I just want to suggest a feature i’ve wanted for years. I can’t see a thread anywhere on it. Occasionally, to troubleshoot problems, it’d be useful to only show tracks with a certain plugin used in the insert. For example, i want to find all instances of tracks where altiverb is used, so that i can quickly disable those tracks. Or perhaps, I’ve upgraded a plugin or deleted a plugin. It shows me which tracks are missing that plugin when i open the old session, but it’d be nice to then be able to just show only those tracks so i can quickly replace or address the missing plugin issues with something else, rather than manually going through and finding each track in the template that had that plug on it. Does this make any sense? Does anyone have an efficient solution for this or could this be a good feature to implement? There’s been many times where i’d like to know how many instances of a plugin i’m using and if i could just see ONLY all the tracks that have “cinematic rooms” on them or whatever, it’d be quite useful in my opinion.
I am not aware of a way to filter the tracks by plugin.
Effects like reverbs or delays are preferrably used as sends, so this should be an easy one if you don’t use them as separate inserts on your tracks.
If you want to go through all your inserts you could uncheck almost everything else in the mixer layout to set the focus on inserts. That should give you a better overview.
Apart from that I am running out of ideas. I remember that someone mentioned a 3rd party tool that lists all used plugins of your project. But that would be of little help in your case.
One last thing: If you want this request to be categorized as a feature request you can tag it accordingly in your title. That way chances are much higher that it will be seen by Steinberg.
Thanks for the thoughts on this. i added the tag for feature request. I just wanted to know if anyone else thought this would be a useful feature. I certainly would love it. Sometimes i just want to know where all the tracks are that use a specific plugin. We can search by track name very easily. Would love to have the option to search used plugins on inserts. I do use sends for reverb/ delays of course, but with a 2000 track template of instrument tracks, i also use lots of plugs on inserts and it’s very easy to lose track of where they all are or how many i have of a given plugin. Thanks