That's not working anymore in the recent versions of Live (Live 11.1 and newer) and in older versions it only works for VST2 plugins.
And thats the issue, why on earth remove this option and not put it back as normal setting?
It was Steinberg that thought it was a good idea, they made it part of the VST3 standard, they killed VST2 and forced other companies like Ableton (and all other DAW and plugin devs) to shift to a VST3-only future.
Im pretty sure VST3 plugins do not validate if they were scanned before they are opened again. So this has nothing to do with the VST3 format. Its just assuming everybody has a super fast computer, which scans 1000 plugins in 2secs. Can tell you even a newer one took a lot longer and this everytime. Why not save that time or why is there an db file? How about that:pottering wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 9:14 pmIt was Steinberg that thought it was a good idea, they made it part of the VST3 standard, they killed VST2 and forced other companies like Ableton (and all other DAW and plugin devs) to shift to a VST3-only future.
Plugin scanner in Live now works like the VST3 scanner, as it is now the default (as dictated by Steinberg, who controls VST, much like Ableton has to implement whatever Apple forces them to with AU and MacOS).
VST3 scanner works all the time, so there is no "startup scan" anymore, it is on all the time, that's why the options.txt option was removed.
Going back to how VST2 worked is not possible anymore, Steinberg doesn't allow it.
I simply make Plugin installing sessions. Where i mass install new plugins. Last time installed 20, delete a few. boom one hour gone, because i had to do a deep scan multiple times, beause of the duplicate issue with different versions.solar28 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 4:42 pmThis has nothing to so with Steinberg.
Ableton recently changed their scanning process. As a result, like the OP I have to wait about ten to 15 min before Ableton will pick up and finish scanning any plugin updates. Support said this is not a bug and is intended behavior. Love Live but because of this I have to choose carefully when updating any plugin because it's going to incur this gauranteed wait time.
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$executablePath = "C:\ProgramData\Ableton\Live 11 Lite\Program\Ableton Live 11 Lite.exe"
$process1Name = "Ableton Index"
$process2Name = "Ableton Plugin Scanner"
# Start Ableton Live
$process = Start-Process -FilePath $executablePath -PassThru
$processId = $process.Id
while ($true) {
$process1 = Get-Process -Name $process1Name -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($process1) {
# index seems to be the main problem
Write-Host "Killing '$process1Name' process with ID $($process1.Id)..."
Write-Host "You're good to go! If you need, stop the Plugin Scanner from the menu..."
Stop-Process -Id $process1.Id -Force
}
$process2 = Get-Process -Name $process2Name -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($process2) {
# Can't kill plugin scanner/pops up again
# Write-Host "Killing '$process2Name' process with ID $($process2.Id)..."
# Stop-Process -Id $process2.Id -Force
}
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
if (!(Get-Process -Id $processId -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
# The executable has exited, so break out of the loop
Write-Host "Live was closed. Canceling script."
break
}
}