Release History
Plugin Freq
1.0.0
The first release. Plugin Freq finds every plugin on your machine, tells you what each one really is, and measures how it behaves.
- Lists every plugin you have installed — VST3, CLAP, LV2 and VST2, 32-bit and 64-bit — with its maker, version, category and where it lives on disk. Plugins inside a shell are listed one by one, not as a single file.
- Reads the real details out of each plugin by loading it, so what you see is what your DAW sees rather than what a filename suggests. Each one is loaded on its own, so a plugin that misbehaves can't take the rest of the scan down with it.
- Search and sort the whole list, however many thousand plugins are in it.
- Every plugin gets a page of its own, with its full details and a picture of its window.
- Add your own folders to search, for plugins kept outside the usual places.
- Turn plugins off and on without uninstalling them, so your DAW stops loading the ones you don't want and finds them again when you do. Works on a whole folder at a time.
- Takes a picture of each plugin's window, so you can recognise one by sight in the list.
- Tells you when a plugin has a newer version than the one you have installed.
- The Analyzer measures a plugin the way a test bench would, and follows it as you move its controls: frequency and phase response, group delay, impulse, and the latency a plugin reports against the latency it actually has; harmonic spectrum, THD and THD+N, against frequency and against level; the transfer curve from quiet to loud, gain reduction, and attack and release times; and how much of a CPU core it costs at every buffer size from 32 to 2048, worst buffer as well as average.
- Compare two plugins side by side in the Analyzer, with the difference between them drawn on the same graph.
- Open any plugin's own window from the Analyzer, keep it on top, and zoom it.
- Measure any plugin file from a script or the command line and get the results as JSON — including a plugin straight out of a build folder, with nothing added to your list.
- Free, Plus and Pro. Free lists and inspects everything; Plus adds turning plugins off and on, pictures of plugins' windows, and update checking; Pro adds the Analyzer and the command line. Every control is visible in every version, so you can always see what the others do.
1 release in total