managing the staggering amount of plug ins

a1studmuffin · Post by **a1studmuffin** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:31 am

Well I just spent about an hour going through all my plugins and rearranging them, it's made a huge difference. I've set up the following categories:

Analysers
Beat Manglers
Beat Replacers
De-essers
Delays
Distortion
Dynamics - Compressors + Expanders
Dynamics - Envelope Followers
Dynamics - Gates
Dynamics - Limiters + Clippers
Dynamics - Transient Shapers
EQ
Filters - Comb
Filters - Formant
Filters - Resonant
Mastering Tools
Pitch Correction
Pitch Shifters
Reverbs
Samplers
Signal Splitters
Stereo Tools
Synths
Utilities
Vocoders
Weird FX

So much clearer, especially for badly named plugins.

spkey · Post by **spkey** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:37 am

There is this new vst I saw recently for free which organises your library of banks and presets into categories such as "pads", "bass", "percussion" and so on. Choosing one selects the right vst and loads the corresponding sound. I don't remember how its called.

panners · Post by **panners** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:41 pm

Or you could not bother sorting them and when your looking for something just search for them. it much handier. you dont even have to type the whole name

a1studmuffin · Post by **a1studmuffin** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:45 am

Sorting them only takes an hour or two, and once it's done you'll really appreciate it.

Searching is a quick fix sure, but the hidden benefit of sorting them by category is that when you're actually producing and think "I need a vocoder", instead of just using whatever vocoder plugin you can remember the name of, you can open up the Vocoder folder, try out one, and if it doesn't give you what you're after, you've got a few others to choose from right in front of you. Often plugins are really badly named, and this solves that problem - now you'll actually start getting use out of plugins with uninformative names like Crazy Ivan, mobilohm etc.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:53 am

I like this organisational method:

Have less vsts.

seriously though, it looks like I may need to get into some sorting soon, too - we just got the fantastic ohm force bundle... some mean stuff

Anyways, have vsts, will blog.

blinkeye · Post by **blinkeye** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:47 pm

SMonk wrote:
Meef Chaloin wrote:i dont understand why you cant do it with AUs, what's hard about creating a folder & putting a file in it?
Obviously you can move your AU files about as much as you want to. Unfortunately, the actual position of the files on your hard disk has no connection with where it ends up in browser in the host. It's always "hard-wired" to be categorized by manufacturer. Unfortunately.

Can't you use shortcut aliases for AU plugins?

Geezus · Post by **Geezus** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:50 pm

ummm...ableton's "search" function in the plugin tab. all I need