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Old 08-23-2011, 08:03 AM   #41
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I concur, and furthermore:

There should be a default made to allow all VST's to be shown without having to (redundantly) click the folder (or default to another folder if one wishes). While I don't think about it anymore - it's kind of ridiculously silly to have to make 2 mouse clicks and THEN get to your VST folder.

The FX menuing really needs an overhaul in Reaper - it really looks really Windows 3.1, and a lot of wasted space.

/ another Silly Nitpick: the sideways scroll requires two clicks to see an entire new column of VST's. Click once, it just moves 1 of two columns over - again, like the redundant "VST" label, it's redundantly cumbersome. It should scroll two columns over - two NEW columns, not just one.
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Old 09-07-2011, 12:09 AM   #42
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Also, "v4 needs an FX browser overhaul!" bump!
+1 on both counts..
The current state of the plugin (and media) browser irks the crap out of me every time I use Reaper. It's one of the main reasons I can't fully commit to Reaper as my main DAW. The devs could really learn a thing or two from Studio One's browser. IMO, it's the best one I've seen in any DAW.
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Old 11-12-2011, 09:53 PM   #43
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Bumping as after doing a lot of audio edits today this is frustrating me constantly having the same thing at the front of many plugins.


Please might gods of Cockos, make this an option so people can hide that if they wish.
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Old 11-12-2011, 11:12 PM   #44
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Old 02-23-2012, 09:25 AM   #45
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+1 for this, I don't see the need to have any text but the plugin name itself, no developer/company info either, it's so untidy and annoying.

Can't believe it's over 2 years since someone asked for this.
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Old 03-25-2012, 11:06 AM   #46
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BUMP since nobody else has in a few weeks.

This IS one of those nitpicky things, but it WOULD be nice to see or rather NOT see the VST VSTi etc etc....
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Old 01-29-2013, 05:32 PM   #47
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why does anybody need to know whether their plugin is a vst or vsti or dxi or dx or js?

i would assume most people know what they paid for or what plugin they are using based on its name not on how it was programmed.
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Old 05-01-2013, 07:30 PM   #48
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Yeah, that would look better.
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Old 05-02-2013, 12:28 AM   #49
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Just re-read this thread.

Did nobody stop to think that when you hit "insert virtual instrument in new track" it IS useful to know that you have DXi and VSTi and can tell which is which? This is just one example of when it IS useful to be able to differentiate between the various sorts of plugs.
Not wishing to detract from the FR etc., but just noting that there probably needs to be a level of sophistication in the "new" filtering system as requested.
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Old 05-02-2013, 12:37 AM   #50
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Just re-read this thread.

Did nobody stop to think that when you hit "insert virtual instrument in new track" it IS useful to know that you have DXi and VSTi and can tell which is which? This is just one example of when it IS useful to be able to differentiate between the various sorts of plugs.
Of course. Just make it optional. 99% of the users don't use DXi I guess (so for those it would be nice to have).
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Old 06-30-2013, 01:51 AM   #51
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Bump time!


How hard can it be to make this optional?!
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Old 06-30-2013, 09:26 AM   #52
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Just voted. You make a convincing case.
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Old 06-30-2013, 09:27 AM   #53
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Yeah, there has to be a toggle or preference. Even a tickbox in inside the fx browser, I don't care. It is very distracting at times.
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Old 07-01-2013, 06:41 AM   #54
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Like a lot of the FR's that pop up from time to time, I wasn't really aware that this annoyed me until it was mentioned. But it's true. I don't care if it's a VST or a DX or whatever, as long as it shows up on a track or in an FX chain when I click it. So, yep, the naming structure is quite redundant..

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Old 07-01-2013, 06:49 AM   #55
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why does anybody need to know whether their plugin is a vst or vsti or dxi or dx or js?

i would assume most people know what they paid for or what plugin they are using based on its name not on how it was programmed.
some plugins have vst and vsti versions but otherwise have the same names.
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Old 07-01-2013, 06:58 AM   #56
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some plugins have vst and vsti versions but otherwise have the same names.
Like what? I have a few programs that are standalone as well as VST, but I have nothing that is both a VST plugin and a VST instrument. That's interesting to me for some reason, but then again, I'm still on my first cup of coffee

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Old 07-01-2013, 07:14 AM   #57
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Old 07-01-2013, 02:40 PM   #58
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....and several others.

Very confusing if you also have DX and VST versions of plugs with the same name, as I have.

This one "small" FR would help clean up stuff very well.
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Old 07-01-2013, 03:00 PM   #59
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DX is very much dead. At least personally I don't know of anyone who's even using those plugins.

But in any case, as far as NI plugins is concerned, their effect plugins always have "fx" in the DLL name. And it's not a problem to name them as such even if Reaper doesn't pick up the plugin name tag correctly.
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Old 07-01-2013, 03:23 PM   #60
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not in the plugin name, however.
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Old 07-01-2013, 03:31 PM   #61
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Right. And that's why you can rename the plugin yourself if necessary. It's much better to add (fx) or something at the end of the name manually, than to have forced "VSTi:" or "VST:" in FRONT of the name which you cannot remove and which disables you from jumping between heaps of plugins just by typing its first letter (this is different from using the filter).
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Old 07-01-2013, 03:45 PM   #62
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well that's subjective. Seems for some people this might be an annoyance, for others, not so much...

doesn't bother me too much either way.
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Old 07-01-2013, 04:04 PM   #63
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Hence, optional.
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Old 07-02-2013, 02:28 AM   #64
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While your at it, how about an option one column FX browser?
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Old 07-02-2013, 03:56 AM   #65
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That one's already possible but it looks a bit worse because it has this header on top. Right-click in the empty area of FX browser and enable "Show default VST presets".
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Old 07-02-2013, 05:38 AM   #66
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How about using different themeable text color and/or text background color for each FX type (VST, VSTi, DX, JS, Chain, etc.)?

Those colors could be indicated also in browser's "tree menu". So, it would be easy to remember which color is assigned to each type.

Then there would be no need to add the type headers like 'VSTi:' and still you would know the types. And option to show/hide those headers would not be needed.

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Old 07-02-2013, 11:23 AM   #67
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A very fine idea, jnif. I'd be more for background color rather than text color, personally.
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Old 07-15-2013, 06:27 AM   #68
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You Windows guys are lucky. It's even a much bigger mess when it comes to AU plug-ins.

First of all, unlike VST plug-ins, they show the manufacturer name in front of the plug-in name, which is not useful at all.

Second, alphanumeric sorting does not work at all for AU(i) plug-ins (the order seems to be related to the chronological order of installing / validation or something like that), so the list becomes a complete mess.

Third, newly installed AU plug-ins never show up in the "New" category - which is thus broken for its purported usage.

And to stay with the theme of this thread, some pictures:





This is what I used in a Pure data patch for use with REAPER's OSC Control Surface feature, which supports sending plug-in names. Of course, when displaying things like effect names on a remote controller, there are often limits on how much characters one can put on a physical display, so every character counts.
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O.o;


I can manage Reaktor, but this is fucked up, man.
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I can manage Reaktor, but this is fucked up, man.
Hehe... I think I could build something similar in REAKTOR as well, as it is conceptually somewhat similar to Pd (high level programming platform using graphical patching, capable of audio, MIDI and OSC) and it would perhaps look slightly prettier (depending on your taste of GUIs), but would probably be just about as complex. The point would remain the same: we should not need such ugly hacks in the first place.

Btw, that does give me an idea: I should try to make a REAKTOR patch that communicates with REAPER via OSC and check out how it compares - I don't have much love for Pd's features to create a custom GUI; REAKTOR may be a more comfortable platform for that stuff. The main reason for me using Pd for these things is that it's open/free software and runs pretty much on every platform.
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Old 08-13-2013, 04:58 PM   #71
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Redundancy is retarded.
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Old 01-06-2014, 02:53 PM   #72
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I would also like to have an option to hide the prefix.
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Old 04-07-2014, 06:04 AM   #73
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i trust that things are the way they are in reaper for the sake of a higher good.
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Bumpity bump, this would clean that window up so much. By default I think any of the filtered lists on the left should result in this, except for custom folders + the 'all plugins' list, which should be controlled by a simple option 'Show Plugin format' in the FX window Options list. So simple, but makes a huge impact!
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slightly off topic, but if the native cockos plugins are indeed VSTs, where are the dll files? I don't find any in the resource folder. i was hoping to find the ninjam plugin specifically to try in another daw.
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slightly off topic, but if the native cockos plugins are indeed VSTs, where are the dll files? I don't find any in the resource folder. i was hoping to find the ninjam plugin specifically to try in another daw.
In the main Reaper installation folder - REAPER > Plugins > FX

Never tried them in other DAWs myself - not sure if they would work or not.
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In the main Reaper installation folder - REAPER > Plugins > FX

Never tried them in other DAWs myself - not sure if they would work or not.
Oh right, they would be in the only other place they could be... (why didn't look in there? *shrug*) Thanks, gonna test my theory.
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slightly off topic, but if the native cockos plugins are indeed VSTs, where are the dll files? I don't find any in the resource folder. i was hoping to find the ninjam plugin specifically to try in another daw.
No it wont
What you do is set Reaper up as the ASIO driver via ReaRoute, then just use ninjam in Reaper
Output the other daw to ReaRoute
Reaper is so light you wont even notice you are running two DAWs most of the time

And just to bring it back on topic V5 pres and we still don't have this, gonna need a rewrite to get rid of all these old issues by the time they start getting round to it.
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No it wont.
Reaper is so light you wont even notice you are running two DAWs most of the time
I wonder why, is it a VST or not? This was for jamming with someone else. Reaper's the only DAW I need.
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