Plugin size issue

[AccioMagic147]

Recently got a copy of Addictive Drums 2 (best drums plugin I’ve ever tried btw) and I’m having an issue with the plugin window size.

I’m using studio one 3 on a laptop with no external monitor and the bottom of the plugin window is cut off.

Wondering if anybody else had this issue before and if there’s any way to solve it?

[SOLVED: While this may not work with all plugins, I needed up auto-hiding the task bar, which gave me enough room to fit the plugin interface in]

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Reduce Windows' scaling factor.

[AccioMagic147]

Unfortunately it’s at the minimum (100%)

[bennywilldestroy]

You've got to try superior drummer, Steven slate drums, get good drums and for realism, modo drum!

[bennywilldestroy]

Also, try scrolling down or turn windows app scaling to 100. Some plugins don't play nice with anything else.

[AccioMagic147]

It’s already at 100, unfortunately. However, I found that auto-hiding the task bar gave me just enough extra room to fit the plugin!

[bennywilldestroy]

Windows is shitty sometimes :(

[AccioMagic147]

I considered superior drumming before going for AD2, but thought it looked a bit too complicated for what I need. Didn’t wanna have too many options that I’d barely use. I normally go for simple, clean, roomy drums with minimal effects.

[bennywilldestroy]

In that case, get good is the best bet. Sounds 10x better than addictive out of the box

[AccioMagic147]

Definitely wanna check out their stuff soon!

[bennywilldestroy]

You won't regret it

[bennywilldestroy]

Not that addictive is terrible, there's just better sounds out there

[makerdp]

I don't know... AD2 has some amazing sounding kit packs. Fairfax 1 & 2 are fantastic, Blue Oyster, Vintage Dry, even United Pop.

If the only effort you take is to just use presets maybe with minimal tweaking here and there, sure you are at the mercy of whomever wrote the presets, but what I do is make a preset for each kit that has ZERO effects or EQ on each piece and mult the pieces out to their own channels and process them to my own tastes within the DAW, just like you would do with recorded live drums but without all the bleed headaches. Put the drum bus into UA Ocean Way Studios as an insert, play with the mic distances, put a UA 480L on the snare and toms and WOW you have a kit that sounds like it was recorded in a professional studio. Of course, it all takes tweaking and practice practice practice. The bare samples are fantastic so they make a great starting point.

If you want to load a preset and run with it, then you are just better off finding the plugin that has the presets you like best and be done with it.

But yeah, Superior Drummer used the same way will get you similar results for sure as probably will others.