I know this was a topic mentioned on the old forums. I searched here to see if someone had taken up the cause. Nothing came up in my search so I apologize if this is a duplicate to another thread, but I’m hoping Native Instruments at some point in the not too distant future will make the effort to provide scalable GUI interfaces for their instruments. Specifically I was working with FM8 and Battery on a 32” 4K monitor for the past two nights.
Trying to work on sounds was so bad, I literally had to take a picture of my screen with my phone and look at the name of the banks and patches to determine what I was seeing. I thought it might be compatibility with Ableton so I tried loading the instrument stand alone but it was set to the same resolution. Eventually, I had to load the patches into Arturia DX-7V and work with it in there because I just couldn’t read the text in the bank browser within FM8. Battery 4 is marginally better for me to read, but I was just using a standard drum set within it, so I wasn’t spending too much time in that UI.
The user experience is… challenging to say the least. Some of these tools have been in existence long enough that NI has had ample time to rework the code base to provide some level of scaleability. Please NI… your tools would be far more useable if those of us on newer monitors could see what we’re working with.
