I created a vst and released it for free, I'm just a hobbyist and my work isn't worth charging for. I got a reply regarding my plugin. I was told it wasn't showing up in the plug-in folder of Ableton Live.

I ran a test here at my place with Ableton Live Lite 8 and everything worked perfectly. Has anybody had an issue like this with Ableton Live. If so, and you solved it, how did you do it?

Thanks for any and all help.

Chris

Post a link to the plugin, and I (and hopefully others) can test it out. It could be the user's fault, not having installed it correctly, or a potential bug, but you can't know without testing it on multiple machines, or trouble-shooting with that user.

Assuming that this is a 2.x plugin, it is necessary to export "main" or "VSTPluginMain" function from the module dll's depending on the exact vst version. Ableton may not be supporting both. I have tested a few plugins with Ableton, and if I recall correctly it didn't load every vst 2.x plugin I have tried, but I dont recall the details.

I started Live as Administrator, then I choose the VST path in the options menu and did a rescan. It was strange that I had to select the path again although the right path to the VST folder was already there. Was good for me hope that helps.

Here is the link for the download. It's VST 2.4.


http://littlestudiosonline.com/LSGate.zip

I will try to find out the user's specs on hardware and OS and Ableton Version.

Thanks,

Chris

Well, I can't seem to find any issues yet.

I was wondering if anybody with a Mac could run it through the ringer.

Also, opinions, do you guys think it's worth my time to submit it to KVR to be in the database? I'd like to get the word out quicker so people can snag it up. I created this plugin out of necessity, and I want to share cause I think others maybe looking for something like this.

Thanks

Chris

I still can't seem to reproduce the bug in Ableton Live 8 or in Ableton Live 8 Lite. I've tried over and over. The user who is reporting the bug is also on an XP machine. The machine I'm testing on is Windows 7 machine. Any chance this could be playing a role?

I've checked, I'm exporting out "main" "VSTPluginMain".

Here's the code in my LSGate.def file:LIBRARY "LSGate"
EXPORTS
VSTPluginMain
main=VSTPluginMain

Any thoughts. So far this is the only bug reported and I'd like to get it fixed for the guy wanting to use this plugin.

Chris

I think I got it. I was using the wrong Runtime Library apparently and XP machines weren't able to load the plugin.