Most plugins/software will allow more than one installation (Waves aside), but in cases like that, I transferred the license to the laptop.
Further, what I meant by "I put every plugin / software application onto the laptop that was originally on my iMac desktop" was that - every plugin that was installed on my iMac was then installed on my Macbook, upon using the Macbook as my main means of music creation. Since re-starting Live, I now see the Waves plugins in both the VST and AU folders (was only AU previously.)Īs far as the Waves plugins go - yes, I most definitely have Waves Central and transferred my licenses from the iMac to my Macbook Pro.
I think that the issue was my not having "Use VST Plug-In System Folders" selected. Trust me - I was/am a bit confused myself. Hopefully I'll be back to normal, once I relocate missing samples and/or save new versions of my projects. but the settings, sample star points, etc all seem to have loaded properly This worked! Now I just have to go and relocate every single missing sample. It was only showing up as an AU plugin, so long story short, I opened the installer and then installed the VST version (along-side the currently installed AU version). The only issue I still had was with Serato Sample.
I did look under Preferences within Live and noticed that I did not have "Use VST Plug-In System Folders" selected! I honestly don't know if I ever have? I did update to version 10 recently, so maybe it defaulted back to that being unselected? Regardless, when I turned that ON and Rescanned the plugins, all of the Waves plugins now loaded fine! I was afraid this wouldn't work, since they apparently are all installed under Macintosh HD -> Applications -> Waves (as this is where it made me install.), but alas, no worries at all. however, that is the installed format on both of my Macs - and they have always worked just fine: I came across an article on Ableton's site saying that Waves plugins are NOT supported in the AU format.
I am on a Mac, so was to understand that is preferable (as long as I'm not collaborating w/ PC folk)? In regards to the possibility of having used AU plugins - most of them are. So, I have made some progress since reviewing your responses and doing a bit of research. Thanks for the replies and sorry for the delayed response on my end (didn't realize I needed to subscribe to my own post in order to receive new post notifications.) You would think that this would be a common issue and/or easily rectified, but I can't seem to find any solutions. Further, on Serato Sample, I have to re-load the samples I had chosen (not to mention their key, the same slice settings, etc.) which is impossible.
I know that I could just re-load the plugins in question, but patch selections / presets are lost if I do this. which leads me to my question - is there ANY way to relocated the plugins without losing my settings? The pop-up box reporting the missing plugins does NOT give the option to locate these "missing" plugins. I think that the issue is the plugins have a different file directory path than they did on my desktop, so Live is not finding them. I tried to Re-Scan plugins from within Ableton Live before even opening a project, to see if that would update things, but no luck.
Some Waves plugins, Serato Sample, etc etc.
Unfortunately, I went to open a project created a few months ago - on my desktop - and upon loading the project, it says "The VST Plugin Could Not Be Found" next to a list of a few plugins that ARE on my laptop. I put every plugin / software application onto the laptop that was originally on my iMac desktop - so I figured there would be no issues. I have historically created all of my Live projects on my iMac, however, I recently got a newer Macbook, so I've been creating solely on that. I've tried searching on this topic without much luck, so figured I'd start a new post in hopes that someone might be able to help.