Question

If you have lots of plugins where the names all begin with prefixes like "TRacks" or "UAD" or "Virtual..." you may not want the ability to permanently rename those plugins in the browser. The idea is you'd rename them once in the Plugin Browser/Manager and the name would stay that way in the browser and all views until you changed it again (obviously you'd have the option to restore to default too).

How it would work:

1. With the Plugin Browser/Manager open

2. Right Click Plugin

3. In pop-up menu, I have the option to overwrite the plugin name (could work similar to naming arranger track sections where you just type over it) or have a menu item to "Rename Plugin." Doing so, would overwrite the plugin name in the browser and how it appears in any Effect Bins by default. Note: if a user had manually renamed a plugin in an Effect Bin in the past, that prior name should remain unchanged

4. If right+clicking a plugin that's already been renamed, a new menu option should appear called "Restore Plugin Name." This would revert the plugin name back to default.

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestion.

If anyone else agrees or disagrees, please vote on it.

Answer 2

I actually tried doing this earlier today. Would be nice. For instance, I have to rename "MeterPlugs Dynameter x64" every time I insert it. Its name is impractically long, and I'd just like to shorten it in the browser.

Answer 3

This is a must have feature.

Answer 4

WORK AROUND: Saving a preset appears to save the edited name from the tab in the Editor
So rename the VST in the Editor tab then Save as Default Preset from the Editor
Next time you add it, it should, have the short name.
This was irritating me too... hope you find this useful.

Answer 5

I tried a trial of Studio One and immediately uninstalled when I realized how bad the plugin management was.  SONAR, REAPER, and ACID Pro all allow you to set a Friendly plugin name, and SONAR even chooses an acceptable friendly name out of the box, when it loads the plugin.  Studio One just seems to choose the name of the DLL file, which is unacceptable.

This happens for all VST2 Plugins (Effect and Instrument).

I tried for an hour to look for a way to fix it, and just decided to uninstall the application, instead.

So much for being eager to switch after the trial.

Answer 6

This hasn't gotten any attention in quite a few years. Some companies have changed their plugins' default names, but at large, this is still something I'd like implemented for simplicity's sake reading the Console.

Answer 7

Has there been any update on this in the last 5 years? I think it shouldnt be that hard to implement to store some Alias Name for each plugin. :)

Answer 8

More than a year later, and I'm guessing it hasn't been addressed?

Answer 9

Yes please! Many others DAW allows you to change the name of what they show on plugin manager...  I don´t know why Presonus didn´t implement it... It's easy as make a "layer of names" to the DAW where 1 (real name file) = 2 (name showed custom edited by the user)

It's annoying to see names with no capital words or _ - as separator, or redundant appendices...

But not only is just an aesthetical feature... It will have an impact to fast behavior to the user having his plugins well custom organized

Maybe on S5.4 ??????????

Answer 10

I was quite shocked regarding this. Twice, in fact.

First I was shocked that such a function did not already exist, since mostly everything else in Studio One already works exactly as one would expect.

Secondly, I was shocked again, and more so, that this had been suggested so, so long ago and no action has been taken to implement it.

Answer 11

This can't be difficult to implement. So do it...!

Answer 12

This request was made 7 years ago with a fair amount of upvotes, Please implement this.

Answer 13

Please PreSonus... This is can be solved with a simple update... It's very annoying have brainworxvocal_v3_x64 or ssl_native_com_v3x64 just illustrating this as an example... Looks what beautiful is this!

Brainworx Vocal

SSL Native Compressor

With .dll files there is no great problem, you can rename the .dll file and S1 recognizes it, but with vst3 you can rename the file but S1 still showing the real dev name...Please solve this!!! You can create a layer A. The name showed on the explorer that call internally to B. the real name

Answer 14

I would like this because, nobody can call the plugin what it actually is due to legal reasons, for analog hardware emulation.

So the Waves VComp is actually an emulation of a Neve 2254/R Diode-Bridge compressor, but I can't know that unless I look it up.  Which is bad for learning what I am actually doing and using, and WHY things sound different from each other.

If I could rename the plugin, I could name it VComp (Neve 2554), then I would know that.

Similar to things like Waves Puigchild, is actually a Fairchild emulation, but I always call it Puigchild and look like an idiot.

The AXEFX has a similar problem where they will call a Diezel amp a "DAS METALL" because they can't say Diezel, which makes it super hard to tell what I am actually liking/using without going on the internet and reminding myself every time.

Answer 15

Is this still not implemented? It's super annoying when each company has their own formatting in the plugin names, some use abbreviations, some use all caps, some have stupid unnecessary suffixes etc.

Answer 16

How is this STILL not a thing? It's just so basic and so useful.

Answer 17

I vote for this. I think it is something extremely necessary and does not seem that complicated to implement.