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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?

Information on activating (and deactivating) plug-in sources can be found in the Ableton website sections on the VST Plug-in folder and Audio Units Plug-ins. If you install the plug-in while the program is running, Live will not detect your changes or implement them in. Hit (Command + Comma ‘,’) to open up the Ableton Live preferences. Or Simply click on Live in the top left hand corner and selected Preferences. Navigate to the File Folder Tab. The bottom part of the window will be a section called Plug-in Sources. Make sure Use Audio Units is on and yellow. If you use VSTs, make sure that. If using Audio Units (AU), enable the system folder. (Mac Only) Windows. Turn the plug-in folder off and on again. If you've verified that you've installed it to the correct folder, and that folder is active in Live's Preferences → Plug-ins, then disable the plug-in folder and re-enable it. How to load AD/AK in Ableton Live Mac OS. Click on Live in the main menu and select Preferences; Select the File Folder tab and make sure Audio Units are enabled, click to Rescan if the Audio Unit list is not automatically updated. Close the Preferences window, your XLN Audio plug-ins will now be available in the plug-ins list in the top left.

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:

Mixvibes dvs download. (for AU) Library > Audio > Plug ins > Component
(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.

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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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