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VST3 support from external drive/folder

+9 votes
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asked Jul 26, 2022 in Instruments and Plug-Ins by Kudelsky (580 points)
Hello
Please add support for VST3 plugins from external folder or disk.
For people who use e.g. Acustica Audio plugins (or other) , where one plug can take up 15GB, VST3 support from a different folder / drive than the system drive will be useful, saving the system drive in this area.
Please

5 Answers

–3 votes
answered Jul 26, 2022 by colinotoole (16,390 points)
You can already add custom locations. Information about this is readily available.
+1 vote
answered Dec 30, 2022 by wcookjr (2,030 points)
Yes. I want to be able to sort my VST3s into folders by company and whatever I feel like as well as have them on a separate hard drive. My OS is on an SSD with limited space and having to save them at C/Program files/common files/vst3 forces me to use up space on that primary drive

We shouldn't have to do workarounds just to be able to organize our workstations. If I missed something and this has changed with any new updates, please by all means let me know
–1 vote
answered Feb 24 by raweber (230 points)
Late to the party, but every DAW I've used you have to specify where you are putting your vsts if it's not the default system location.
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answered Mar 28 by patricklandreville (180 points)

Please allow for Vst3s to be accessed from folders on external or secondary drives. Studio One Professional is the only DAW that doesn't allow for this. Having the C: Program files/common files/vst3 as a default is fine as long as it is possible to move the Vst3s from that folder to one on an external or secondary drive and still be recognised by Studio One, just as all other DAWs will allow for. Will this be possible on future versions of Studio One? 

@colinotoole & @raweber One may add custom locations for Vst3s on external or secondary drives but Studio One will NOT recognise the new location and Vst3s in the new location will NOT be added to the browser. This ONLY applies to Vst3s and not to other types of plugins such as Vst2s which Studio One WILL recognise on external or secondary drives and WILL add to the browser

The feature I'm requesting has not been added as of the release of version 6. 

By the way I've never kept, nor have I known other professionals that have kept, plugins on their OS drive, it's generally simply not done.

–1 vote
answered Mar 30 by taylorhansen1 (410 points)

This has been possible forever. You can add as many custom folders as you want.

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