Scene Deck

A music plugin organizer. By Nirvaudio

Scene Deck started as a simple frustration: after collecting hundreds of audio plugins, I could no longer remember what half of them actually did.

Scene Deck is a desktop utility for musicians and producers with large plugin collections. It turns a long list of vaguely named plugins into a searchable, categorized library, then lets you build creative scenes and decks from that library.

Use it as a straightforward plugin browser, or go deeper: organize plugins by category, mood, song, genre, workflow, or full production idea. For DAWs that support DAWproject, Scene Deck can export scene scaffolds so your plugin choices can move closer to the actual music-making process.

What It Does

Scans common plugin folders

Combines VST2, VST3, AAX, CLAP, AU, and LV2 files into product records

Lets you assign categories, tags, notes, URLs, images, and presets

Builds scenes from product, category, and tag rules

Exports scene scaffolds as DAWproject files

Stores data locally in SQLite

What It Does Not Do

It does not host or load plugins

It does not replace your DAW’s plugin browser

It does not require cloud sync or an account

It does not use AI in v1

Workflow

• Scan Plugins.
• Apply suggested categorizations (if you want). This step uses a rule based system to try and guess some details about the plugin.  
• Go through uncategorized plugins and sort them. This step requires some work, but it will be worth it when you can utilize you whole collection. Scene Deck provides some basic categories, but allows for a fully customizable category tree.
• Organize plugins into scenes. Now that the hard work of categorization is done, use your creative side to organize plugins into sound-scenes that capture a mood or specific idea.
• Use your scenes to browse and spark ideas or use scenes in decks to assemble something bigger.
• When you want to make use your ideas, export the results to the format that is most useful.