Using Waves plug-ins with a custom VST folder. Live Versions: All Operating System: All All Waves plug-ins are installed to a dedicated folder called 'Plug-ins V10' inside the Waves parent folder (Windows: Program Files, Mac: Applications).These plug-ins should not be moved. Ableton Live 10 Suite includes: Ableton Live; 13 Instruments to try (including Wavetable, Operator, Sampler, Analog and more) 56 Effects for processing audio and MIDI (including Echo, Pedal, Beat Repeat, Amp, Vocoder, Glue and lots more) Instant mappings so you can use Live. Flux BitterSweet. Flux BitterSweet v3 is an audio transient management plugin, which is available in.
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.
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:
Preferences > File Folder > VST Plug-In Custom Folder
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Make sure to enable the feature, and you can now copy plug ins to any location you like.
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