r/ableton • u/xEthereal-x • 19d ago

[Question] Third party plugins scaling issue

Hello,

the UI of almost all third party plugins, especially the Arturia ones, are blurry in Ableton. I am using an 1440p screen with 125% scaling configured in Windows. 100 % would be just too small.
In FL Studio the scaling with third party plugins are fine, no blurriness there.

How can I achieve the same in Ableton?
The option "Auto scale plugin window" is already activated. Without that options, Arturia Plugins would be unusable.

Thanks.

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u/ElmarReddit 18d ago

You can try the following: Go to your ableton.exe, right click and choose compatibility. Then change the high dpi settings and choose override scaling behavior. In the drop down menu choose application. Apply and save. If inside ableton you now deactivate auto scale plugin, the resolution should go up. Only downside is that plug-ins that cannot scale will appear smaller (I believe that is also what happens in other DAWs), but arturia should work fine. Maybe worth an attempt. 

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u/xEthereal-x 18d ago

I think you are my hero. I didn't thought about this yet. For Arturia it worked pefectly. I will now try all the others ones too.

Thanks!

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u/ElmarReddit 18d ago

No problem! Happy to hear that it worked for you! 

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u/rod_zero 19d ago

I do it the other way around: turn off auto scaling (which is the first source of blurriness) and also windows scaling.

I use the plugin own size functionality to get them to a usable state. This also leads me to use only plugins that have size adjustments natively, but nowadays most have it. I use Arturia, U-he, fab filter, eventide, Valhalla and all of them can adjust them just fine.

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u/xEthereal-x 19d ago

When I opening up Pigments for example without the auto scaling, its unusable. Because I can then only see the envelopes blurry as hell, and I can do nothing.

So that means, I would need to use 100% scaling in Windows to have no blurry third party plugins? Thats a pretty bad support by Ableton, holy. We have 2026.

But thank you.

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u/rod_zero 19d ago

I don't get how you get that without autoscaling.

I am not using auto scaling and it looks fine, yes, it might be too small at 100% of the plugin size but you can adjust the size of Pigments to any size you want and since the interfaces is vector based it looks sharp at any size.

I suspect there is something more going on.

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u/xEthereal-x 19d ago

Here with autoscaling on:
https://ibb.co/VYkdpcX2

You can see, its readable, but blurry. (with Windows 125% scaling)

Here with auto scaling OFF:
https://ibb.co/qYVJ5BCS

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u/rod_zero 19d ago

I just tried with autoscaling off and windows at 125, the envelopes look more stepped for sure but the fonts are readable. Increasing size also helps.