Feature Request: Increase GUI scaling to 300% or even 400% for all U-He plugins

[SamDi]

When using 4k Screen and not enabling upscaling options in DAWs (which is thought for older plugins and makes them kind of blurry), then almost all U-He plugins are to small, when set to 200%. The Uhbik ones are even just a quarter of the screen size.

Am I the only one, who wants to have plugins sharp and bigger as they are today on 4k screen, because I didn't find too much about that topic?
Expand GUI sizes to 300%-400% would improove that very much.

[Viktor [TUC]]

We actually made a first step in that direction, the new Uhbiks (update from yesterday) can go to 300% now. Memory and performance has to be tested on a case-by-case basis, we'll see what feedback we get about the new size.

Viktor
u-he team

[SamDi]

We actually made a first step in that direction, the new Uhbiks (update from yesterday) can go to 300% now. Memory and performance has to be tested on a case-by-case basis, we'll see what feedback we get about the new size.

Viktor
u-he team

Thanks for that. This are really great news, because Uhbik was the most PITA in terms of smallness. They look great now on my screen with the newest version

[otherl]

Yay! I just wanted to create the same topic, but it seems I'm not the only one with this problem. Nevertheless it's great that there is already some progress, I will check the new Uhbik builds. I hope we can have this in the other plugins too in the foreseeable future.

[Tracewidth]

Hear, hear.

I've got a killer idea for you: Hive, but BIGger!!

[MrJubbly]

I also previously requested similar support for 4K UHD displays in other u-he topics.

I can confirm that the recently released Uhbik v2 plugins, both look & perform fantastic at their new 300% internal scaling setting.

However, for most other u-he products, which have yet to receive such a similar boost in their maximum UI scaling, there is an extremely effective scaling substitute tip, which I personally use and love (almost all of my u-he plugins are effectively full screen in my particular 4K setup due to it.)

As far as I am aware this method currently only works for the CLAP format of u-he's plugins (the most recent updates.) Any users working on a UHD display with an OS scaling factor setting, greater than 200% (for example: 250%) should see a beneficial boost...

Load the CLAP format of any supported u-he plugin, for example Zebra2 and then change the plugin's internal UI scale from 200% (or whatever other setting you may currently have selected) and set its Default Size instead back to 100% ... Depending upon what your current OS scaling setting is, this may make the plugin expand to almost full screen on a 4K UHD display.

*** Remember to reload the plugin after changing this setting for it to take effect. You may also need to close/reopen your DAW if that doesn't work for you ***

4K UHD Display: Zebra CLAP - Internal Scale 100% - Win 11 Scale 250% ...

Zebra CLAP - Internal Scale 100% - Win 11 Scale 250%.jpg

[Urs]

Some time next year we'll probably start that project for hardware acceleration for UIs on Windows. Once that is tackled, I'm open to talk about 1000% if anyone needs it.

For now, even at 100% we have to reduce some of the graphic overhead of Z3 on Windows. It's so complex, it would be glacial on 300% or beyond...

[xmstkvr]

We actually made a first step in that direction, the new Uhbiks (update from yesterday) can go to 300% now. Memory and performance has to be tested on a case-by-case basis, we'll see what feedback we get about the new size.

Viktor
u-he team

Thanks for that, uhbiks looks amazing on my 4k screen and above 200% (PC, Windows 11, OS scaling set to 200%)

While the rest of the gang (Bazille etc.) looks too small even on 200%.

I'll try CLAP thing that the other user mentioned. However, I am not sure why it works and does not work on VST3. Anyway, looking forward to this.

[xmstkvr]

Load the CLAP format of any supported u-he plugin, for example Zebra2 and then change the plugin's internal UI scale from 200% (or whatever other setting you may currently have selected) and set its Default Size instead back to 100% ... Depending upon what your current OS scaling setting is, this may make the plugin expand to almost full screen on a 4K UHD display.

*** Remember to reload the plugin after changing this setting for it to take effect. You may also need to close/reopen your DAW if that doesn't work for you ***

4K UHD Display: Zebra CLAP - Internal Scale 100% - Win 11 Scale 250% ...


Zebra CLAP - Internal Scale 100% - Win 11 Scale 250%.jpg

I can confirm this is working for Bazille as well, but I am not using CLAP and this only works if OS scaling is indeed set to 250% - I am using 200% and then this is not working (interface is sitll larger than on VST3i and set to 200%). So all in all nice find and workaround thanks.

Offtopic a bit. This was actually my first CLAP plugin installation. Perhaps I am asking something stupid, but if I uninstall VST3i and keep having only the CLAP version, will my host be able to recall instrument settings that were made while I was working with VST3i? The thing is, I am not in the studio; I only tested this today on my notebook.

Obviously, I'll test this when I am back in the studio in a few days, but I was asking myself, would it be worth the hassle at all?