Virtue FX Manager for REAPER
VFxM shows your plugin library as pictures of the real interfaces. 1.2.5 opens on picture cards, adds the Modern style, and takes its thumbnails in a separate helper on Mac and on Windows, so a crashing plugin cannot take REAPER down.
Trial: 10 days, no credit card. Confirm your email to start.
VFxM sits on top of REAPER's own FX windows.
| In REAPER | With VFxM | |
|---|---|---|
| Filtering the plugin list | –One folder at a time; combine axes by typing a search | ✓Developer, Type and Category chips combine, plus free-text search |
| Several tracks’ FX at once | –One window per track; place and switch yourself | ✓Every selected track’s chain, one view, no cap |
| Item, Master and Monitoring together | –Separate windows for each, placed by hand | ✓All four together in one panel, automatically |
| Dragging a plugin between chains | –Drag copies, Alt-drag moves; windows must be open first | ✓Same gesture, directly between any two chains shown |
| Placing a plugin on the Master | –Inserted at the end; drag it into place after | ✓Insert on Master picks the exact spot first |
| Acting on a whole chain | –FX bypassed or removed one at a time | ✓Whole section: add, bypass or clear, one click |
| Recognising a plugin by sight | –Text name only in the FX list | ✓Real thumbnail of the plugin’s own interface |
| Filing plugins into a category | –No bulk category field on a plugin | ✓Cmd-click a chip, files the whole selection |
| Categories as dots or as tags | –No per-plugin category marker to style | ✓Dots or text tags, switch in Settings |
| Capturing several plugins | –No batch thumbnail capture | ✓One scan captures every selected plugin |
| Taking plugins offline | –Bypassed or removed one at a time | ✓Whole selection at once, backed up first |
| Saving a window arrangement | –Not something you name or save | ✓Named, saved, recalled any time you like |
REAPER does each of these one at a time, in its own window. VFxM does them across your whole selection, in one.
Try it free for 10 daysA guided tour the first time you open it, ten How-to walk-throughs a click away, and Hijack on a button you can see. Click any picture to see it larger.
Modern has raised panels with soft shadows, content in pressed-in wells and category chips with colour lamps. Vintage is the classic look, with the new controls drawn flat. Every colour still comes from your theme.
Settings → Theme → Style picks Vintage or Modern. Animations sits right below it and turns all motion off.
The first time you open 1.2.4 the window dims and lights one area at a time, with Back, Next and Skip. Run it again from the new ? button next to the gear.
One click switches it, and Virtue: Toggle FX window hijack does the same from a key you bind. Dimmed means no licence or trial.
Make a thumbnail, add FX to a track or an item, insert on the Master, find a plugin fast and more. Where it is safe a card says Your turn, lights the real control and waits for you. It never inserts or saves for you.
Press H. Every key in short lines under small headings, your own keys in blue, so a key you changed shows as you set it. H closes it too.
Stop Scan keeps its place and Resume Scan carries on from the plugin it stopped at, even after REAPER restarts. The progress window names each plugin before it loads.
With only the Master selected, a double-click puts the plugin on the Master instead of making a new track. The mixer's Master FX button opens VFxM there when Hijack is on.
The tour, the How-tos and the Shortcuts window included. Machine-checked, not yet reviewed by a native speaker; no right-to-left layout yet.
Plugin names, logos and interfaces shown are trademarks of their respective developers, used here only to illustrate VFxM. Virtue Creative Systems is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Windows now names the publisher on install. The certificate is new, so SmartScreen may still warn for a while. Details
Settings → Backup writes everything you have built in VFxM — favourites and banks, thumbnails, notes, ratings, categories, workspaces, shortcuts and themes — into a single file, saved wherever you choose. Restore it on another machine, or in any newer version of VFxM. Your licence is not in it, and your current data is copied aside before a restore replaces it. How it works
On an Apple Silicon Mac that ever ran REAPER under Rosetta, Unlist now writes to the cache REAPER actually reads.
Instruments are filed by REAPER's own flag. Nothing you already filed moves.
A save is confirmed on disk before it replaces the old file, so settings, favourites and workspaces survive.
VFxM stacks with REAPER's plug-in windows: it fronts at once, and coming back from another app no longer puts a plug-in window on top of it.
And the ones earlier versions left are removed, by exact name only.
Settings → License can switch off the system information; the check itself still runs.
A new Shortcuts window (press H). Drop a preset favourite onto Active FX. Double-click puts a plugin on selected items' takes too. Sharper text. Changing the text size keeps the window on the screen. Apple AU units you unlist stay unlisted. New trials start with a confirmed email - still no credit card.
Also in development: Virtue Console, a mixer with calibrated metering on every track, and a channel strip that stays out of the way until you switch it on. Not released. No price yet. macOS, inside REAPER. Tell me when it ships
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