Virtue Creative Systems · Shipping, 1.2.3
REAPER's own browser already finds plugins. What it cannot do is show you one. Virtue FX Manager puts a picture of the actual interface on every plugin you own, so you recognise the thing you want instead of reading a list of names.
It is a native C++ extension for REAPER — not a plug-in you load on a track, and not a script. That is why it opens instantly on a library of thousands, and why it can reach parts of REAPER a script cannot.
10 days, fully featured. No credit card. Confirm your email to start.
What it actually does
In that order. Speed comes out of these rather than being a feature of its own.
A compressor looks like that compressor. You find things the way you find them on a desk — by recognising them — instead of reading a column of names that all begin with the same manufacturer. Nothing to draw and nothing to tag; the picture is the plugin.
Favourites arranged the way you think, with artwork you choose: a photo of the amp, a shot of the hardware, whatever makes you recognise it in half a second. Vocals, drums, parallel paths — one board each.
Save a whole chain with its routing, give it a picture, and drag it onto a track. The chain stops being a preset buried in a menu and becomes a thing you can pick up.
Every action has a key, and every key can be changed. Against a stock browser you can only drive with a mouse, this is the part that stops feeling like a feature and starts feeling like the way you work.
Reclaim your visual memory. Identify compressors, EQs, and instruments by their actual GUI layouts. Snaps screenshot thumbnails automatically.
Create dedicated workspace boards for vocals, drums, master bus, or synths. Drag plugins from your library straight into your boards.
Group plugins together (e.g., Gate → EQ → Comp). Double click to instantiate the entire signal chain into REAPER sequentially in one action.
VFxM talks to REAPER directly. Double-click to load onto active tracks, or drag card thumbnails into REAPER's arranger to auto-create track pathways.
Filter by developer brand name, plugin format (VST, VST3, AU, CLAP, JSFX), or search by category keywords in milliseconds.
Inspect real-time plugins loaded on your selected REAPER track. Easily reorder, bypass, or float FX windows, and manage dedicated master monitoring plugins (room correction, meters, headphone compensation) in a clean separate tab.
VFxM automatically scans your plugin paths (VST, VST3, AU, CLAP, JSFX) in the background. It spins up instances on a dummy track to capture screenshots and build your visual grid library in minutes, skipping crash-prone wrappers automatically.
Organize your frequently used EQs, limiters, and synth channels into horizontal tabs. Group chains together to import them onto a track with a single shortcut command.
Select tracks in REAPER, double click cards in VFxM to load, or drag and drop onto your session grid to create new tracks instantly.
Languages
Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German and French are translated across the whole interface, Settings and the Plugin Manager included, except the 48 strings 1.2.3 added last, which show in English until they are translated. Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Russian and Urdu cover 569 of 593 strings, 96% — a machine-checked count, not yet a native speaker's review. There is no right-to-left layout.
Right-to-left layout is not built yet, so Arabic and Urdu are readable but laid out left to right. I would rather say that here than have you find it after paying.
Before you install it
The trial is the whole product, so you will find all of this out anyway. Better here.
Specifications
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The trial is the full product for 10 days. It asks for no card and no account, and the thing that decides it is whether your own plugins look right in it — which we cannot show you from here.
Also being built: Virtue Console, a mixer with real metering on every track.
