Have you, or your installer, ever installed a VST or VSTi in the wrong folder? Ableton Live has a perfect and incredibly easy workaround!
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I have been getting a lot of pre-release VST & VSTi for testing and for making tutorial & marketing videos. It is awesome. However, sometimes the installers aren’t completely sculpted as they would be for an official release. One particular upcoming iZotope plug, which is absolutely going to blow you away, didn’t ask me where I wanted it to install the x64 and x86 VST .dll files.
It defaulted into the Steinberg folder. That isn’t where I keep my plugs. So, I tried to copy and paste all the .dll files on the off chance that might work. Sometimes it does. Like with smaller, less expensive plugs. Simply moving the .dll files around isn’t a problem. But, with the bigger more expensive plugs, like those from iZotope, you can’t do that.
On Windows, Native Instruments products are loaded in Ableton Live as VST plug-ins. On Mac computers, they can be loaded either as VST or AU plug-ins. Once the products are installed, Ableton Live must scan your plug-in directories in order to make them available in the Third Party Plug-Ins section of the Browser. Click File Folder on the left side of the preferences window. Make sure 'Use VST Plug-In Custom Folder' is set to 'On.' Click the Browse button to the right of 'VST Plug-In Custom Folder.' Choose your 32-bit VST Plugin folder. For example, in Ableton Live: Go to Preferences File Folder. Select the button Use VST Plug-In Custom Folders; Click Browse by VST Plug-In Customer Folder; In the window that opens, navigate to the folder where your VST plugin is located: C: Program Files Common Files Steinberg VST2 Equator for RISE x64.dll. There are a few things you can try. Click on the 'Home' icon in the Browse pane and then click on the Update Plug-ins button. Also, go to Options - Locations - VST Plug-ins and see what directory is listed under 'Locations.' Then you can go to your desktop and check to see if the plugins.
I didn’t want to uninstall and reinstall, because no one likes doing that. So, I did a bit of digging and found a simple solution.
All you need to do in order to have multiple VST & VSTi folders recognized and displayed in Ableton Live is create a short cut and drop it into the folder you have designated as you plug-in folder.
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My custom VST Folder Location in Ableton Live for Third Party Plug-ins
That is where I keep most of my plugs. So, what I did to get a second, unrelated folder and its contents to show up in Live is created a shortcut and dropped it into that folder. Then hit the “Rescan” button. BLAM-O!! Two VST folder locations recognized by Abelton Live.