Reduced Font Size in Cubase Pro 13 MediaBay BUG?

[NotCold]

Hello,

Among several GUI usability problems introduced with the release of Cubase Pro 13, the MediaBay problem is the show-stopper for me. That is the reason I still use v.12.

Just open the MediaBay by pressing F5 (PC). The MediaBay results use very tiny font (size) making it impossible to do any serious work.

Is that a bug? I really hope so, in a good sense, meaning it will be fixed soon, right!?

Any idea?

[NotCold]

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Any official or half-official news on this!?

Thanks.

[NotCold]

Is this considered to be a bug or not!?

[sempondr]

It’s not a bug, it’s one of many “improvements” from GUI geniuses at Steinberg.
There are many topics about it in this forum.
The official responce was something along the lines “we will try to fix some of it in the future” what exactly will they fix nobody knows.
As you can see they lock topics like that, don’t know why.

Cubase 13 is great, but the look changed for the worse

From the moment I started using Cubase Pro 12 in March of this year I loved the GUI. It felt different from everything else, neither Mac nor Windows, very original and professional. And I loved this weird font that looked old but at the same time not bad, like a good classic car. Not the full GUI, but the buttons like the mute and solo, things like that. [Screenshot 2023-11-02 at 9.53.59 PM] But now Steinberg has taken the awful course that Microsoft has been taking for the last two decades …

[Sebastian_Alvarez]

Oh, stop complaining, it’s very easy! Just go into the view menu, then GUI zoom, then select 125% or 150% and you’re done!

Oh, wait. I was thinking about all the other software that has that choice. Sorry, my bad.

[NotCold]

I can fully understand if their GUI developers made a blunder for the worse, I’m not the kind of guy who complains in public.

My point is that before color changes etc. the most important thing about a UI is READABILITY.

If necessary, I can still use C12 for years to come, no big deal, just wondering if the Steinbegrs developers have a perspective on how such changes impact the usability and workflow…

[NotCold]

@sempondr

“we will try to fix some of it in the future” what exactly will they fix nobody knows.

Well, maybe this is the end of the road when it comes to C13 etc. GUI part. The problem is that I’ve invested a substantial amount of time tagging things and building libraries with the MediaBay concept.

It’s literally a nightmare having to port everything to another DAW. On the other side, it is good that Cubase writes tags into the file,
so maybe a decent script can automatically “translate” tag info into another DAW format?

I’ll give it some time, until the next C13 update, to see if the GUI thing has been improved/fixed - or that font size in MediaBay just rolled back to C12. I will gladly accept that!

[Sebastian_Alvarez]

@NotCold

I can fully understand if their GUI developers made a blunder for the worse, I’m not the kind of guy who complains in public.

Well, many issues in the C13 GUI are not just a “blunder”. A blunder is when you make a mistake and it slips through. Software companies of any kind are supposed to not just design the GUI, but also test it themselves, then beta testing it to a larger group, and then release.

I don’t want to assume, but it seems to me that that testing wasn’t too extensive.

[NotCold]

@Sebastian_Alvarez

I don’t want to assume, but it seems to me that that testing wasn’t too extensive.

Well, maybe they had a tight deadline, as a matter of fact, I saw that other people have complaining about this too, here:

Cubase 13 is great, but the look changed for the worse

I had this in it’s own thread, but since this thread seeems to be the repository for the many GUI related complaints I’ll post it here as well. As someone who has spent literally 100’s of hours creating track presets for all my VI’s across 4 hard drives, I can only describe it as an exasperating design desision to make the search results in the Media Bay SMALLER. Why??? It doesn’t take up any less space, it’ just makes it harder to read. Everything in the left hand pane is the same exact size f…

I sincerely hope that this is something Steinberg will prioritize.

[jonlance]

Any news on this? Font resizing would be a great small little update ,that would help !