Any way to organize my effects list? Part 2

[Gale Andrews]

For some effects, the manual definition wouldn't be bad. Vst plug-ins in particular tend to be ill-named and have either Vst in Front or the manufacturers name.
I'm personally not interested in the fact that it is a Vst-plug-in but rather if it is a limiter or a phaser.

See plugins.cfg in the Audacity folder for application data:

• Windows 2000/XP: Documents and Settings<user name>Application DataAudacity
• Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8: Users<user name>AppDataRoamingAudacity
• OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/

Effect Menu displays the VST effect by displaying the "Vendor" text in plugins.cfg, adding a colon, then displaying the "Name" text. So you can make the effect display in the menu as you choose by editing plugins.cfg, for example you could have it display as "Normalizer: Level Booster" by making Vendor=Normalizer and Name=Level Booster.

Just bear in mind that VST rescan will wipe out your custom text in plugins.cfg.

If the effect starts with "VST:" in the Effect Menu this is because the plug-in manufacturer supplied no vendor name. So if you wanted to start the text in Effect Menu with "VST:", just leave the Vendor text empty.


Gale

[Robert J. H.]

For some effects, the manual definition wouldn't be bad. Vst plug-ins in particular tend to be ill-named and have either Vst in Front or the manufacturers name.
I'm personally not interested in the fact that it is a Vst-plug-in but rather if it is a limiter or a phaser.

See plugins.cfg in the Audacity folder for application data:

• Windows 2000/XP: Documents and Settings<user name>Application DataAudacity
• Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8: Users<user name>AppDataRoamingAudacity
• OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/

Effect Menu displays the VST effect by displaying the "Vendor" text in plugins.cfg, adding a colon, then displaying the "Name" text. So you can make the effect display in the menu as you choose by editing plugins.cfg, for example you could have it display as "Normalizer: Level Booster" by making Vendor=Normalizer and Name=Level Booster.

Just bear in mind that VST rescan will wipe out your custom text in plugins.cfg.

If the effect starts with "VST:" in the Effect Menu this is because the plug-in manufacturer supplied no vendor name. So if you wanted to start the text in Effect Menu with "VST:", just leave the Vendor text empty.


Gale

I've long ago abandoned modifying the config file because of your mentioned points.
It will make sense again as soon as effects can be added one at a time and without restarting Audacity, i.e. on the fly.