KVR Audio

kevvvvv · Post by **kevvvvv** » Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:02 pm

Is is vector graphics / 4k resizeable yet?

Anyone know?

cheers

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:15 pm

No. Gonna take time.

Winstontaneous · Post by **Winstontaneous** » Sat Jun 27, 2020 9:56 pm

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

kevvvvv · Post by **kevvvvv** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 11:50 am

It's been taking forever since forever

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:23 pm

EvilDragon wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:15 pm No. Gonna take time.

..how much time? It hasn't really changed much in 18 years thus far. That seems like a fair amount of time.

I'm very surprised (frustrated) it hasn't been a higher priority.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:25 pm

There's always something else that is higher priority (see Zebra 3). It is just a huge amount of work when the custom baked internal graphical toolkit NI used for everything until recently (when they started using Qt for Crush/Mod Pack and MX), was made 20 years ago and does not know about HiDPI at all. So, it's gonna take a lot of time, since basically the whole GUI and all bindings and interactions need to be reprogrammed from scratch. I cannot tell you how much time, but the scope of the work is humongous.

telecode · Post by **telecode** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:46 pm

maybe makes more sense to make a brand new product that supports 4k graphics but has the features of Kontakt.

enCiphered · Post by **enCiphered** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:50 pm

Kontakt and Reaktor both need a GUI re-design asap, agree.

Why did the OP get a downvoting?

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:01 pm

enCiphered wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:50 pm Why did the OP get a downvoting?

TBH, I stopped trying to imagine why posts get downvoted here. Kids. Enough said.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:37 pm

telecode wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:46 pm maybe makes more sense to make a brand new product that supports 4k graphics but has the features of Kontakt.

True, but this is basically what I said. It's still a pretty monumental task, considering bajillion of features that are in there.

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:41 pm

EvilDragon wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:25 pm There's always something else that is higher priority (see Zebra 3).

There shouldn't be at this point. The UI was designed in an era of Pentium III's and 1024x768, 4:3 ratio tube monitors.

It's absurd that 2 decades later, the flagship sampler platform, for a company that has done so much on it, still has such an antiquated interface. I'm sure it's a huge undertaking, but there should be a serious effort dedicated on this as a top priority. Not kicking the can down the road further simply because it is a lot of work.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 2:59 pm

Well, we don't get to decide what is top priority at any given time. You can bet Mac on ARM is gonna postpone things some more.

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 3:03 pm

I dont think Kontakt will ever get a modern GUI update, NI will just keep going with all the old stuff for as long as they can just adding more pre-sets and Sample packs. Even if Kontakt was updated, I would imagen ever 3rd party developer would also have to update their GUI's against a new framework to realy see any benefit.

I much prefer falcon, but Kontakt has the library and developers legacy (stuff like Output). If they ever make a 'Falcon' version I would switch 'Kompletely'

telecode · Post by **telecode** » Tue Jun 30, 2020 6:31 pm

VitaminD wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:41 pm
EvilDragon wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:25 pm There's always something else that is higher priority (see Zebra 3).
There shouldn't be at this point. The UI was designed in an era of Pentium III's and 1024x768, 4:3 ratio tube monitors.

It's absurd that 2 decades later, the flagship sampler platform, for a company that has done so much on it, still has such an antiquated interface. I'm sure it's a huge undertaking, but there should be a serious effort dedicated on this as a top priority. Not kicking the can down the road further simply because it is a lot of work.

Kontakt 6 was release in 2018, no?

Just curious what % of user base are on 4k monitors? NI should do a survey. My DAW setup still uses 10 year old CPU and monitor. Everything looks find on my setup.

revvy · Post by **revvy** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 4:32 am

Reckon most folks are using computers newer than 10 years old. Still, good for you.

Kontakt is too small for me so when I use it I command + scroll the entire screen to zoom in.

Any news on Kontakt GUI?