Please make all UIs scalable

+1 scalable UI for all products.

The older NI plugins come from a time where 1024x768 was not too bad. I can imagine it takes much time and effort to come up with a feasable and economic solution for a scalable UI for older bitmap-based products.

If it is a vecor-based UI, I personally don't prefer the plugins to turn into pure flat-design. I.m.o. too many plugin devs choose this style nowadays, because it is the easiest way to have scalable UI. I think it gets boring, uninspiring and makes plugins look the same all over the place.

I like NIs nice newer designs with 3d-ish elements and interesting looks. Like for instance their newer scalable plugins Guitar Rig 6 (has great looking skeumorphic and scalable devices), MassiveX and effects like Dirt, Flair, etc.

On the other hand there are scalable bitmap-based plugins like those from Arturia. They replicate the real hardware look with bitmap graphics in a wide range of crisp high def resolutions from very small to very large.

And then there are people like me for whom this is technically a solution to the annoyance of using it, but professionally it's not an option. For work, I have to run at least the screens my DAW is on in 4k resolution to be able to zoom into screen recorded content without losing detail. Plus, most software looks better running at 4k and being scaled to 200% size rather than running in 1080p directly. It's a thing I can rely on even if stuff is... a little on the smaller side. If you can blow it up to 2x for basically free when you are delivering in crisp 1080p 60 fps, that's simply a requirement.

So while it's undeniable that this may help, this has also been the band aid that has commonly been suggested at least as far back as 2015 on the old forums and I don't think it was super useful advice back then either but now in 2022 technology simply has progressed to a point where this is too much of an ask, I mean imagine having to get a low resolution external screen for your laptop because it comes with a 1440p internal screen as the minimum option- I'd still much prefer an actual solution.

Having already started another thread on this topic before finding this one, I'll add my voice to this one.

Happy to read that. But still not holding my breath.

+1 from me too. In fact, I feel the whole Kontakt gui needs a bit of a redesign....

Having a scalable interface would almost certainly get me to buy a much more complete version of Komplete. Working in the box seems to be going well for me, but I hate staring at that Kontakt interface, and so I avoid using it as much as possible. Come on NI, you can do it!

I bought Kontakt Komplete 9 back in 2014 when all I had was a 1080p monitor, so it was fine. But I didn't use it for years until recently and it's downright pathetic. It hurts my eyes. I created a long post with lots of screenshots but it was closed because there's already this thread, but if you want to see how bad the Kontakt GUI is, here's the link: https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/5831/whats-the-deal-with-the-tiny-gui

This company is heading for bankruptcy soon if they don't do anything about this. This is a great time in history to make music with a computer and a MIDI keyboard from home, and most people don't have 1080p displays anymore. I recently bought the Hollywood Orchestra from Eastwest and other products from them and Spitfire because they have scalable HiDPI GUIs that don't kill my eyes. Initially I was going to buy Symphobia 1 and 2, but when I realized that they rely on Kontakt I said no way. And I barely touch anything NI anymore. That Komplete Kontrol thing is a joke, you open it and you can only see 3 patches, like someone above said. It totally defeats the purpose of what it wants to be, a place where you can see all your instruments. At least with Kontakt you can resize the window vertically, with KK you can't. It's like they made it terrible on purpose.

So if NI is happy losing customers because they won't do what it takes to bring their GUI to current times, so be it.