Plugin status circles
Every plugin card carries a small status circle so you can tell at a glance whether it shows up in your normal browsing.
| Circle | Status | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 🟢 Green | Listed / Active | Visible in search and available for instant loading. |
| 🔴 Red | Unlisted / Firewalled | Hidden from the main browser to reduce clutter. |
Hiding plugins you don’t want to see
Section titled “Hiding plugins you don’t want to see”Select a plugin in the list and click the List/Unlist button under the plugin list, or press U. The label does not change — it reads List/Unlist at all times. What tells you which way the click will go is the button’s colour and the help line at the bottom of the window when you hover it:
| Button | What a click does |
|---|---|
| Red | The one plugin you have selected is listed, and will be unlisted. |
| Green | The one plugin you have selected is unlisted, and will be listed. |
| Grey | More than one plugin is selected; each one flips to its opposite state. |
| Unchanged, and not clickable | Nothing is selected. |
Use it for trial versions, duplicate wrapper formats, or utility plugins you never load directly.
The plugin list’s right-click menu
Section titled “The plugin list’s right-click menu”Right-click a row in the plugin list for:
- Capture Thumbnail and Autocapture Thumbnail — see the visual browser.
- Inspect Plugin Record — the raw database record VFxM holds for that plugin. See Inspect Plugin Record.
- Force Deactivate from REAPER — hides the plugin from REAPER’s own FX browser as well as VFxM’s, by editing matching REAPER plugin cache entries.
- Force Reactivate from REAPER — shown only when the right-clicked plugin (or something in the selection) is force-hidden; brings it back.
- Insert on Master… — with a picker for the slot. See Insert plugins onto tracks.
- Categorize — K. See Categories and colours.
Right-click inside a multi-selection and the entry acts on all of it, with the count on the label; right-click a row outside the selection and it acts on that row alone.
Selected Only, or All Related
Section titled “Selected Only, or All Related”Force Deactivate and Force Reactivate both ask before they do anything. When you are acting on a single plugin, the dialog lists any related aliases it found — the same plugin under another format or wrapper name — and offers two buttons:
- Selected Only — acts on the plugin you picked and nothing else.
- All Related — acts on it and every alias listed above.
All Related is offered only for a single plugin: on a batch it would hide plugins the dialog never showed you.
From 1.2.3 force-deactivated plugins are also listed under Plugin Manager → Force Deactivated Plugins, with Reactivate and Reactivate All, so you do not have to find the plugin in the list first — see the blocklist page for why that list is separate from the scanner’s blocklist.
VFxM’s list changes straight away; REAPER’s own FX browser shows the change after REAPER restarts.