Kontakt GUI really needs to get bigger soon...

Please, pretty please with sugar on top of it: Make the fonts bigger in Kontakt. I have been doing some extensive editing during the past days with multisampled instruments, and it's getting to a point where it's really annoying to have to sit with my nose almost touching the screen to be able to read some of the text. And it can't be healthy, I expect my face to be glowing in the dark soon... I'm using a 19" monitor at 1280 x 1024, and I have never come across any other application that has been hard to read at this resolution. In fact, a lot of people even use 1600 X 1200 on a 19" to 21" monitor (but I doubt they use Kontakt...)

I know that this has been debated before, but hopefully this feedback will lead to some improvement in this area - and thanks for the option of having larger fonts in tbe browser, great!
I really love working with Kontakt otherwise, it's simply a great instrument. But a couple of hours of editing is close to impossible without a magnification glass. Maybe I should buy one of those that old people with poor eyesight use to read books...

Cheers,
Wirebird

 

I totally agree with wirebird.

 

Are you guys talking about the already increased font size on Kontakt 1.5? It's quite readable now, I'd say...although I never had a problem with the original size; but I'm really used to reading 8pt bitmap fonts being used in a lot of modern design, perhaps.

 

I don't mind if they make the fonts bigger, as long as the fonts are uniform across the board and kontakt looks like a single entity.

The gui as it stands now is a messy letdown. I'm praying the next upgrade/update will surprise us all with a easy-to-read, badass interface and of course, functionality fixes, improvements etc. I have lots of faith in the NI team (the original Kontakt was a breakthrough on many fronts), but I'm still keeping my fingers crossed.

 

No, I'm talking about the fonts in the rest of the GUI and all the small menus. The whole GUI simply needs to be larger. I like the look of it a lot, but most areas are just to small for readability. This mainly concerns the text, but I guess some part would have to be bigger for a larger font size to fit.

There are other aspects that could be improved as well, such as perhaps using a less subtle way of differentiating between modules than light shades of green. Also, the new red mask is rather annoying. But the most important issue IMHO is that the whole thing is simply too small for convenient every-day use.

Cheers,
Wirebird

 

Understood. I've only fiddled with a demo of Kontakt 1.5, so I forgot that some of the text is still the orginial size.

well, this is a very subjective debate. I'm hoping that in the future, it may be possible to switch the font size to the user's liking - that's probably the only way to make all of us happy.

 

I find the GUI impossible to read on my 19" monitors. If I have to do editing I use my notebook. With the resolution set at 1400 x 1050 I actually can distinguish '3's from '5's.

 

OS X Universal Access

If you are on a Mac with OS X check out the Universal Access Preference. It can enlarge any part of the screen. But the enlargement is not anchored so that makes it harder for this type of work. But it's worth checking out. Pretty Cool.

 

Hi!
Would be cool to have a font size thing like IE has.
Or the ability to choose a "relative resolution."

1280x1024 here, and at times it is rough.
Not the worst out there, but could be better.

 

the developers obviously never see kontakt on OSX with a hi rez lcd. On my system with a 1600X1200 display i have to work about 2ft away from the screen - can't we have a proper scalable window like OSX is capable of.

by the way guys thanks for the tip about CDXtract - it converts a damn sight better than kontakt (AND doesn't create a million groups)