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Cabbage VST3 shows tiny black window in Ableton Live

#1

Hi everyone,

I’m having a strange issue when exporting plugins from Cabbage 2.9.0 to Ableton Live .

When I test my plugins:

  • Inside Cabbage they look fine.
  • With pluginval (the Tracktion plugin validation tool) they also render correctly.
  • But when I load them in Ableton Live (VST3), the plugin window shows up as a tiny black rectangle with no controls , as shown in the screenshot.

Even with the most basic example, the same thing happens. For instance, with this code:

form caption(“Cabbage”) size(400, 300), pluginId(“CAB1”), guiMode(“queue”)








In Cabbage and pluginval it opens as a 400x300 window as expected, but in Ableton it only shows a very small black box.

My questions:

  1. Has anyone else experienced this specific issue with Ableton and Cabbage-exported VST3s?
  2. Could this be a compatibility bug between Live and Cabbage VST3 plugins?
  3. Is there any extra setting I should add in the form or during export so that Ableton displays the GUI correctly?example
#2

You need to put your .csd file into the same location as the plugin. Cabbage automatically does this when it exports a plugin, but you probably moved it manually after exporting. It’s a common error.

#3

Perfect, that solved the issue, thanks a lot for the help! Time to keep experimenting.

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