Is there a way to rename a plugin or at least give it an alias/friendly name? I can’t seem to find it. Thanks for the assist!

I’m not sure if Studio One is necessarily perfect for me or not. I’m certainly going to check it out now though. I’ve heard good things about it. I came from Sonar X1 and the audio editing of Cubase stood out to my by comparison. I could go back to Sonar I suppose as well. That is always an option. …

Honestly that has never even crossed my mind as an issue - but you can mouse over the plugin to see the full name if it’s not obvious.

Mousing over a bank of even 8 tracks is not efficient at all let alone across an entire project. This is a standard feature that has been available on every other DAW for an extremely long time. This is nearly liken to not having midi support.

I’d be honestly curious to see an screen shot of the actual issue - the worst offender I see are “UADx blah blah blah blah,” but I have a LOT of plugins and it looks like most vendors seem to be aware of what a space constraint is. I’m browsing my channel inserts and 99% of the plugins are easily i…

Waves are the longest named plugins I’ve got and, yes, they give me issues. I get mono and stereo options regardless if the track is mono or stereo which add to my issue. UAD stuff all starts with the same prefix as does I believe all of the Brainworx stuff that I own. Again this is available on ev…

Is it not the case that when other DAWs allow renaming, it’s only at the project level? I’d prefer it at the global level. VST2 plugins could be renamed by changing the filename, why not have that option with VST3? Is that so hard? Given a choice, I’d rather Steinberg implemented renamable CCs.

Sonar X1 allows globally. From my brief look into Studio One it appears to be global. Reaper it can be done as well. In fact, I think in Reaper you can do a global alias and a single instance alias. Don’t quote me on that though. I don’t believe Pro Tools has this feature but Pro Tools is hardly t…

[image] deadautomatic: This is nearly liken to not having midi support. Oh, come on … :yawning_face:

Oh really? How often do you load a plugin? I use plugins in every session. The ability to rename them to something short and sweet is very basic level stuff. In fact there’s sessions I never use midi. So yeah… to me, and I’m sure others, the ability to customize a thing that you use several times ac…

I’d also prefer having alias names for plugins. However, my personal/subjective list of priorities for choosing DAWs, it’s quite a bit lower than a “must have”. But if it’s a “must have” for OP, then it won’t matter what other advantages Cubase brings to their workflow - and I can respect that. …

Rename Plugins?

Cubase

Michael_Ill July 15, 2025, 1:05pm 23

A while ago I collected a large thread of Plugin Manager suggestions, here:

As you can see the response is less-than-stellar.