Categories manager

Open Plugin Manager → Categories to manage how plugins are grouped and color-coded beyond the automatic category detection.

Default vs. user-defined categories

VFxM ships with a set of standard categories (EQ & Filters, Dynamics & Compressors, and so on). You can rename, delete, or recolor a category, but changing a default category prompts a confirmation first:

Modifying a default category

Editing a standard category can affect how every plugin in that category is labeled and colored across your library. The confirmation dialog offers to convert your change into a new user-defined category instead, which leaves the default untouched and is usually the safer choice.

To start over, Reset Global Categories restores the original scanned categories, clears any overrides, and resets custom colors. It sits at the right of the Categories header and is a destructive button — there is a confirmation before anything is cleared.

Called something else in 1.1.1

The 1.1.1 changelog announced this as Reset Categories to Default. The button that shipped, and the one in 1.2.3, reads Reset Global Categories.

Importing from REAPER

The Categories tab includes a section for your existing REAPER FX organization:

• FX folders → Favourite tabs — one-click import of a REAPER FX folder as a new Favourites board.
• .RfxChain presets → Favourites — one-click add of a saved REAPER FX chain file directly into Favourites, ready to drag or double-click load like any other favourite.

This is the fastest way to bring years of REAPER-side organization into VFxM without rebuilding it by hand.