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Fender Studio (formerly Studio One) plug-in issues

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If you moved the default VST3 folder location, the plug-in installer will not redirect to that location. You have to move the plug-in to your custom location. Please look in the default locations:

  • MAC
    • (VST3 and AU): '/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins'

    • (AAX): 'HD/Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins'
  • PC
    • (VST3): 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3'

    • (AAX): 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Avid\Audio\Plug-Ins'

If that does not work, try clearing the plug-in cache. Note that if you are still using Studio One, please amend the file path accordingly, whereever highlighted in bold below.

MacOS and VST2, VST3, and AU formats:

  1. Close Fender Studio.
  2. Using macOS Finder go to “~/Library/Application Support/PreSonus/Fender Studio/x64/” (without the quotes).
  3. Manually delete the PluginBlacklist.settings file (to delete the blacklist).
  4. Manually delete the PlugInScanner.log file (to force a complete new plug-ins scan).
  5. Re-open Fender Studio.

Windows and VST2, and VST3 formats:

  1. Close Fender Studio.
  2. Press Windows key + R.
  3. Enter “C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\PreSonus\Fender Studio\x64\” (without the quotes), and click on OK.
  4. Manually delete the PluginBlacklist.settings file (to delete the blacklist).
  5. Manually delete the PluginScanner.log file (to force a completely new plug-ins scan.
  6. Re-launch Fender Studio.

After deleting the plug-ins cache files, on the next run, Fender Studio will re-scan all of your VST2/VST3/AU plug-ins, and depending on the number of VST2/ VST3/AU plug-ins installed, the process may take several minutes.

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