@bbelius said:
Most of the times you have to rewrite the entire UI and this is time-consuming and expensive.
If I remember correctly, VST 2.x has a lot of restrictions regarding UI and scaling. This adds a lot of additional problems. (Btw: The new Synchron Player has UI scaling)
In Windows 10 you have to scale everything. Maybe they will implement single App scaling in a future update.
Quite frankly, these companies are raking in the money. Im not promoting East West here (although, if you are a person like me on a tight budget, they have a deal that cant be beat - $30 monthly gets you access to everything they have), just go to their order page for cloud composer. Every time someone purchases a monthly plan, it pops up in the corner. Spend 5 minutes there and you'll see a dozen people or more subscribe within a 5 minute time frame. Multiply that across a day, that is alot of money.
Im not asking for miracles. Vienna only has what, six software applications, two of which, I dont believe even has a UI by itself, the UI is built in to Vienna Instruments (MirX and their effects plugin suite). Vienna Instruments and Ensemble, the main engine of the Vienna suite, doesnt have scaling?
I was reading the Ensemble Pro features (the paid upgrade of ensemble) and it appears the paid version has retina display (whatever that means - some arbitrary marketing term Apple coined up that is defined differently depending on the company), but I dont know if that includes scaling. As a side note, Ensemble Pro's feature set seems kind of weak to warrant charging for, which is likely why they sweetened the deal and locked the epic orchestra behind it, but I digress.
This is not to rag on companies. make money. I am after all, I am a red blooded American capitalist. I just find myself not writing music as much as I would like to because quite frankly, it gtives me a headache trying to read and navigate these UI's. By the way, I have nearly perfect vision, I am not saying this as someone who is nearly blind.
Because I am not writing as much as I would like to, that results in spending much less money on Vienna products, and I know I cant be the only one who feels this way.
How hard would it be to redo Instruments and Ensemble Pro? Instruments has two pages - basic and advanced view, and even then, the UI doesnt change all that much (the matrices and piano consume the majority of screen real estate). Ensemble has a mixer and Instruments is rendered inside of Ensemble, hence, fix Instruments and much of the work for Ensemble should already be done.
As another side note, Im not buying Synchron any time soon. Hell, I can barely afford to purchase the little Special Edition packages every once in awhile (full time student, full time nearly minimum wage job - hence the reason Im going to school). I only recently completed the SE core, will probably start on the pluses later. Compound that with health issues (just had open heart surgery, now on the transplant list awaiting a new heart - hurray defective body parts), and you start to get the idea - money is tight for me right now. I write music because I enjoy it. I dont make any money from it. It is merely a very expensive, overpriced hobby.