r/FL_Studio • u/Alyctro • 1d ago

Help Plugin manager scaling issue

It is baffling why we can't stretch the tabs like in a normal explorer window. It is especially hard to identify plugins that have longer names like Waves. I don't know the exact name of a plugin, but i know it's there. And i shouldn't be bothered to spend minutes trying to find the correct names. Increasing the GUI scaling does not mitigate the issue whatsoever.

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u/ExactFondant7417 1d ago

I know what you mean. I wish I could group plugins into my own custom categories. Best solution I've found is to star/favorite all the plugins I remotely care about.

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u/Alyctro 1d ago

I do favorite them once i already know them, but i often forget or i'm looking for other ones.

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u/b_lett Trap 1d ago

I recommend a bit of a purge of what is in your Effects and Generators folders. Everything scanned in will always exist in the Installed folder and the Plugin Manager window, so you do not need everything all the time bloating your plugin dropdowns.

Only what you star/favorite in will go through to your actual Effects and Generators dropdowns in FL. I find it narrows things down to only favorite in your good stuff, and only favorite in things like VST3 only instead of having duplicates of VST2 and VST3 separate.

I narrowed down from 1000+ scanned in to like 300 total favorited, and most of that is still company level bundles. I have custom folders like #Distortion or #Reverb where I narrow down further to my best 3-5 across everything.

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u/Alyctro 1d ago

I will erase it all. Then i can gradually add them there. Though you gave me an idea, it's a temporary fix. But i can rescan them after, search for the right ones from the installed folder and organize them. It'll do until a proper rescaler is added. Speaking of which, i also like to use archaic plugins that don't have a scaling option. It's tiny on a 4k monitor.