Question

Studio One (on Windows) currently follows OS scaling factor which is nice, but most other DAWs - Bitwig, Live, Cubase, even Reason now - allow to set separate scaling for DAW itself, so e.g. I can run Windows at 125%, but DAW is at 100%. That's not possible in Studio One currently. One can disable high-DPI support and set Windows compatibility options to not scale Studio One automatically, but then many plugins have problem and user can't anymore decide if they should be scaled or not - in practice this "workaround" makes it unusable.

Answer 1

I agree with this so much and I don't know why no one is voting for this. It makes no sense to have a scaling setting that depends on Windows, it's such a nightmare!

Answer 2

Just to add to this topic, that recently I moved from Studio One to Cubase after almost 10 years with the former. And the last straw was exactly this, that I can't scale the UI, while in Cubase I can (I'm using additional +50 scaling, I'm in my 40s, so, you know...).

Small unexpected thing to decide in which DAW to produce music, but here we are.

After spending a few weeks in Cubase and then loading Studio One, I was asking myself how I could even work there?

Will I return to Studio One, if/when UI scaling is implemented? Maybe. But I certainly won't until it's done.