I can find them in the File Explorer.....but I don't know how to get them in Ableton. I have NI Massive and FM8. Both are .dll files (i have no idea what dll files are). I got a shit ton of Live Packs and was able to just click and drag them into Ableton, not the case with the Plug Ins. Wat do, ILF?
MMM....nevermind. I put the plug ins in their own separate folder, and then went to preferences on Ableton and chose that folder. Yay! Only problem is that FM8 isn't showing up. I have an FM8.dll and an FM8FX.dll. Neither shows up in Ableton but both are in the designated folder I made. I'll keep dinkin' around.
So, once FM8 and Massive were installed. I'd move them from programfiles/data and move them to my music folder (system file), and only the Massive program would work as a plug in as well as a stand alone program. FM8 will not work at all when I move the folder it installed to (some where in program files/data can't remember) the music folder. So, I reinstallled FM8, and didn't move it this time and the FM8 program will work but not as a plug in. I moved the FM8 plugin (only the plugin) to my folder called MasterPlugins folder and it still doesn't show up in Ableton. I don't know what the heck is going on.
Just to give resolve: The plugin was a 32 bit program, and the Ableton I'm using is 64 bit. Therefore, INCOMPATIBLE. However, there are programs out there that you can buy that'll allow you to use 32 bit in 64 bit Ableton.
jbridge can make 64 bit copies of 32 bit plugins. There's a couple old ones I cannot do without. They will experience some crashes, but it is pretty rare (and doesn't crash ableton just stops the musics). I will be sad when I cannot use the NI B4 organ plugin anymore
