My first VST is built but it does not show in Ableton, why?

[David Healey]

@Electrolove Yes, and

[Electrolove]

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[David Healey]

@Electrolove Did move your plugin from the Binaries folder the correct location on your system for Ableton to see it?

[Electrolove]

@d-healey From here...

...to VST3 Plug-In System Folders

[David Healey]

@Electrolove https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/115000171310-VST-plug-in-locations-on-Mac-OS-X-and-macOS

[Electrolove]

@d-healey Yes that is the path I used.

Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST3/test1.vst

[Lindon]

@Electrolove give each of your plugins a unique Name, Bundle Identifier and Plugin Code, also use your own Company, Company Code URL, etc. Then rebuild your plugin, move it and see if it shows up.

[David Healey]

@Electrolove Your plugin should have a .vst3 extension, did you export a VST3?

[Electrolove]

@Lindon Ok I see, where do I set VST3?

[David Healey]

@Electrolove project preferences

[Electrolove]

@d-healey It was the VST3 setting that was the problem. Now it appeared and worked as it should. Thanks to both of you for the incredible support. I appreciate it very much.

[aaronventure]

@d-healey this really should be the default, there's no point in it not being since you cannot get a VST2 license anymore. Just hide the old default (off) behind a preprocessor.

[David Healey]

@aaronventure Yeah I agree - @Christoph-Hart make it so :)

[Ben Catman]

@d-healey

Btw i found out that for Cubase you need to set the vst3 category, otherwise it wont work.

Cheers