The title says it. I remember there being software, which could list your installed vsti´s and vst fx´s, and you could then export the list as text file. I´ve been trying to search it from internet, but could not found it.
I need to install OS on new drive and I hate that missing plugin thing, when starting older projects, also my back up SSD drive would have everything installed and ready with just swap of a SSD drives.

TIA, Legotron

 

http://www.nirsoft.net/
this site has alot o small apps for that sorta thing.

 

https://www.karenware.com/powertools/karens-directory-printer

 

This one is a blast, it takes a very fast snapshot and export it an "explorer-like" browsable .html:
https://www.rlvision.com/snap2html/about.php

I learnt about it here in other thread.

 

You can do this with TotalCommander too. Search for *.dll in the folder, in the result list click the most right botton (Feed to listbox), Mark -> Copy Names With Path To Clipboard and paste into a text file.

 

Last edited: Mar 19, 2020

shift right click on your vst folder, open cmd here, write in your cmd dir > myfavOuritevSTfolder.txt go in your favourite vst folder. open the text file. congratulations.

 

With this little tool you can export from every active window...even from Boxes in Your DAW to a text file.

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/sysexp.html

For example go into the the list of your DAW with the installed Plugins (maybe expand it if you have more than 1 PlugIn from one developer) then use the mentioned tool scoll down the list and export the wanted list.

 

there are already a lot of great answers so i dont feel so guilty asking but why cant you just look in your plugin directories? do you not keep all plugins within a few folders?

 

@tun vst2+vst3 folder is like 200 plugins or more, kind of hard to memorize them all by only looking

 

edit- i miss @alex921 already post

open CMD prompt
navigate to vst2 folder
dir /b > MyVST2Files.txt
repeat vst3 folder

problem you will have extra files in list, some vst mahybe have crypto name hard to find meaning

type help dir in cmdprompt for more option

 

I don't know about windows features, but on mac I can open any directory in chrome browser (address for Applications folder is file:///Applications/ ) and save page as html file.

 

Directory Lister... is half perfect for me.


Edit: Not a solution for .vst3 plugins!

 

Last edited: Mar 20, 2020

ah okay, you have LOTS
maybe you can copy n paste from your plugin list within your DAW?
or use a pen and paper or text document of some kind?
you started this thread over a month ago, i feel like you could have used a pen and paper in that time maybe im just old idk.

 

Well, I tried few of those programs with no luck, ended up taking photos of folders with my phone
I wasn´t patient enough to get stuck with it

 

ah yes, the pen and paper of 2020

 

Your request caused me to do a little googleing.
I may try to code this up. Using the directory approach would be ok in a simplistic way, but it wouldn't expose the VST's real name as you would see in your DAW. Might be able to expose the version information also. It'd be a good beginning exercise for some other projects I have in mind.
I'll likely make the interface similar to Cakewalk's VST Preferences page where you would be able to include multiple plugin directories. You guys could give me a head start by listing several default VST locations that you are aware of.
For anyone that's interested, I found the following .NET wrappers:
https://github.com/obiwanjacobi/vst.net
https://github.com/obiwanjacobi/midi.net

 

XSearch is an excellent freeware search tool that can export lists of found files (e.g. *.dll, *.vst3) into a tab-delimited text file.
This file can then be viewed a/o processed with Excel.
The application requires almost no resources and can also be integrated into Windows Explorer context menu.
In addition, it has extensive search criteria and a hex viewer.

https://www.easexp.com/xsearch/

 

After further reading, it appears that VST.NET will only host VST2.4. Don't know how useful this would be if it missed VST3 plugins.
I'll keep looking.

 

For a coder with a little VST2.x/VST3 coding experience it would be sure easy to programming a small utility to collect all VST header information's and put it out to a html, or?

 

Last edited: Mar 21, 2020

@digitaldragon I use the basic folders, that Steinberg recommends ->
C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\VSTPlugins