Re: Update LIVE 9 for RETINA !!!
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 4:44 pm
in beta now
Ableton Beta with Retina support available I may have just eaten my earlier post!!fargo100 wrote:vrprorg wrote:As much as I would also love to see "proper" Retina support, we should not forget that Apple's line of MacBooks is still not entirely Retina-equipped. In other words, it takes some time before the market is somewhat saturated with a critical mass of screens that support high resolutions - either on Macs or on Windows machines. So, up until rather recently, I guess it was just not "urgent" enough. I guess, with the next update run on Apple's MacBook line, we'll see something happening with Live, too.
Sadly, unlike Ableton and NI most developers have (almost 3 years ago for some developers) released a Non-Retina/Retina app with no problems.. they work on both machines Retina and Standard. It's just most of the graphics have a @X2.png or whatever is used as well as the normal graphic for the standard screen machines.. The machine works out which graphic to run and hey presto!!
It's not rocket science it's just laziness and as for waiting for the PC to release some version of whatever it is... I don't believe that either.
If they just did it now everyones happy and when the PC catches up then great!! It's already done..!!
You mean compared to a 72 dpi display?nexus01 wrote:graphics looks good, but the fonts still looks pretty bad...
Please try out the beta and report back to the forum about this. Many people on Windows are on high resolution displays. Technically, a lot of what apps do does depend on the operating system. To what extension that is true for Live I'm not sure. I know Logic seemed to have their own graphics subroutines (Logic graphics was very instantaneous in updating even when computers were really slow, a loooong time ago), but I never noticed something special about Live concerning graphics.Ronin1973 wrote:I hope this includes high-resolution Windows support as well. I'm running at 3440x1440 (or whatever the native LG 34UM95 resolution is). The increase in Ableton real-estate is awesome, but not everything scales well or even at all at high resolutions.
The fonts on the spectrum analyser are still blocky as I guess that is rendered differently.nexus01 wrote:graphics looks good, but the fonts still looks pretty bad...
Very well explained, sir. Thank you for doing that better that I'd have explained it.Ilmostro wrote:The fonts on the spectrum analyser are still blocky as I guess that is rendered differently.nexus01 wrote:graphics looks good, but the fonts still looks pretty bad...
The rest of the fonts look fine - much better than before.
According to the beta release notes this should not have any affect on Windows or non Retina Macs. I would have though the Windows version would look sharp on a HiDPI display, but just have small fonts at 100% setting? This would make sense to me, as Apples solution to HiDPI displays is to tell the application that it is running on a lower resolution, but actually render the system GUI at the High DPI.
It's hard to explain but basically a 15 in Macbook with Retina display has a physical screen size of 2880 x 1800, but the application 'thinks' the display is actually 1440 x 900. This is why apps that are not aware of Retina displays look crap - because they are actually rendering at 1440 x 900!
In the other 'scaled - more space' modes, for example 1920 x 1200, OS X will render the entire screen at 4x the pixels (2x V x H) so that means the operating system has to draw a 3840 x 2400 image and than this is resampled using antialiasing into the physical resolution.
As far as I can tell, Live renders its own GUI not using the system API's or libraries. So Ableton have had to force Live to render at a native 2880 x 1800 screen resolution. I've not tested the other scaled modes properly.
I could be wrong about that, but I would explain why it wasn't a simple matter to fix as you might think. For what it's worth Adobe Photoshop Elements has only just got Retina support in the up coming Elements 13 release, so Ableton are no worse than Abobe!
At any rate - I'm grateful that they have released a Retina fix.
Thank You Ableton!
Or set the image as your desktop wallpaper fit to the screen, then load Live and minimize it and maximize it to compare and contrast. The difference is very significant.Ilmostro wrote:NOTE:
You should down load the image files at full quality from Flickr and view full screen in OS X Preview at 'zoom to fit screen' rather than '1:1 Actual size'.
Isn't the easiest way to register at ableton.centercode.com and download the 9.1.6 beta?jbw wrote:Or set the image as your desktop wallpaper fit to the screen, then load Live and minimize it and maximize it to compare and contrast. The difference is very significant.Ilmostro wrote:NOTE:
You should down load the image files at full quality from Flickr and view full screen in OS X Preview at 'zoom to fit screen' rather than '1:1 Actual size'.