Some Ideas For FXpansion
These are some ideas I came up with for improving the FXpansion VST to RTAS adapter to make it a little more user friendly.
Clockwise from the top left.
- Correct Version #: currently V2.11 displays as V2.0 and that’s just careless.
- Saving and recalling plugin sets: being able to save a preset of your favorite plugins to wrap would be nice. That way if you unwrap them all you don’t have to search through the list for them again.
- Unwrap selected plugin: This is currently not an option in the Tools menu, there is Detect New; Wrap selected; and Unwrap all. To unwrap one you have to do them all. Annoying!
- Resize the window frames: As you can see there is a lot of unused white space there in the middle and a tiny little list you have to scroll though. Shrink that top part please!
- Plugin category sorting: the list currently displays various characteristics of the plugins but there is no way to sort the list to help you find what you’re looking for. Sorting by name, vendor, and type would be great.
I really think these 5 small improvements would help a lot.
2 Responses to “Some Ideas For FXpansion”
By terminal3 on Aug 27, 2008 | Reply
great ideas. have you submitted these as feature requests directly to fxpansion?
how about also a ‘clear all failed plug-ins from screen’ option?
By Jon on Aug 27, 2008 | Reply
I did post this on the FXpansion forum earlier this week but did not receive any response, which seems to be the norm unfortunately.
I was also thinking that a “Ban selected plugin” option would be nice to get rid of the non-vst items in the list, or ones you know will not wrap correctly. Then of course have a way to view and edit the list of banned items would be necessary.