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Musik Man · Post by **Musik Man** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:39 pm

to Anybody who is interested on Symbolic Links
first you need to put the .mse Library files in the Place were you want them to be:

Something Like:
Library/Application Support/Your Company name/your plugin Library Name/the.mse goes here

then you need an application to create symlinks something like “Pathfinder”
Link Here: https://cocoatech.com

now go to the folder where you already put the .mse library files
Highlight them right click your Mouse & Choose /Services/Make Symbolic Link

(like in this Screen Shot)

Screen Shot 2020-04-16 at 2.53.27 PM.png

After doing this you will get aliases with a symlink termination!
(like in this Screen Shot)

Screen Shot 2020-04-16 at 2.53.55 PM.png

Copy those files inside the Plugin where the original .mse area supposed to be
and remove the word symlink from the end of the alias
like with the first file in the Screenshot above rename it to "Fretless Bass.mse"

When the plugin will Load it will load the real library located at:
Library/Application Support/Your Company name/your plugin Library Name/the.mse

The advantage of doing this is instead of having the same library Copied in the 3 Plugins:
plugin.vst, plugin.vst3 and plugin.component "taking 3 time the space"

with symlinks inside the plugins pointing all to the same .mse library
you need the Library only once!
it will Save Space on the Hard Disk, Smaller plugin.pkg and smaller Download for the Customer

DopeSONIX asked me to do him Professional Installers for all his Plugin Library
i created installers for all of his Plugins 8 in total

To see what i did: Download my Mac and Windows Installers!

Download:
https://www.mbaudiolab.com/virtual-keyb ... -rage.html

Michel

BeatMaker_xyz · Post by **BeatMaker_xyz** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 3:30 pm

The installer has been a success, thank you very much Michel !!! Which program to create installers in Windows recommends, I will try to create symlinks in Windows

Musik Man · Post by **Musik Man** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 3:39 pm

For Windows i use Bitrock InstallBuilder but it is more Complicated and very Expensive!
https://installbuilder.com/

you will have to learn it Yourself
https://clients.bitrock.com/installbuil ... 01s01.html

Michel

BeatMaker_xyz · Post by **BeatMaker_xyz** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:25 pm

Symlinks in Windows do not work as well as in Mac, I give up ..

BeatMaker_xyz · Post by **BeatMaker_xyz** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:39 pm

Well, it seems that this application is going well https://github.com/amd989/Symlinker/releases

Musik Man · Post by **Musik Man** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:42 pm

For Windows i did not Use Symlinks
here's what i did
i created a zip file with all the .mse inside
the installer copy's the zip file to the temp folder
then i add a function in each plugin to get that specific zip file
and unzip it to the Specific Plugin Folder

Check one of my Windows Installers
https://www.mbaudiolab.com/virtual-keyb ... -rage.html

JakeJ · Post by **JakeJ** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:16 am

Musik Man.. Wow, this is becoming mind-bending lol: Probably because I have never have created installers. Would it be to much to ask and possible to create a video walkthrough for creating installers for mac and windows for us?

Musik Man · Post by **Musik Man** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:13 pm

Hi Jake Sorry but i do not have the Time to do Videos
i gave a lot of information up to mow!
you should be able to learn by Yourself
all the Tutorials are on the web!

JakeJ · Post by **JakeJ** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:20 pm

Totally Understand Musik man! Thanks, I will contact shortly

I looked up the price for the windows installer creator (Bitrock) and it was kinda steep lol.

BeatMaker_xyz · Post by **BeatMaker_xyz** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:22 pm

well, after creating the installers, AU files work on all DAWs, VST and VST3 files work on all DAWs except Ableton Live 10, does anyone else have this problem with live?

BeatMaker_xyz · Post by **BeatMaker_xyz** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:25 pm

Michel I have tried to download some of your demos to test the VST and VST3 versions in Live, but the download becomes so slow that it is impossible, besides that his demos are huge xD

Musik Man · Post by **Musik Man** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 2:01 pm

Hi Manu
you will never get the VST and VST3 on Ableton Live 10 with v2.5.9 it does not Work!

you need to Create Your Plugins with v2.5.6 the VST and VST3
will Work with Ableton 10 on Catalina Ect.
My Plugins are not Big the Biggest is 2.46 GB
i just Created an Installer For Audiolounge "E Funk Synth" his plugin is 8.52 GB

it's Probably your internet Connection that is Bad
Try this one it's The Smallest i have 459.7 MB:
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1A5mWOn5 ... t=download

BeatMaker_xyz · Post by **BeatMaker_xyz** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 2:28 pm

Thanks!

I have 600 MB of symmetrical fiber

Musik Man · Post by **Musik Man** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 2:32 pm

Try again it Could be that because of Covid 19 there is to many people on internet and
Google Drive is probably having a hard time to Keep UP
same thing here sometime i have to download a couple of times to get the Download Completed!

BeatMaker_xyz · Post by **BeatMaker_xyz** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 6:34 pm

Ok, fixed, but ableton live is in conflict with the extensions, although one extension is vst and the other is vst3, it detects the 2 plugins as vst3, therefore if we have a vst3 plugin in the VST3 folder and the same version vst plugin in the VST folder, ableton does not show the 2 versions, if I delete the vst3 when rescanning, in the list of vst2 they appear with the vst3 extension, I don't know if I explain myself correctly, I think that it is not enough to rename the extensions.

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