Where's the Vegas Category Sorting in the Audio Plugin Manager?

Rednroll wrote on 7/4/2025, 8:46 AM

I'm setting up a new PC with my typical A/V tools and 3rd party plugins. One of the more tedious tasks when doing this was always organizing my plugins in Vegas by creating Category sub-folders. After I installed my Waves plugins, I fired up Reaper and noticed "Wow! Reaper put my over 650+ Waves plugins into category sub-folders within its plugin manager view for me, what a HUGE time saver!". I then proceeded to Install Sound Forge Pro 18 and immediately noticed a similar category organization folder view in the Sound Forge Plugin Manager view. "Oh how nice! VST3 Audio Plugins must now support a category label field which can get populated by the plugin developers, so the host apps can automatically put them into category folders for me, that is similar to what Vegas Pro does for Video plugins."

Well, let's install the latest Vegas Pro 22 on the new PC and see what happens there. I mean the Magix team did say how they realized how the audio side of Vegas has been neglected and Gary was brought onto the team where they were going to start focusing more attention on the audio side development of Vegas and started by adding VST3x64 plugin support. So certainly, Vegas would be also supporting the Audio plugin Auto Category organization so it could better match the Video plugin views in the Vegas plugin manager? Obviously someone at Magix must be aware of the plugin category feature now supported by VST3 plugins since it was added to Sound Forge Pro right? Oh wait....where is this feature in the Vegas Pro 22 Plugin Manager view? Vegas really isn't focusing on ensuring to bring the Vegas audio features up to date?

Gary???

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rraud wrote on 7/4/2025, 10:31 AM

 Hi Red,, good to see you are still around.
Vegas does not have a plug-in manager (aka, Organize) like in Sound Forge. When you the open the chainer to add Fx to a track bus or event, the plug-ins are semi-organized: All..Vegas Third Party, Automatable, Trk Optimized, 5:1 and Fx Chains" ,Beyond that, you have to organize them manually creating additional folders. Vegas has other more serious audio issues though that renders it unusable for more than basic mixing, See the recent topics in the (Vegas) Audio forum.,

Rednroll wrote on 7/4/2025, 4:12 PM

Thanks for the heads up @rraud. I guess it’s not the end of the world since on my past systems setups I had to setup the plugin categories on 4 apps. Vegas, Reaper, Forge and Acid. Now with this plugin auto category I’m down to 1 app (Vegas) and already have an Excel cheatsheet created. Just disappointing seeing an obvious omission missing from Vegas. I miss the days from when SF, Vegas and Acid all functioned consistently with their common features. At least Vegas ran the x64 VST3 Waves plugins unlike Acid Pro but AP has been abandoned and I no longer have a use for it.

Rednroll wrote on 7/4/2025, 6:02 PM

I take that back. After further exploration my Waves VST3 x64 plugins don't work in Vegas Pro 22 Build 250. However, they work fine in Sound Forge 18 and Reaper. Thought I was going to try and get away with just installing the VST3 x64 bit versions. It seems like too tall of an order to expect.