Get FL Studio's plugin menu exactly how you want it, in minutes. Whether you haven't sorted it in years or you've just got a new laptop, it finds dead and duplicate plugins, then sorts everything into tidy folders by maker or type, in the best format for your computer. Preview it first, undo it any time.
This is FL Studio's plugin menu, the one you get from a mixer slot or the channel rack. Out of the box, it's every plugin you own in one endless list.
Sorting FL's plugin database by hand means dragging shortcut files around one at a time, for hundreds of plugins. Fruity Plugin Optimiser does it in minutes, your way.
Plugins you deleted ages ago, folders called "new stuff" and "temp", the same plugin in four places. Most producers never sort their plugin menu because it's such a slog. Run a health check, hit Fix, pick how you want it laid out, done.
Don't spend your first two days with it dragging plugins into folders. Install your plugins, let FL scan them, then let Fruity Plugin Optimiser build the whole menu for you, sorted by maker or by type, in the best format for your new machine.
By maker, by type or both. Your favourites at the top. Mono versions tucked away. The formats you want. Your menu, set up the way you work, in minutes. And if you change your mind, undo it in one click.
FL Studio adds every plugin you've ever installed, in every format, and never cleans up after itself.
Plugins you deleted years ago are still listed. FL checks every one of them, and they sit in your menus doing nothing.
Mono, Stereo, Mono-Stereo, 5.0, 5.1… Waves and UAD install a copy of every plugin for every channel layout.
Every plugin you own, in one menu that runs off the edge of the screen. Good luck finding the one you want.
"Effects 2" and "Generators 2" copies made by iCloud, OneDrive or Dropbox when two copies clash.
Point it at your Plugin database and it scores it out of 100, then lists exactly what's slowing you down: missing plugins, duplicate shortcuts, misfiled plugins, sync-conflict copies, empty folders and Intel-only plugins on Apple Silicon. Fix them one by one, or all at once.
Sort every plugin into folders by maker (FABFILTER, VALHALLA DSP, WAVES…), by type (EQs, Compressors, Reverbs, Synths…) or both. It keeps one shortcut per plugin in the best format for your computer, tucks Waves and UAD mono versions into their own sub-folder, and pins your favourites to the top.
The preview is a copy of FL Studio's own plugin menu. Switch between Now and After and click through the folders to see exactly what you'll get in the mixer and the channel rack, before anything changes on your computer.
Before every change it saves a snapshot of your plugin menus. Don't like it? Hit Undo, or go back to any earlier snapshot. Your plugins themselves are never touched, only FL's shortcuts to them.
Search everything FL knows about, see every format it's installed in, and spot what's missing.
Plugin filed under the wrong maker? Change it once and every format follows.
"Universal Audio, Inc." and "Universal Audio (UADx)" become one UNIVERSAL AUDIO folder.
Skip plugins you never use, Intel-only plugins, or plugins that aren't installed any more.
FL Studio's own categories stay as they are, or group FL's plugins into one IMAGE-LINE folder.
It finds FL's Plugin database for you, including iCloud and OneDrive Documents.
It's the folder FL Studio uses for the plugin menus you see in the mixer and the channel rack (Documents › Image-Line › FL Studio › Presets › Plugin database). It's full of small shortcut files, and it gets messy fast.
No. It only rearranges FL's shortcuts to your plugins. Your actual plugins aren't touched, and every change is snapshotted so you can undo it.
Just make sure FL has scanned your plugins (Options › Manage plugins › Find plugins). Close FL while you apply changes, then open it again.
Yes. It picks the best format for your computer: AU first on a Mac, VST3 first on Windows. You can choose another format or keep them all.
No. Pay once (£14.99) and it's yours. Your serial number works on 2 computers.
No. It's an independent app by KYXXX that works with FL Studio's plugin database.
Fruity Plugin Optimiser is one of a growing set of small apps for producers.
All producer toolsFL Studio is a trademark of Image-Line. Fruity Plugin Optimiser isn't made by or affiliated with Image-Line.