Teksonik wrote:No it's not. If you actually used a manager you'd realize that.
Really? How does a plug-in manager decide when I haven't used a plugin for ages and it should be removed from my HDD?
I have plugins in several different folders...Sonar has it's own plugins and structure, same for Reaper. Using a plugin manager is far easier than moving plugins around manually.
Why would you need to move them around at all? All my hosts look in Orion's VST folder for plugins. If Sonar or Reaper aren't flexible enough to allow that, Orion certainly is so just point it at the others' VST folder(s).
See the screenshot....that took me less than five minutes
I reckon it would only be two minutes work in Explorer.
... but we aren't you
No, unlike me, you clearly need all the help you can get (and you don't know what an ellipsis is). I'd also point out that I've made around 40 VSTi over the years, which definitely requires at least some wrangling. I'm just organised enough that it doesn't become a problem. And it's even worse for me because not only do I have my own plugins to wrangle, I have a band-mate who has a completely different set of plugins, instruments and effects, that I have to deal with as well. And he uses everything he can find, many of which I don't even have a license for.
And no I'm not moving .dlls and creating manual folders etc.
But you'll happily go through almost exactly the same process inside a plugin manager. Strange.
Ahhh yes Bones back in feature crushing mode again...all is well in Orion land.........
20 Programmers, hilarious.
How little faith you have in Rich..........
Yeah, right, because Rich has shown how much he loves to add things that don't involve any DSP programming, hasn't he? You really need to live in the real world.
Teksonik wrote:As for custom key bindings maybe you missed this:
Teksonik wrote:. For example in other hosts I've got my mouse back/forward buttons programmed to open the load Templates screen and Insert New Plugin. I've got the number pad programmed to view Mixer, Track View, Piano Roll etc....insert new item, set loop length etc etc......very efficient instead of searching the qwerty keyboard for hard wired key shortcuts.......
True, other hosts benefit more from key bindings but it's because they are more complex and have more options to control..........
No, I saw that - you made a key binding to make it as easy to "Insert New Plugin" in some other host as it is natively in Orion, hence my comment. I'd also caution against confusing complexity with ability. They way you put it, it sounds like you think complexity is a good thing, which could not be further from the truth.
dmassive wrote:I have classified all my VSTs into Categories and subcategories folders, this also help to save there the presets. Such level of organization is good for find something, but... is not quick, more categories, turn even slower.
So find a more efficient way to do it. e.g. Instead of categorising by type, try something like "most used", "less used" "haven't used for ages" and "I really should delete all these but I can't bring myself to do it for some inexplicable reason".
A searchbox is much much faster and is not annoying.
Oh, no, it would be as annoying as hell. First, it would have to go somewhere, taking up precious screen real estate. Then I'd have to switch to the keyboard, which is annoying if I'm standing in front of my keyboard stand.
For example, you have a 24 channel and you must insert 3 plugins per channel...
and remember, Orion don't have one of the the most basic thing in Windows... "drag and drop". So you can't move plugins easily between channels.
I hate D'n'D, it's like finger-painting - very unprofessional. In any event, moving an effect from one channel to another is as simple as right-clicking and picking which effect you want, way easier than the vagaries of D'n'D.
by dmassive » Sat Jun 14, 2014 6:17 am 
