Easy to Read PC DAW?

[jonljacobi]

I'm sure there must be a way to improve your sight using glasses. If reading glasses don't suffice then maybe prescription glasses?

Switching DAW's just because of that seems a little drastic to me, as it would mean learning a completely different workflow.
Maybe you could just lower your screen resolution, this should make everything bigger.

There are lots of things that go wrong with eyes other than near or far sightedness.

[Edward 321]

I have bad eyes too. Reading glasses don't help. The best I've found so far is cubasis 3 for ios. I can handle basic recording on the iPad screen but once its on my TV, I use it comfortably. It has three different screen layouts. One is for a large tablet, one for a small tablet, and one is for a phone. With the phone setting on a large screen you could be legally blind and use it. I use the tablet setting. The guy is simplified for tiny screens like I phones. You can enlarge all the windows full screen. And all the buttons are big. Even many of the virtual instruments for ios are the same. Check out some screen shots and picture a big screen.

[dan_flash]

I believe Ardour scales really well although I appreciate it's not a popular DAW so won't get much promotion here like. Pretty sure I heard Paul saying once that even the images are written into the code so scaling has never been an issue with Ardour.

[sonidomolino]

a lot of older folks use Cakewalk by Bandlab if you go by the the more active forum posters there...
don't believe fonts are scalable, but it has extensive customizing features to improve contrast and user generated themes that might work for you.

[AdvancedFollower]

I'm sure there must be a way to improve your sight using glasses. If reading glasses don't suffice then maybe prescription glasses?

Switching DAW's just because of that seems a little drastic to me, as it would mean learning a completely different workflow.
Maybe you could just lower your screen resolution, this should make everything bigger.

There are lots of things that go wrong with eyes other than near or far sightedness.

Yep. Reading glasses help but they don't fix the problem for me since it's not just a refractive error. Fortunately it's not so bad that I can't use regular DAWs. For many people, it's not as simple as just "get better glasses".

Lowering the screen resolution is a bad idea because it will make everything blurry. You're better off getting a screen with a lower native resolution. A 27" monitor at 4K will make everything smaller than e.g. a 24" at 1080p. Of course this has the side-effect that you can't fit as much on the screen at the same time but there's really no way around that except maybe a dual-monitor setup.

[T-CM11]

What PC Daw offers an easy-to-read GUI (e.g., parameters and fonts)? I could be wrong, but on Cubase everything is so tiny that I don't think I can use it comfortably (my vision is not sharp anymore). I love how everything is easy to read on Logic Pro, but I'm thinking about getting a PC for various reasons.

- Do you have a recent Cubase Version? Edit > Preferences > General > Enable HiDPI and set it +25% or +50% (restart Cubase)
or
- Replace your screen with a low-dpi one. E.g. 1080P 24", 1440P 32"

[topaz]

Only thing that worked for me (desktop) was min 32 inch 2k

[Teksonik]

I'm sure there must be a way to improve your sight using glasses. If reading glasses don't suffice then maybe prescription glasses?

I have a special pair of prescription glasses just for computer use. They're designed to focus at the distance I sit from the monitor. I highly recommend such glasses.