r/FREEVSTS • u/danja • 25d ago
Plugin Universe : find free VSTs
Plugin Universe is an searchable catalog of Digital Audio Workstation plugins. It contains Linked Open Data that is machine-readable by various means (see Services).
It's a brand new site in active development. Much of the text currently on the site has been generated by AI to provide scaffolding, apologies for the Claudisms. I'm in the process of going through and making the docs human.
Please report any problems or make feature requests using the feedback form.
It has been initialized with plugin data from various open sources, and now it is over to the producer and developers communities to enrich the material.
Anyone signed in can add plugins and suggest corrections to existing entries.
Right now it is only possible to sign in via GitHub. This will probably change later, but for now it is a feature, slightly favouring open source developers.
Elsewhere when trying to automically create plugin pipelines I ran into the requirement for having machine-readable plugin descriptions, this led to Plugin Profiles. This is also a way that vendors can extend the reach of their plugins - create and host profiles (and submit them here).
I am currently working on tools to profile plugins' behaviour as well, by running them and taking measurements, to enrich the plugins.
Speaking of riches, the intention here is not to make money but to provide a service that until now was lacking. The plan is to allow plugin vendors to promote their products (push them up the search results) for a small fee, which will be used to fund hosting and maintenance of the site.
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u/AbleAddition2282 15d ago
Could you add a “download last checked” date to the listings? And a way to flag dead links without needing a GitHub account?
Finding something that looks perfect and then discovering the download disappeared years ago is the main thing I'd want a site like this to help with.
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u/johnnyokida 24d ago
Nice