This is just a quick, simple tip.
How to use vst plugins live. If it takes forever to scan plugins every time you open Live (due to certain poorly-coded plugins taking longer than others and bottlenecking the process), you can set it up to skip plugin scan. Keep in mind that if you do this, you’ll want to perform a manual scan (from preferences) any time you install or update any new VST plugins.

How to do it?
Add “-NoVstStartupScan” to your options.txt file

These are the best VST plugins that can be used with music software like FL Studio, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Reaper, and more. VST instruments give you additional sounds to create with like Pianos, Synths, Organs, and Bass. Common VST Plugin Questions: What Are VST Plugins? VST stands for Virtual Studio Technology. In Ableton Live, now go to Options Preferences Plug-Ins Plug-In Sources (at the bottom). Make sure 'Use VST Plug-In Custom Folder' is set to On. Make sure that the VST Plug-In Custom Folder is set to the same file path where you installed the Plug Ins, C: Program Files(x86) VSTPlugins or C: Program Files VST Plugins (depending on if you. In the Ableton Live preferences, go to the 'File Folder' tab. Ensure 'Use VST Plug-In Custom Folder' is ON, and click 'Browse' to choose the folder where all your VST plugins are. After that, click 'Rescan' to make sure Ableton Live has refreshed the list of installed plugins. On Windows, Oscillicious VST plugins install to 'C:VST Plugins'.

I used it without a problem on my iMac on Ableton Live 9, the DMXIS VST showed up in the Plugins folder. However on one of my Macbook Pros, running Ableton Live 9, Live cannot see the VST. I have even pointed LIVE to the folder with the VST's in it and it just doesn't show up. This is actually a Waves problem, not an Ableton problem.if you google for 'waveslib dll missing', you'll see that the same issue has popped up in pretty much all DAWs. I don't have any Waves plugins at the moment, but iirc the actual plugin that needs to be there is something called 'WaveShell'.or something along the lines.

But how to do that?
To familiarize yourself with Ableton’s options.txt, i will point you towards sonicbloom.net’s awesome article and series of videos on the topic.

That’s it! Live will no longer do a scan every time it opens.

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Ever since i applied this option, the stupidly vast size of my plugin collection doesn’t adversely affect my workflow. Live startup time is way snappier. When i occasionally buy or grab a free plugin, i just run a scan after installing it. Every once in a while you might have to do a “deep” scan (hold alt while clicking the scan button) if something doesn’t show up when it’s supposed to.
Note that from Live 10.1 onward, the plugin rescan button is located in the new dedicated plug-ins tab in Live’s preferences, rather than under file/folder, as previously.

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Hopefully this nifty tip is inapplicable to you, as that means your plugin scan is not bloated. However, for those of you that are having issues with slow startup of Ableton Live (or in case it eventually becomes an issue) this may be a viable solution.