Organize VST Plug Ins – Ableton Live 8

You can easily organized your VST plug ins into folders in Ableton Live 8. If you have a lot of plug ins then it this makes it much easier than looking at the entire list of plug ins in the browser. Simply go to your User Folder/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST and create folders for all of your plug in categories. Then copy the VST’s from your main VST plug in library, under the main Library folder on your HD drive, into the appropriate folder ( or you could move them I suppose, I prefer to copy/duplicate them in case something gets funny ).

You then have to go to the Ableton preferences menu and go to the Files/Folders area and Rescan your VST folders to make sure Ableton is seeing them correctly, hit the Rescan button.

If you have any issues, such as Ableton crashing on launch, you just have to move the VST causing the crash out of the folder / open Ableton / then move the plug in back into the VST folder and Rescan it in Ableton. This fixed any issues I was having. Hope this works for you!