rasure Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 As tittle suggests, please add the ability to search for VST plugins. Scrolling through hundreds of plugins is a real time consumer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 5 minutes ago, rasure said: As tittle suggests, please add the ability to search for VST plugins. Scrolling through hundreds of plugins is a real time consumer. You can do this already: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasure Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 Thanks, I was thinking more from the Pro Channel side or FX bin. Seems rather clumsy at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, rasure said: Thanks, I was thinking more from the Pro Channel side or FX bin. Seems rather clumsy at the moment. You're right - the search completely ignores the FX Chains, even though they're listed on that tab. ProChannels aren't as bad as there's not as many of them at the moment. Hopefully this will change though, at which point a search would be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasure Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 Not so much FX chains, but a general search function on that side where you go to insert an fx, all you really have is "recently used" at the top? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 1 minute ago, rasure said: Not so much FX chains, but a general search function on that side where you go to insert an fx, all you really have is "recently used" at the top? I've more or less stopped using insert fx nowadays, in favour of dragging the fx from the browser on the right, for exactly that reason. The other reason is its a pain navigating through nested sub menus on a right-click menu: one slip of the mouse, and you've lost your selection and have to start again. What you could do I guess, is add your fx into a "_favorite" category - note the underscore so it always appears at the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasure Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 7 minutes ago, msmcleod said: The other reason is its a pain navigating through nested sub menus on a right-click menu: one slip of the mouse, and you've lost your selection and have to start again. Yep, know that one all too well lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 My biggest beef with selecting FX from the insert menu is that my mouse scroll wheel doesn't function when scrolling down the list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 The browser is the preferred place to insert plugins. Menus are the least efficient way. Why is searching the browser clumsy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 It is not clumsy for me but incomplete. The search does not include PC modules and FX chains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razor7music Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Sorry of this is a hijack... This may sound lame, but is there, or could there be a way to search for preset names that would include all plugins? There are times I want a preset I created, but I've got so many plugins I can't recall which one it was. Anyone else think it would be useful to be able to search by preset name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 It might be useful but very difficult to implement and the search might take some time. Presets could be in the registry or on disk, stored as individual files or in banks. The location may only be obvious to the plug-in using the presets. Presets can have a variety of file extensions that do not follow any standard. The search tool would need to be updated when a plug-in gets installed with a new proprietary preset storage system. Some manufacturers may be reluctant to provide information about their implementation. Some plug-ins have thousands of presets. For example, my install of Rapture Pro has over 19000 presets all stored in separate files. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasure Posted December 30, 2018 Author Share Posted December 30, 2018 Ok maybe not clumsy. Would be better to be able to search from the ProChannel side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemar Sain Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 On 12/30/2018 at 2:08 AM, rasure said: Ok maybe not clumsy. Would be better to be able to search from the ProChannel side. The work around would be to use the browser then drag and drop the plugins to the FX Chain from there. The Browser menu has been a huge workflow plus for me. Wish they would add a sub category feature to be able to narrow down your searches even further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razor7music Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 On 1/3/2019 at 8:34 AM, CosmicDolphin said: Pretty sure that's possible already, not in my studio to check though. But you can move any track(s) to any folder via the Track Menu , I don't drag and drop any more when sorting into folders as it can be flaky as per @Eamonn Dargan mentions. But the menu has an option to move to a given folder so I presume it works regardless of whether those tracks are already in another folder. On 12/24/2018 at 9:47 AM, scook said: It might be useful but very difficult to implement and the search might take some time. Presets could be in the registry or on disk, stored as individual files or in banks. The location may only be obvious to the plug-in using the presets. Presets can have a variety of file extensions that do not follow any standard. The search tool would need to be updated when a plug-in gets installed with a new proprietary preset storage system. Some manufacturers may be reluctant to provide information about their implementation. Some plug-ins have thousands of presets. For example, my install of Rapture Pro has over 19000 presets all stored in separate files. That makes sense. Doesn't sound worth all the backend and other work it would take. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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