VST3 not showing in Ableton Live and MAX

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Hello,
i’m new to Juce. I followed both beginner tutorials for setting up the environment and building the first simple vst3 audio plugin.
After compiling, the plugin can be loaded in Juce’s plug-in host. By double-clicking the device the “hello world” dialog shows up. so far so good.
When I copy the plugin into the default Vst3-Folder on my host/daw computer, Ableton Live is not able to scan it. It doens’t show up as an existing device in the VST3-Folder of Live. When I open Max 8 and try to load it into an vst~ object I get the error message: “no format VST3 exists”.
The environment seems to be set up fine. I can load the generated project. I can compile it without errors. I used the project-properties suggested in the tutorial:

  • Poject-Type: Audio Plug-In
  • Plugin Formats: VST3 (only)
  • Plugin Characteristics: Plugin MIDI Input, Plugin MIDI Output

The rest is on default, like suggested. After saving and opening in Visual Studio I immediately built the project without making any modifications to it. I tried with both, debug and release configuration.

my environment:

  • Windows 10 Pro 1809
  • VS 2019 16.3.5 (latest)
  • Latest Version of Windows 10 SDK
  • Juce 5.4.4
  • Ableton Live 10.1.3
  • Max 8.1.0

Does anybody know how to fix this problem?

thanks and regards
NBT

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Hello,
I don’t know exactly what the problem was, but after a fresh installation of juce (and an update from 5.4.4 to 5.4.5) it works, now.
regards
NBT

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For future reference, it’s worth setting Live as the default debug application in your VS project setting and do all your testing with the debugger. Then you’ll have a much better picture of why it might not work. The debugger will save you endless hours of time-wasting in the long run.

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Thanks for this advice. Is there a tutorial how to do that? I’m not only new to Juce, but to C++ as well.

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Don’t forget to set the plugin location in the host before trying to run the plugin through the debugger. Here’s the steps you can follow to get started.

pluginDebug
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Btw, I generally always use Reaper to test my plugins because it’s the bomb when it comes to plugin development :wink:

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Still, it would be advisable to use at least one other host for testing too… :wink: Reaper has its own idiosyncrasies.

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Of course, this is always good advise!

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Works!
I appreciate your advices & help.