Let us alias plugin names

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hvg
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Let us alias plugin names

Post by hvg » Mon Jun 18, 2018 4:48 pm

With 10 we are able to assign colours to our VSTs, great!

If you can associate a color, wouldn't it be neat if you could associate a different *name* as well? Right now I'm looking at my plugins and it's a mess:

JUPITER-8
D-50.x64
Synth1 VST64
DX7 V
...

If I could right click on the names and choose "rename" (it would just change the displayed name, not rename the actual file) I could have a nice list that looked like

Roland Jupiter-8
Roland D-50
Yamaha DX7
Synth1 Virtual Analog

What do you think?
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H20nly
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Re: Let us alias plugin names

Post by H20nly » Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:07 pm

sounds like a good idea to me. you could also organize them by type or function if that was an option.
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Re: Let us alias plugin names

Post by H20nly » Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:16 pm

actually... after thinking about it... you can probably do this now. Live has to be pulling that name from somewhere... which implies if you change it at the source, where it is being pulled from, you could call the plugin anything.

i'm not home now or i'd have a look, but i bet this is something you could make happen... way before Ableton decide to make it easy or not.

seems like the VST folder would be the most obvious first place to look.
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dvdpck
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Re: Let us alias plugin names

Post by dvdpck » Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:55 am

You can go to your VST folder and rename your vsts .dll files to anything that you want and they will still work and show up in the list accordingly.
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Re: Let us alias plugin names

Post by Pitch Black » Wed Jun 20, 2018 1:01 am

dvdpck wrote:You can go to your VST folder and rename your vsts .dll files to anything that you want and they will still work and show up in the list accordingly.
Excellent! I look forward to deploying my BigFatHairyBallzerator in upcoming productions! :wink:
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Re: Let us alias plugin names

Post by Tarekith » Wed Jun 20, 2018 1:04 am

Supreme Masterator will be my new go to for anything on the master channel :)
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hvg
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Re: Let us alias plugin names

Post by hvg » Tue Jun 26, 2018 8:06 pm

Yeah renaming the actual files should work as well, but I'm too scared how it will affect older projects, activation, and future updates of the plugins. Maybe there's no issue but I rather not touch the files if I could avoid it.
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Re: Let us alias plugin names

Post by H20nly » Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:02 am

hvg wrote:Yeah renaming the actual files should work as well, but I'm too scared how it will affect older projects, activation, and future updates of the plugins. Maybe there's no issue but I rather not touch the files if I could avoid it.
those .dll files that are essentially VSTs are often small... can you just copy, rename the old one, then paste?

that should give you wonkyVST.dll and MrWonkyVSTtoYouSir.dll and you'll have the best of both worlds to use in legacy and/or new projects.

or.. wonkyVST.exe and MrWonkyVSTtoYouSir.exe
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Re: Let us alias plugin names

Post by jestermgee » Sun Jul 01, 2018 10:23 pm

You can also just wrap the VST in an Instrument Rack along with your mappings and save it with whatever name you like then just pull it from your user library instead of plugins. That way you can create a folder structure for the different synth types, especially good when it comes to FX
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