close the VSTi and open it again and the scaling dialog is gone altogether.
If you reactivate HiDPI again make sure to quit and relaunch the VSTi in order to see that scaling dialog again. Now, it will work as expected again with HiDPI enabled.
? I donāt use Cubase in HiDPI mode at all and I still can resize all the resizable plugins just fine and that was my comment aboutā¦
Ah, okay. I have to activate HiDPI on Windows 10 and 11 in order to scale VSTis. Are you on a Mac by any chance? I wasnāt aware that this might be OS specificā¦?
Interesting. No, I am on Windows 10 and scaling works just fine for me even with HiDPI disabled.
On macOS itās completely weird. The āUI Scalingā in Retrologue/Padshop is greyed out, but the āUser Interface Scalingā for the plugins in the Cubase menu around the plugin works.
Haha, this has some Monty Pythonesque qualities to it. I think we are talking about different things here, guys:
- HiDPI in the preference dialog in Cubase
- HiDPI check box in the VSTis
- āUI Scalingā under the cogwheel of the VSTi and last but not least
- āUser Interface Scalingā under the function dropdown menu at the top right of the VSTi
First of all, I stand corrected - No1 is not a prerequisite for No4 to work; in fact, it doesnāt even affect No3 which does not work anyways. No4 only works if No2 is active. No3, as mentioned ealier before, is just there.
I guess they have kept it like that because of backward compatability. Tricky: Either you clean up these double entries (UI Scaling / User Interface Scaling plus double scaling options) or you mess up other things.
Iām fine with it, either way. Besides, I like Monty Python.