Just how small is Props rack at 1440P & 4K within your DAW ?

[V0RT3X]

Pretty small, but i have 20/20 vision so it's not a big deal for me.

I'm guessing the OP has vision problems, that's too bad. Maybe some glasses might help

Anyhow my only issue with running Reason at 4k or beyond is that it lags.

I have a small cheap monitor with a max resolution of 1280x720 that works just fine for reason when I absolutely have to use it. If i use my thunderbolt2 4k display though it lags pretty bad.

I don't have this issue with Bitwig studio though.

[antic604]

But I will also say, the scaling is all over the board. The Transport is HUGE, the left panel is what I'd consider 'normal' sized, while the hardware rack is only moderately sized. Until I reach 200% then things get silly with the various mismatched scaling.

Unless you're doing something strange like running it on 3 screens, each of different size and resolution (eg. 1080p, 1440p and 4K); then I've no clue what you're talking about. Everyhting is getting scaled proportionally by the same ratio set in Windows. The fact that you perhaps think some elements should be bigger or smaller in relation to others is a completely different thing and results from your expectations and/or experience from other DAW(s). And indeed I have few of those myself, e.g. the track headers could be a bit bigger, in particular those dreadded "arrows" you use to collapse & expend the tracks.

But scaling is proportional

[THE INTRANCER]

I'm guessing the OP has vision problems, that's too bad. Maybe some glasses might help

Yeah sure...I can read the smallest aliased text on Studio One's 4's transport bar on a 23.6 inch screen at 1440P resolution from 5 feet away, I have 20/20 vision, no eye deficiencies and never worn or ever needed any glasses for any purpose... If I had any issues with my eyes, I'd know about it with working in Photoshop almost every day.... (I do find it odd how someone you've never seen, met or known to make guesses about someone's vision)

It doesn't change the fact that Reason's rack and it's instruments are tiny when compared to the scalability of VST instruments out there. Reason users might be use to using crazily big screens to try and over compensate for Reason's poor, skewed legacy fonts and handling or using multiple screens to use the DAW. But many who have moved onto single screen setup's like in which Studio One for instance is great with, the thought of needing to use another screen to see instruments in that creaky old Reason rack is just outright balmy..

In fact the size of the rack was one of the reason's I eventually left Reason years ago..

[Obsolete317542]

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[anttimaatteri]

1920x1080 on a 22" tft is pretty much standard nowadays. even on apple hardware haha. its what 800x600 was for years for gui designers from the mid to late 90s on. but thats long ago, since 10 years at least haha. even on my old job 15 years ago i was forced to design interfaces for 1024 width screens. the rack format is far to small for that state of the art tech.

[VitaminD]

"But I will also say, the scaling is all over the board."

thats what i thought too. it took me quite a while to "see" the "inspector" bar haha. the transport bar looks huge compared to it.
i use a 1920x1080 and the rack is really hard to read and looks misproportioned. its not even half the width of the screen. the mixer knobs and fontsand icons are so tiny...

Yeah it really is a mishmash. I'm at 1920x1200 on a 24" monitor with 133% scaling and even at that light amount Reason looks wonky. I tried 125 as well as 150 and 200% too and the mishmash only became further evident the larger the scaling increased.

It is a wonderful concept though, Reason. Just not doing it in the GUI department for me, and if it isn't functional in the GUI dept it is unusable. Too bad.

[chk071]

I had a 22" full HD display until about 1 1/2 years ago or so. When i go back to it now, i'm thinking "Uh... how could you read stuff on that?". My current one is 24.5", and that's fine, even though i wished i would have gone fgor 27"... not so much for the reading factor (works fine on 24.5"), but, just because it's great to have a bigger display. Especially for games. For DAW's as well, of course.

[stearine]

22" full HD

It's how you use it what matters...