VST FL Studio Library\Database Management

[tophatwilliam]

Greetings

I have 2000 VSTS including native instruments komplete 13 collectors addition

i dont know what most of my VSTS are. They are only listed in fl studio as either effect or generator

not sure how to handle this

[satYatunes]

It's a herculean task to organize it properly. I just went through a clean up routine after upgrading to Windows 11.

First of all you need to uninstall the ones that you don't use.
I have Komplete standard and have installed only the fx and library that I use. Native access is pretty good so if u need something from the pack you can install it in a few mins.

Another thing that I did was renaming the file extension from dll/vst3 to something else. This way it remains on the hard disk but doesn't show up in DAW. If I need it, I just have to rename it and scan.
Some DAW even allow you to hide (studio one) or create your own list (sonar).
FL Studio also allows to create your own list by using favourite method. This way it shows only the fav plugins in the list.

Like I said it needs some time and patience to get it organised properly. There are some youtube videos for fl studio plugin organization. Look for it.

[musical_duck]

Using AI to categorise them "might" help. Or at least be a starting point.

You can use the following commands on Windows to copy all your FL Studio VSTs as a list which you can paste into say https://perplexity.com. You can ask it to categorise by Type or Company for example.

Open the Command Prompt and put one of the following:

To copy a list of your Effects VST3s to your clipboard:

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dir /b "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Image-Line\FL Studio\Presets\Plugin database\Installed\Effects\VST3" | clip

To copy a list of your Instrument VST3s to your clipboard:

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dir /b "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Image-Line\FL Studio\Presets\Plugin database\Installed\Generators\VST3" | clip

This will copy them to your clipboard. Then you can paste the list into an AI and ask it to categorise by Type or Company for example.

Note: the above commands are for VST3s. For older VSTs you can remove the 3 at the end.

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Edit: Also agree with what @satYatunes said above. It does take a bit of time to do this.

[robindrieghe]

2000 , why?

[lepharaon]

Greetings

I have 2000 VSTS including native instruments komplete 13 collectors addition

i dont know what most of my VSTS are. They are only listed in fl studio as either effect or generator

not sure how to handle this

Use FL’s Plugin Manager: fix generator/effect types, organize folders, rescan, then tag. Optional: use third-party cataloging for 2000+ VSTs.

[WilliamAshley]

Yes, plugin developers ideally include the type of plugin it is when they build the plugin there are a handful of stock characteristics. For closed source plugins this isn't avaiable but I would think you can build a host that can find that info if it is supplied. To be fair though only major types of vst types for instance may be provided, both VST3 and AAX have some common plugin types Note FL Studio can organize that way in "Catagories" view mode in the right click functions when you pull up the list of "favorited plugins" via which I think uses any type data included in the plugin. I would think it would not be super difficult to write a vst3 host that takes that data instead of building a tree such as FL Studio does instead creates a cvs file or sheet that is viewable to know the catagory and other pullable infos from plugins. I am guessing this doesn't exist yet but I suppose someone reading this may be able to make it. FL Studio also does build its own plugin database.. but I am not sure if type info is in there I havn't really looked for it but it does store vendor and effect/synth info, beyond that not sure but since it does have catagories mode I sort of think it does pull it so it may actually be in the database but isn't viewable in plugin manager but may exist in the actual database created when you search. That file is searchable and a simple python script would likely be able to pull and spit that info out for you. So you may be able to speed up tagging by autotagging if you make a script for it 1. pull type data from plugin 2. tag plugin with type data in listing method you are using. Not all plugins include type data but they probably should.