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Hi!

I want to be able to plug Massive (regular, trial version) into Ableton Live, (regular, trail version), but I've had no luck. How can I make this work? Is this even possible when using the trial versions of these products?

So far I've tried going into the Plugin section of Ableton, via the plugin icon on the left side of the screen, but I've only messed things up for myself. Now when I click on that plugin icon, all that appears is a label that says "Plugin devices", where underneath it is nothing, and I can't get it back to how it was! How can I get the plugin feature back to it's default state and then successfully plug Massive into Ableton?

I use Windows Vista Home edition.

Thanks for reading.

Bump. Anybody?

under preferences, in the "file/folder subsection, there is a "plug in sources" section, make sure the "use vst plug in system folders" option is on, and try "rescan plug ins" and see if that sorts it. if not, you might look in your plug ins folder to see if massive.vst is even in there.

antarktika wrote:under preferences, in the "file/folder subsection, there is a "plug in sources" section, make sure the "use vst plug in system folders" option is on, and try "rescan plug ins" and see if that sorts it. if not, you might look in your plug ins folder to see if massive.vst is even in there.

Thanks for the reply! I did what you said and the "use vst plug in systems folders" button is set to "On", and I tried a rescan but nothing shows up. How do I get massive.vst into that folder? And I assume you mean the folder of "VST Plug-in custom folder"?

it's different for me because I'm on a mac, but it looks like on windows, you should have a VST folder within the Live application folder, so if it is not defaulting to that folder, use that browse button in the set custom folder area to try to hunt down the vst folder, and look in that folder to make sure that massive.vst in contained inside it, then rescan.

antarktika wrote:it's different for me because I'm on a mac, but it looks like on windows, you should have a VST folder within the Live application folder, so if it is not defaulting to that folder, use that browse button in the set custom folder area to try to hunt down the vst folder, and look in that folder to make sure that massive.vst in contained inside it, then rescan.

I have the program Massive saved on my Desktop, but when I browse for it in the "VST Plug-In Custom Folder" in Ableton, I can't find Massive. Why is this? Am I trying to find a specific file that is INSIDE of the program Massive, or something? I dunno...

massive operates both as a standalone and as a vst plug in, you specifically need to have installed the vst, and that file, called massive.vst should be in a folder within your ableton live application folder.