Virtue Creative Systems · Support

Build the tools with us.

Virtue is one person, a few years of savings, and a conviction: REAPER users deserve tools that show them what they have instead of making them hunt for it. VFxM exists. Virtue Console is being built. If any of it has made your sessions better, this is the place to put something back into the next one.

Where the money goes

Every contribution buys development time, and nothing else. No office, no ads, no salaries but one. A day funded is a day of fixing what you reported, finishing a language, or building the thing that is still on the drawing board. You can see exactly what that looks like: the changelog lists every fix by name.

What twenty-five years of film taught me

Before audio software I spent twenty-five years in visual effects — supervising teams of a hundred to four hundred artists on work for Netflix and global brands, running a studio across three countries, judging the VES Awards, teaching the next generation. Film pipelines are built for one thing: letting hundreds of people find the right asset in seconds without breaking concentration. That discipline is the whole idea behind VFxM. The industry that taught me is not a music industry, and that is precisely the point — the approach is new here.

Giving back to the room you learned in

Nobody learns production alone. Forum threads, free scripts, someone's tutorial at two in the morning — that is how all of us got here. VFxM's trial is ten days with no card because that is how I would want to be treated. A contribution keeps that true, and it keeps the tools priced for working musicians rather than for studios.

What a contribution gets you

  • Early builds. Contributors see releases before the forum does, and their bug reports get answered first.
  • A voice on the roadmap. Contributors' requests go on the board I plan from, and they are weighed alongside everyone else's.
  • A name in the credits, on this site, if you want it there.
  • The company's own updates, written by me, about what is being built and why — including the things that did not work.

Thank you for reading this far. The best way to support the work is still to use it, tell someone about it, and tell me when it breaks.

— Rodney Costa, Virtue Creative Systems