Scott E said
a post on this forum yesterday by 'kkuehl' linked to a blogpost detailing the manifest file solution for Windows users;
http://www.toontrack.com/forum.....x/#p161875
again, credit goes to OP, 'kkuehl' for finding it:
http://www.danantonielli.com/a.....plays-fix/
"Have the app tell Windows that it is not DPI aware and let it scale everything properly. (Granted, this is not the ideal solution, but it does make the apps usable again)"
AND this is the point! SD sounds great with an unusable interface from the past decade. Other manufactures like fxpansion are still in the 3th generation since years! This is not acceptable. And it's not only the enlarge size windows problem. There are so many things to bring SD up to date. How long shout we wait for the next SD generation? Please dear Toontrack team make it possible right now! For example with a modern SD App it should be unnecessary to use a rudimentary SOLO host program with ugly windows size and limited functionality for timely E-Drum using. Again: We are living in 2016 and not any more in the 90th with boring synthesizer drum modules. Did I say Midi? Just another example for boring and antique solutions. What to hell is here going on?
Greats
Trommeltotti
Pardon me but,...didn't anyone think of this going in? Are the monitors in the TT lab so big that it was unnoticed? Good thing mine is huge, but if I had a standard size or was using a laptop I'd be #$^&ed! Really. Amazing, excellent product. So user friendly, but..............COME ON!
Sorry to keep posting on this thread, but I, too am disappointed that the interface is not resizable or at least scalable. I haven't been using it long and am already getting frustrated with the lack of ability to use the screen real-estate I have, as well as make this thing big enough to see without a magnifying glass. 🙁
The Swedes are known for their incredible eyesight.
Eat more Lutfisk!
Just kidding.
It really is a problem with today's modern screens.
the manifest hack does not fix the plugin, so that's smoke'n'mirrors.
Same for "solutions" like dumbing down screen resolution, magnifier apps and what not.
how about finally investing some good oldfashioned development time after 8.5 years (!!!) of cashing in on your ex-flagship product that's going the way of the Dodo ?
when will you guys realize that in a real world studio, screens are placed according to room acoustics, on average 1m or thereabouts away ?
(read my post from 2013 in this thread if you need more details)
rubbing your nose on a single screen might cut it for programmers or bedroom warriors, certainly not in a studio.
check out this pic for a real headscratcher !
just imagine sitting there working ...
oh well, you know we're right !
no need to admit it, fixing it would do nicely.
Rhino
profirhino said
the manifest hack does not fix the plugin, so that's smoke'n'mirrors.
Same for "solutions" like dumbing down screen resolution, magnifier apps and what not.
how about finally investing some good oldfashioned development time after 8.5 years (!!!) of cashing in on your ex-flagship product that's going the way of the Dodo ?when will you guys realize that in a real world studio, screens are placed according to room acoustics, on average 1m or thereabouts away ?
(read my post from 2013 in this thread if you need more details)
rubbing your nose on a single screen might cut it for programmers or bedroom warriors, certainly not in a studio.
check out this pic for a real headscratcher !
just imagine sitting there working ...oh well, you know we're right !
no need to admit it, fixing it would do nicely.
Rhino
With speakers that far apart, you'd have to be sitting in the middle is the room with 6' long arms to reach the mouse and keyboard. 😉
But, I know what you mean.
Scott said
With speakers that far apart, you'd have to be sitting in the middle is the room with 6' long arms to reach the mouse and keyboard. 😉
But, I know what you mean.
thanks for replying, Scott !
the absurd pic shows the placement dilemma perfectly.
either lose screens 1 & 3, move the speakers towards the middle and you have the typical bedroom setup with all its limitations.
sit down and "produce".
or, you might actually need 2 screens at least to work properly - be prepared to move your seat, keyboard, controllers, whatever back by 1 - 1.5m, can't angle the speakers too much either, in order to keep a halfway sane stereo image.
while all this is certainly not TT's fault, this is the environment your products get used in, if we're talking (semi-)pro studios.
I had special medical glasses made, like reading glasses optimized for a distance of 1.2m, and only use old school 1920x1200 @ 26"x2 between the speakers (+ a 3rd one on the side), I can work without excessive eye strain for hours, but Superior's details just disappear in blurry guesswork. 
come on, would it really be so hard to compile a parallel version with twice the width and height and appropriately scaled elements ?
nobody needs trendy vector shenanigans, nobody even needs switching, a simple SuperiorSize.dll would do ...
but we definitely need to see what we are doing !
peace,
Rhino
profirhino said
thanks for replying, Scott !
the absurd pic shows the placement dilemma perfectly.
either lose screens 1 & 3, move the speakers towards the middle and you have the typical bedroom setup with all its limitations.
sit down and "produce".or, you might actually need 2 screens at least to work properly - be prepared to move your seat, keyboard, controllers, whatever back by 1 - 1.5m, can't angle the speakers too much either, in order to keep a halfway sane stereo image.
while all this is certainly not TT's fault, this is the environment your products get used in, if we're talking (semi-)pro studios.
I had special medical glasses made, like reading glasses optimized for a distance of 1.2m, and only use old school 1920x1200 @ 26"x2 between the speakers (+ a 3rd one on the side), I can work without excessive eye strain for hours, but Superior's details just disappear in blurry guesswork.come on, would it really be so hard to compile a parallel version with twice the width and height and appropriately scaled elements ?
nobody needs trendy vector shenanigans, nobody even needs switching, a simple SuperiorSize.dll would do ...
but we definitely need to see what we are doing !peace,
Rhino
Well, I'm not a programmer so I don't know how easy or hard it is to make the size adjustable. But, Toontrack listens to its customers and have taken notes on all suggestions. It may not seem like they are listening but they are.
The time it is taking may be some indication just how much of a rewrite of code it is to implement.
Just bought SD2 and on my Alienware with 3200x1800 pixels I CANNOT read the avatar. I feel this product is a con. Shameful implementation. I want my money back asap. Also the latency through the ASIO driver straight to TD30 is sh!t.
Johan_38 said
Just bought SD2 and on my Alienware with 3200x1800 pixels I CANNOT read the avatar. I feel this product is a con. Shameful implementation. I want my money back asap. Also the latency through the ASIO driver straight to TD30 is sh!t.
While I certainly won't defend the UI size, to be fair, the latency is not Superior's fault.
It's been running glitch free here @ 64 samples ever since it came out in the Pleistocene or thereabouts.
Obviously, with lots of other tracks running latency needs to be set a notch or two higher.
various PCs, RME PCIe, currently W7/64, C9, S1v.3.3.
Check your driver configuration ...
cheers,
Rhino
Martin said
Frequently requested, but rather difficult to implement. No plans of adding this feature anytime soon, I'm afraid.
So, this was the state of play at post #2 in January 2012. Four years on (enough time to organise another Olympics / World Cup etc, and - what - about half the time it took NASA to develop the Apollo programme and get Armstrong & Aldrin on the moon!) are there any developments? It seems such a basic element and I'm amazed it's missing.
a post on this forum yesterday by 'kkuehl' linked to a blogpost detailing the manifest file solution for Windows users;
http://www.toontrack.com/forum.....x/#p161875
Same here with Firefox and Google Chrome:
"Access denied - you do not have permission to view this page"
Anyway: We need immediately a new SD stand alone generation with modern GUI and touchable screens and more accurate E-Drum functionality.
Thank you very much with best regards
Trommeltotti
Scott E said
a post on this forum yesterday by 'kkuehl' linked to a blogpost detailing the manifest file solution for Windows users;
http://www.toontrack.com/forum.....x/#p161875
again, credit goes to OP, 'kkuehl' for finding it:
http://www.danantonielli.com/a.....plays-fix/
"Have the app tell Windows that it is not DPI aware and let it scale everything properly. (Granted, this is not the ideal solution, but it does make the apps usable again)"
AND this is the point! SD sounds great with an unusable interface from the past decade. Other manufactures like fxpansion are still in the 3th generation since years! This is not acceptable. And it's not only the enlarge size windows problem. There are so many things to bring SD up to date. How long shout we wait for the next SD generation? Please dear Toontrack team make it possible right now! For example with a modern SD App it should be unnecessary to use a rudimentary SOLO host program with ugly windows size and limited functionality for timely E-Drum using. Again: We are living in 2016 and not any more in the 90th with boring synthesizer drum modules. Did I say Midi? Just another example for boring and antique solutions. What to hell is here going on?
Greats
Trommeltotti
Pardon me but,...didn't anyone think of this going in? Are the monitors in the TT lab so big that it was unnoticed? Good thing mine is huge, but if I had a standard size or was using a laptop I'd be #$^&ed! Really. Amazing, excellent product. So user friendly, but..............COME ON!
Sorry to keep posting on this thread, but I, too am disappointed that the interface is not resizable or at least scalable. I haven't been using it long and am already getting frustrated with the lack of ability to use the screen real-estate I have, as well as make this thing big enough to see without a magnifying glass. 🙁
The Swedes are known for their incredible eyesight.
Eat more Lutfisk!
Just kidding.
It really is a problem with today's modern screens.
the manifest hack does not fix the plugin, so that's smoke'n'mirrors.
Same for "solutions" like dumbing down screen resolution, magnifier apps and what not.
how about finally investing some good oldfashioned development time after 8.5 years (!!!) of cashing in on your ex-flagship product that's going the way of the Dodo ?
when will you guys realize that in a real world studio, screens are placed according to room acoustics, on average 1m or thereabouts away ?
(read my post from 2013 in this thread if you need more details)
rubbing your nose on a single screen might cut it for programmers or bedroom warriors, certainly not in a studio.
check out this pic for a real headscratcher !
just imagine sitting there working ...
oh well, you know we're right !
no need to admit it, fixing it would do nicely.
Rhino