Per-plugin notes

Notes is one of VFxM’s five panels. It holds free text against whatever you have selected, and nothing else: what a plugin is good for, the setting you always end up at, which of two similar compressors you actually reach for, the thing about it you keep forgetting.

Opening the panel

Show or hide Notes from View → Notes, or press 3. Like every panel it can be docked, resized, and kept that way in a workspace.

Writing a note

1. Select one plugin in the list, or one favourite on a board.
2. Type in the Notes box.

That is the whole action — there is no Save button. The note is written to disk as you type and the status line confirms Notes saved.

One at a time

Notes are kept per plugin, so the box needs to know which plugin you mean. With nothing selected, or with several plugins selected, it greys out and says so. Click a single plugin and it comes back, holding whatever you wrote last time.

What can carry a note

• A plugin in the library.
• A favourite on a board.
• An FX preset or FX chain you saved off a track.
• An .RfxChain imported from REAPER.

Anything you can select on its own can carry a note.

The search box does not look inside notes — it matches the plugin’s name, developer, category and type. Notes are yours to read, not a second index.

Notes stay put

A note is filed against the plugin itself — its developer, name and format — not against its position in REAPER’s plugin cache. So a note survives:

• a rescan, including one that reorders the library;
• updating VFxM, which never removes favourites, banks, thumbnails, notes, ratings or categories;
• unlisting the plugin and listing it again.

Notes live in VFxM_Notes.json in your Virtue/ data folder (see file locations), and are inside what a backup copies.