Plugoff - Plugin Manager - 100% Free

[Midifex]

Can it be made to remember the size I drag it to please?

Yes, Plugoff remembers both the window size and font size between sessions. If you drag the lower-right corner (make sure the cursor turns grey), the font will scale with the window. More details here: https://midifex.com/support/plugoff/get ... ng-plugoff

[kvotchin]

When is it going to transition to the paid version, and what’s the price / subscription model going to be.

[kinkajou]

Can it be made to remember the size I drag it to please?

Yes, Plugoff remembers both the window size and font size between sessions. If you drag the lower-right corner (make sure the cursor turns grey), the font will scale with the window. More details here: https://midifex.com/support/plugoff/get ... ng-plugoff

Wow, never seen such a window sizing before - like it very much, thank you!

[aMUSEd]

Can it be made to remember the size I drag it to please?

Yes, Plugoff remembers both the window size and font size between sessions. If you drag the lower-right corner (make sure the cursor turns grey), the font will scale with the window. More details here: https://midifex.com/support/plugoff/get ... ng-plugoff

Wow, never seen such a window sizing before - like it very much, thank yiu!

Thanks - that wasn't working for me but I see that I needed to hold it in just the right place for the cursor to change its shape, then drag. It's confusing because there are 2 different grab/drag gestures and the normal one drags without resizing fonts or retaining size

[Midifex]

When is it going to transition to the paid version, and what’s the price / subscription model going to be.

We still haven't decided on that yet. Best to grab it while it's free, and any future updates will be free too once you've downloaded it.

[kvotchin]

So, to be clear, this isn’t “baitware”?

I’ve seen it many times: free to start with (and no statement it’ll become paid); becomes paid …

[Deisss]

So, to be clear, this isn’t “baitware”?

I’ve seen it many times: free to start with (and no statement it’ll become paid); becomes paid …

Event if it become paid, a software like this, clearly heavily created using AI btw, will be free and open source in no time.

It's just too simple to worth more than 10 ish dollars/euros in current market.

[ElkaisAmun]

Hello Midifex, I think it would be really great to have the option to rename or add categories. It would be very convenient if Plughoff's folder structure mirrored the DAW's folders.

I don't know if it's possible... maybe too complicated... in any case, thank you very much, this software is great!

[kinkajou]

What i would like to see is the ability to tag plugins with more then one category and the following has been bugging me for a while:
how about having the ability to create and manage "sets" — so that when I know I'm starting a 100% mixing session, I can load such a set beforehand, making only my mixing/mastering plugins available in the DAW for more focus. Another time, if I'm in the mood to work exclusively with eg. Arturia and a few things from Tokyo Dawn, I just load that set instead. This way I could put together "sets" depending on my mood and vibe. It would also work against GAS, because you can deliberately limit yourself and work more focused.

Currently, it's possible to "offload" multiple plugins at once using filters, but the reverse isn't possible that simple — "onloading" them requires tediously clicking through each one individually.

[Midifex]

So, to be clear, this isn’t “baitware”?

I’ve seen it many times: free to start with (and no statement it’ll become paid); becomes paid …

Hi Kvotchin

I really wanted to respond to you here as I am the creator of Plugoff. We are a small music company based in New Zealand. If you check our website you will see we have three products and our hardware Lujin for cinematic composers ships around the world. https://midifex.com/

We genuinely wanted to solve the nightmare of plugins for ourselves and thought a quick utility like this would help us and others too. It is free and anyone that has it, all future updates will be free too. It costs money to host, run and develop and so only if we need to in the future we might make an option for a donation or small license fee. But to be clear, that won't affect anyone that has it.

I can see how you might think it's baitware but we don't collect any plugin data, the app runs entirely offline. We do ask you to log in on first run and that just helps us understand how many people are using Plugoff, to date that's thousands in the last few weeks.

I hope that helps, and if you have any concerns please reach out to me. Here to help.

Regards
Oliver

[Midifex]

Thanks for all the feedback from KVR users, a new update is out now.

Plugoff 1.2.0:

UAD System Profile - matching overhauled for Mac and Windows - match rate is now excellent!
Zoom controls - to adjust font and screen size
Scanning - Scan your entire Plugin protfolio now in a matter of seconds

Free update for all users. Open the app and it will prompt you to update, or grab it from https://midifex.com/plugoff

[mutagen]

Scanning - Scan your entire Plugin protfolio now in a matter of seconds

Wow, that is fast! Solved a mystery right away for me with the new Vital update and where the VST(2) was installed.

Zoom with the Search and Sources dropdown is a little weird for me. Windows, 4k monitor 125% scaling. I had the zoom turned up a little (a handful of clicks based on clicking on '-' and nothing was visible when I typed in 'vital'.

Edit: Feature request: Find my plugins that have another version installed. For instance: VSTs that have a VST3 version. VST and VST3 that have a CLAP installed. AAX that have a VST or VST3 installed.

[mutagen]

This is some genius suggestion and IMO worth a paid tier:

What i would like to see is the ability to tag plugins with more then one category and the following has been bugging me for a while:
how about having the ability to create and manage "sets" — so that when I know I'm starting a 100% mixing session, I can load such a set beforehand, making only my mixing/mastering plugins available in the DAW for more focus. Another time, if I'm in the mood to work exclusively with eg. Arturia and a few things from Tokyo Dawn, I just load that set instead. This way I could put together "sets" depending on my mood and vibe. It would also work against GAS, because you can deliberately limit yourself and work more focused.

Currently, it's possible to "offload" multiple plugins at once using filters, but the reverse isn't possible that simple — "onloading" them requires tediously clicking through each one individually.

I think this could work well, especially with a clear focused vision for these features because everyone has an opinion on this kind of thing and while most of those opinions are correct, building this would disappoint some and make others happy.

I see it along the same lines as plugin preset browsers, a variety of developers have made some nice preset browsers and yet we all have our favorites and complain about stuff that doesn't work the way we want or expect.

[husker37]

a software like this, clearly heavily created using AI BTW...

Why do you assume this?

[Midifex]

What i would like to see is the ability to tag plugins with more then one category and the following has been bugging me for a while:
how about having the ability to create and manage "sets" — so that when I know I'm starting a 100% mixing session, I can load such a set beforehand, making only my mixing/mastering plugins available in the DAW for more focus. Another time, if I'm in the mood to work exclusively with eg. Arturia and a few things from Tokyo Dawn, I just load that set instead. This way I could put together "sets" depending on my mood and vibe. It would also work against GAS, because you can deliberately limit yourself and work more focused.

Currently, it's possible to "offload" multiple plugins at once using filters, but the reverse isn't possible that simple — "onloading" them requires tediously clicking through each one individually.

Hi, couple of quick points

1 try tagging (or bulk tagging) plugins with a note. call the note Tokyo Dawn for example. The search incudes notes so you can search Tokyo Dawn, tag all and offload onload in groups.

2. same thig for restoring, you can search on a tag/note and then just tag all to restore.

Might not be an exact match for your request...but getting close