Plugin store

The store installs LV2 plugins built for your pedalboard and checked to load in OpenRig. Every plugin in it is free software: its license and source are shown on its page.

The store: a search field, family filters with their counts, and plugin cards with a picture, the author, a one-line description, the license and a download button — The store lists every plugin of the catalog, with its family, license and author.

Installing a plugin

In the rack, tap + at the top right, then STORE on the Add effect page.
Search by name or sound, or pick a family (Distortion, Delay, Reverb…).
Open a plugin and tap Install. The download takes a few seconds on Wi-Fi.
Tap Add to the chain: no restart needed.

The store filtered by the search ZAM: 3 of 15 plugins, ZamComp, ZamDelay and ZamGate, with Dynamics and Delay filters — A search narrows the list and the family filters to what matches.

A plugin’s page gives its family, its number of controls, the download size, and where it comes from: OPENRIG BUILD means the catalog built it from the author’s source, whose address is shown.

The AmpVTS page: an amp picture, the GPL-3.0-or-later and OPENRIG BUILD tags, a description, the family, 11 controls, a 12.3 MB download, the source address and an Install button — A plugin's page, before installing.

The AmpVTS page once installed: an INSTALLED tag, and the Add to the chain and Remove buttons — Once installed: add it to the chain, or remove it.

The pedalboard needs a network to read the catalog and download plugins. The catalog is read when you open the store, at most every few hours; the refresh button at the top reads it again. Installed plugins work offline.

Updating and removing

When the catalog has a newer version of an installed plugin, its card says UPDATE and its page offers Update. Remove deletes the plugin from the pedalboard.

Removing a plugin does not break your presets: a block already in the rack keeps playing until you load another preset, and presets using the plugin keep its settings. Install it again and they come back.

Plugins you add yourself

The store is optional. Bundles you copy into /data/pedalboard/lv2 (see LV2 plugins) are always loaded, and the store never changes or removes them: in the store, they show as INSTALLED BY HAND or ON BOARD. After copying a bundle, tap the store’s refresh button to see it without restarting.

Safety and privacy

The catalog is signed: the pedalboard accepts only a catalog signed with the OpenRig catalog key, never an older one than it already has, and stops installing from a catalog that has expired.
Each download is checked against the size and checksum the catalog gives before it is unpacked, and a plugin can only write inside its own folder.
No account and no tracking: the pedalboard downloads the catalog and the plugins from GitHub and sends nothing about you.

A plugin shows as unavailable when it has no build for your board yet, or needs a host feature OpenRig does not provide yet.

Suggesting a plugin

The catalog lives in openrig-catalog. Open an issue there to suggest a free LV2 plugin; plugins without a published binary are built from their source by the catalog itself.