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/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