Plugin Inventory

Hey folks,
Is there any way to take a plugin inventory other than counting and writing? Is there some sort of tool that does this? Not into writing down, like, 275 plugin names. Thanks!

Alternatively, you can often extract text from images. It's not a perfect solution, but it works fairly well. If you have MS One Note, that's what I usually use to extract text from images.

YouDontHasToCallMeJohnson
Also: using more that about 30 plugins: you are wasting your life time.

Hell there's more than 30 in X3 alone!!

YouDontHasToCallMeJohnson

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YouDontHasToCallMeJohnson
Also: using more that about 30 plugins: you are wasting your life time.

Hell there's more than 30 in X3 alone!!

Yea. And how many do actually we use?
Getting good with a few tools saves time.  Which is all there is.
But ya can't tell young people that. They won't believe ya. 

I've got over 400 installed (64 bit), I use a couple regularly but...
There's always that one sound that you just HAVE to get. I've bought expensive guitars just to get to play a part that I thought was cool. I've got Rick's, Strats, Tele's, Les Pauls, Flying V's, Baby Z's, a Dano Bari, a P-Bass, a closet full of stomp boxes, and a spare bedroom full of guitar amps. It's the same thing. You may end up using something once, but if it gets you to where you want to go it's probably worth it. Depends on your ear.
 

OK, it appears I've been able to make it work for 64-bit installations. At least, it works here for me. If anybody's game to give it a try, PM me your email address and I'll send you the executable.

YouDontHasToCallMeJohnson
Also: using more that about 30 plugins: you are wasting your life time.

Telling people they are wasting their life time seems like a waste of life time, to me at least.
 
 
And I'm wondering, why is 30 the "right" number? Isn't 29 one better? And if so, 28 seems even better/less waste of life time.
 
But, if 30 is the right number you better harp on CW for selling a Producer version. IIRC it comes with more than 30 plugins (since a VSTi is a plug in too).
 

YouDontHasToCallMeJohnson
Also: using more that about 30 plugins: you are wasting your life time.

Different things for different projects. I have a vast array of genres I work in for different projects and use way more than 30 quite a lot. There are some I will always return to for 90% of my projects such as Omnisphere and Spaces but to say more than 30 is wasting your life is a vast overstatement. ;)
 
Plus, I think I've just added VMR to my list of "always use" plugins. I'm sure if I pick up the new FabFilter Total bundle, a lot of those will be added as well.

(Time to pull a rabbit out of my hat.)
 
(23 is the answer to everything.)
 
I did a quick count of the last few projects and found I am using about 15 regularly.
 
I figger dudes who are working with audio more than me prolly use about 2 times as many.
 
And, as THE CRAIG has written, nearly all the plugs we have had for years do much more than at first seems.
 
So, my suggestion is to learn how to do more with less, and hence save the life-time of searching for hours to get stuff, and then spending lots of hours attempting to learn them, and then maintaining them, and then abandoning just when the learning has begun.
 
I have purchased 3rd party plugins such as Kantos, and Ozone (still v.3), and VSampler 3, and various samples, and other bits I gathered along the journey. But I mostly use the stuff included with Sonar 1-X3: DP, SD, Rapture, Zeta, Sonitus EQ, reverb, modulator, gate, compressor, Perfect Space, Boost, and CW Amp Sim (a lot). I have Guitar rig in a few projects, but not for guitar. Most of the guitar is recorded from the amps.
 
No doubt Breverb, and AD, and Overloud, and all the new plugs from the last 3 Sonar versions are great. But I have limited time. If I can get more from Sonitus Reverb then I have spent less time and know more.
 
(My favorite big reverb is PS with a forest impulse, followed by PS with a canyon, cave, or cooling tower impulse.)
 
What I have read in the Sonar forums for the past 12+ years is the included plugins, effects, and synths, can do just about everything most of us need.
 
No doubt Waves, and UA, etc are great. And no doubt some of you guys have them.
 
But, how many individual plugins do you use regularly?  
 

I user all 1535 of my purchased plugins on every project* of mine.
 
 
 
 
 
 
* My first project will be done in 238.64333333333..... years. Keep an eye out for it.

By the way, I'm perfectly aware that a fair quantity of my 1535 plugs are mono version of plugs that I could eliminate in lieu of simply using the stereo version.
 
But I find that a waste of life time to do.
 

mike_mccue
Mr. bapu, 27 is the prime number.

That Am keywrecked.

bapu: I emailed you a copy.

bitflipper
bapu: I emailed you a copy.

Do you mean the 32bit version?
 
I'm waiting on the 64bit version.