I've tried different Kontakt versions and is always the same: a big oversized Kontakt UI that is cut off when you load some libraries. This only occurs as VST in cubase, not in Standalone version. Am I the only one? Because I didnt see any other similar resizing issues here either other places. And no solutions either.

Thank you for your help in advance

 

Last edited: Mar 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM

I've never had that issue and have used all the Kontakts from v5 to v8 (R2R, bobdule and Portable) in Cubase for a long time and looks like yours has a strange big border grey box around the actual Kontakt (GUI) and have never seen that ever before.
Where did you find the option for Cubase to resize the plugin? Because for me this one does not offer that option, although most others do. (You do not want Cubase to resize this plugin)
Here's how it looks with latest Kontakt 8 Portable and the latest Cubase 14 Pro:

Resize is now done in the actual Kontakt (GUI) or/and dragging the right bottom corner

 

In v6.8, it's always about 1/3 the size of the DAW screen in Logic when you first open it. The icon 2 to the right of the gear icon (settings) switches it from rack view to minimized view. Did they get rid of that option? Is this all a result of your "Portable" version?

You also have a lot of empty grey space bordering Kontakt in the image, with it launched inside a floating window like that. About 1/3 of its width is a waste of real estate. That also means you won't even get a benefit out of using multiple instances of Kontakt with a lower number of instruments loaded into them.

 

Now you mention it I do remember an issue with K6 with half the display missing but K5, K7, K8 have all been OK... it is strange that big border around it and definately never seen that before

 

I've been testing and, while every instance has that grey empty space, not every one is cutted off. It looks like some libraries are cut off and some others not.
Scarbee Classic, for example, has full view:

Dragging the right botton corner its impossible when the library view is cut out, as you can check in second screenshot I shared in the first comment. And, in libraries with full view, like that Scarbee keys, the dragging option doesn't work as expected. It just let me make it a little higher and don't let me alter the width...

On the other hand, the resize/zoom option inside view Kontakt panel make this: ((I just want to cry))

Sorry for the Spanish, but I just right click the grey space and it's the last option.


I'm using the Kontakt 8 Portable 2.1 and Cubase 12 Pro. In the past years I have used Cubase 5 and 8 with several versions of Kontakt 5 and 6, and this never happened to me before. Now I was trying to make music again after a while and this annoying weird thing happens. I've not seen that grey empty space bordering too, in any of my researches about the issue. Only saw here another case of kontakt just getting cut off on the botton key zone because bad sizing too, but no grey extra bordering

Currently I'm working on a laptop with 1920x1080 resolution, with 125% rescaled (100% would be hard to read) recommended by Windows. Ah, and it's Windows 11.

 

I have seen that 2 or 3 times too recently with K8. But closing and opening the GUI always fixed it. If it happened it was always after loading a program in an empty Kontakt. Not 100% sure if this was standalone Kontakt or in Cubase 14 (or maybe both).

 

Some users mention a similar issue here with Cubase 12 and says to try click the QC top right a couple of times.

Spoiler: Cubase 12 GUI Issues

https://forums.steinberg.net/t/cubase-12-0-20-third-party-vst-plugin-gui-display-issues/783571/6

Also make sure you have latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable.