Using AU and VST plug-ins on Mac. Live Versions: All Operating System: Mac AU or VST? How to install VST or AU plug-ins on Mac; AU or VST? Live on Mac supports both the Audio Unit (AU) and VST2.

• Turn On “Use VST Plug-In Custom Folder,” then click the “Browse” button underneath and point to the folder where your plugins are stored. On a Mac, the process is similar. Go to Live, Preferences, File Folder. On Mac OS, Ableton Live understands 2 different formats of third party plugins; Audio Units (AUs) and VSTs.
• Now we can locate the instrument or plugin that we’d like to add to Sunday Keys. If you’d like to load in an AU or VST plugin navigate to it within the “Plugins” category of the browser. If you’d like to load in an Ableton Live instrument Preset or a sound from an Ableton Live pack, navigate to either of those places in the browser.

Add Vst Plugin To Ableton

Ableton Add Vst

Having the option to add more than one VST folder in the preferences would be great, Sonar has this feature (but I hate Sonar and it's practically the only thing I like about it) The advantage of having this feature is that you can add one VST folder at a time and Ableton would scan each individual VST folder. So if you have some plugins that crash on scan you could simply only add the folders with the working plugins. It's specially helpful when you have tons of VSTs installed. Scanning tons of VSTs is very time consuming specially when you have many that crash Ableton on scan.