Old Reaktor ensembles on 4K resolution

Blaise

Is there any chance for Reaktor to display older ensembles in larger size?

Currently it is very painful to the eye to use them on a 43 inch 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) display, they are sooo small!

The current Massive update with resizable UI is a great help, even if it does not resize the graphics… I do not care, it became usable again on 4K!

Can we expect something similar for Reakor to just simply upscale the current graphics of old ensembles, even if they pixelated, etc. ?

Kymeia

It is possible to reskin ensembles in Reaktor to give them higher res graphics - just look at some of the ones by Bolle in the user library for example and ensembles like those from Phuturetone have higher res graphics already eg

Blaise

Thanks for the recommendation, but this is what I would like to avoid… long and tedious reskinning.

colB

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/202126#Comment_202126

Yep, a PITA for sure.

I suppose what it comes down to is what percentage of licenced users have these high resolution monitors, and what percentage of them will stop using/buying Reaktor based products.

Reaktor is currently in maintenance only state, development wise, so there would need to be a compelling argument for NI to push what would be a significant amount of resources into it to re-writing the GUI system for scalability. I expect it is based on very old libraries that were never designed with that in mind, so it might be a major commitment.

I'm still perfectly happy using a 1080p monitor. Works just fine for everything I do. It would be interesting to know what the balance is. Last time the question was tackled a few years ago, most who answered on the forum were in the same 1080p bracket iirc.

Once we get to the point where most new monitors are super hi-res, and that's what the majority of users have, then NI's hand will be forced, and they will have to choose between a big update or retiring the product.

Kymeia

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/202126#Comment_202126

Sure it can be a pain. I would still recomend checking out the User Library though as some older ensembles have been updated with larger more HD GUIs - eg Limelite

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/13861/

Sinebeats

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/13899/

FastFX

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/14267/

Banaan Electrique

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/15239/

Blaise

Awesome examples, thank you!

Blaise

Still a native solution that works on Reaktor side, that just upscales the old ensembles would be cool. They would look kinda ugly, but would be more usable.