Hi, folks. I’m trying to run Halion 7 in Ableton on a Mac Studio with a 4K monitor. The plugin interface is so tiny that I can’t see it. The standalone version of Halion 7 has a resizing option that works perfectly. Apparently, the plugin version for Cubase also has this feature. I’m not going to switch DAWs. Are Ableton users out of luck?
Are you on the latest version of the HALion 7 plug-in? Check in the functions menu of the plug-in header if the option appears greyed out in the “gear-icon”.
Thank you very much for the prompt reply! I’m using Halion 7.1.51.1043. I’ve clicked everywhere and I can’t find a Functions menu. The only gear icons I see are for the browser and neither one of them has a Functions item, grayed out or otherwise.
Ah, I see … my screenshot above is with the HALion 7 plug-in hosted in Cubase on Windows … the bit that has the scaling menu for the plug-in is actually a toolbar which is part of the standard hosting UI in Cubase.
This bit:
… that doesn’t exist in Ableton.
So, I loaded Reaper and found that same problem … but found the solution – in hosts other than Cubase/Nuendo, you need to open the Options Editor and then you can select from the “UI Scaling” drop-down:
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Wow! You found it! They hid this item pretty deep, didn’t they? Thank you VERY much!
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The clue was in a post by @Florian_Haack announcing UI scaling in the Padshop 2.3 update where it says “In other hosts you can find this in the “options” menu”, and the same applies to e.g. the Retrologue 2.5 update.
Unfortunately this information is not yet in the HALion 7 manual, and although the “Version History” document describes this very important new feature, it does not specifically say how to use it in hosts other than Cubase/Nuendo, but it does have this:
… so, while that’s true for hosts other than Cubase/Nuendo version 15 and newer, the following applies to the these:
While the logic is correct in the way this is described, I find it quite confusing.