Neither Reaper nor Kore can read shortcuts (I have asked for this to be added many times). Unfortunately that method only works with a couple of hosts (Live and Orion). Haha thanks junk, you're helping me to not look back and just sprint forward with REAPER + Maschine. Hmm so you basically create shortcuts of your dll files and place them all in a single folder and point your software to that folder? I'll have to try that for a temporary fix, but my compulsive personality has already decided for me that I will be reinstalling all my plugs in the near future. It's just sad that the folks at Ableton haven't caught on yet.Īnyway, limitations aside, when it works, it's a fun tool in a dj situation where you're doing remixes on the fly and yeah it has some cool things in the library here and there. A lot of people do the shortcut thing, where you have your vst folder contain shortcuts to actual plugin locations.

and If you've already installed your plugins to various folders before installing live, you're basically screwed. If you setup all of your plugins ahead of time to all be in one vst root folder with subfolders, you can kind-of get by with the path limitation, but it's just a bit of a headache if you don't want to do it that way. Ableton Live was my main DAW for a couple years. I wonder if the Live devs know that a simple thing like not allowing multiple plug-in paths is deterring users! (or at least one user) :( and now that I have Maschine, I might not even invest anymore time into learning Ableton Live. Ridiculous!!! In fact, it prevented me from fully exploring my 30-day demo.

:) After that, I set a couple paths, organize my plugins from within Reaper and all is well.Īnd ABLETON LIVE was the other software that doesn't allow more than 1 plug-in folder. To be honest, I usually go with default locations nowadays because I'm lazy and I just want to click next next next really fast when I install a plugin. Root vst folder with subfolders for X64 and X86 + the subfolders vst's typically create = good. Then you load up a project and see a billion 'can't find vst' messages. Especially when you have a ton of plugins that you can't organize in the host, so you end up making your own file structure that's all nifty, and then you have a situation where you need to wipe and install your OS again and you can't remember your old directory structure and you don't really want to point every plugin installation wizard (those that have them) to all these different folders. It boggles my mind actually, and it was one of the more frustrating limitations for me with Ableton Live. I have no idea why any DAW/Host would not allow multiple search paths for plugins. I second what Ollie suggests for that situation.

Where do i put dll files