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- Jan 31, 2012 Installing VST Plugins Ableton - Mac Discussion of music production, audio, equipment and any related topics, either with or without Ableton Live 2 posts. Page 1 of 1.
- If you're unable to find your iZotope products within Ableton Live, you can try the steps below to locate them: 1. Rescan your folder. To perform a rescan, open Ableton Preferences and head to Plug-ins (10.1 and later) or File/Folder (All versions until 10.1) and click the rescan button under 'Plug-In Sources'.
- Using Waves plugins with a custom VST folder. A special file called a WaveShell is installed to the default plug-in folder. However if you're using a custom VST folder then you need to locate the WaveShell file and move it to that folder. See our dedicated article: Using Waves plug-ins with a custom VST folder.
Ableton comes with an impressive, diverse and extremely usable set of instruments, effects and samples. However, at some point you will almost certainly want to install 3rd party plug ins to get that sound you need.
How to locate plug-in files in local VST folder on mac? I have read an incredible amount of unanswered inquiries about locating the plug-in files, and i'm also dealing with the problem of locating it in order to install, manage or delete files.
Luckily for you, the process of adding 3rd party plug-ins on a Mac is extremely straight forward. It is literally a case of copying the plug in files into the Mac plug in directory. Once this is done Ableton will automatically find your plug-ins ready to use.
Where is the Ableton Plug ins folder?
The truth is there isn’t one specifically for Ableton, it’s a shared plug ins folder in you Mac Library. By default the folders used to contain plug-ins, and where you need to copy them to, are:
(for AU) Library > Audio > Plug ins > Component
(for VST) Library > Audio -> Plug ins > VST
(for VST) Library > Audio -> Plug ins > VST
Setting a custom plug in folder
In Ableton there is also the ability to set a custom location for your plug ins folder. This is handy if you have multiple DAWs installed on the same Mac, or if you just want to use a different hard disc, perhaps a solid state to run them from.
In the Ableton top menu go to:
Ableton 10 mac os crack. Preferences > File Folder > VST Plug-In Custom Folder
Make sure to enable the feature, and you can now copy plug ins to any location you like.
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I installed Absynth 3 & Korg Legacy, and I set the path ibrary/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST in mac, buy it said 'You have selected afolder inside of a folder tat Live automatically scans for you. your selection will not appear as a custom folder. Scanninf of this folder is turned on and off using the Use VST Plug-ins in System Folders option n the Plug-in Preferences.'
I tried move the folder around, and rename the folder, no luck..
I just switch to mac and my current Live version is 5.2b8, before, I use PC, everything was perfect.
Could someone help me please, and sorry about my English, I from Taiwan, thanks
How To Add Plugins To Ableton 10
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My System
IMac Intel core duo MAC OS x 10.4.5