My “Effects” list is an absolute MESS.
I have more than 1600 installed plugins and Audacity can’t organize them by itself (of course).
Some are called by the company name, others by the plugin name per se…
I can’t find most of them because I am not a computer to remember the comapany of all those plugins…
…I can’t remember some, of course, but that mess is not a good way to work with…
Maybe if we could just create folders and drag and drop them to categorize them…
Or maybe we could do that insede the Audacity Plugins folders, directly.
Anyway, it seems that the great Audacity team bought the car first then they got home and could see that it doesn’t fit the garage… :-))
In Audacity#3 there is an attempt to organize plugins …
My addiction is not that bad: I only have about a hundred,
but a group of the most frequently used ones would save me time.
There was some discussion a while back about having a "Favorites"folder for effects so that users could add their preferred most-used effects to such a folder.
I thought there may have been a GitHub issue (Feature Request) logged for this - but I can’t find that right now. I’ll have a better look later and if not then I’ll create one.
Peter.
Some are called by the company name, others by the plugin name per se…
This is something we want to change eventually: Let show publisher name in the list of effects when there's only one plugin (module of a plugin) of this publisher · Issue #4380 · audacity/audacity · GitHub
@waxcylinder the reason you can’t find a bug is that 2660 was about “recently used” and I haven’t made one for favourites in the public repo.
Having favourites is absolutely something we’d want to have though. I wonder if it’s possible already to edit the EffectsMenuDefaults.xml included with the binary and coax it to showing plugins instead. Doing this is completely untested and unsupported, but who knows, maybe it works anyway.
@LWinterberg Hi Leo, so do we need to raise a new issue for a favorites effects - just so we can track it?
Yep, but this seems not to be the real solution.
We should be able to classify plugins by ourselves, too.
…making folders like, let’s say, “Compressor FET”, “Mastering R&B”, “Side-Chain/Duck”, or whatever and fill them up with our tool of choice…
As soon as Audacity opened the 3rd part plugins door, it should be prepared to receive them as properly as possible, including organization…
I know, I know, it may sound a lot bitter, a lot unthankful but, this is absolutely NOT my goal.
All I want is to help to make Audacity a better choice as “the first in mind” audio editor, even for professionals because, ProTools, Logic, etc can edit audio files but I think that a “specialist” program can make it better sometimes…
Not to mention all those that are not interested on using those so complicated programs…