For very specific uses, I now allow users to manually override the default Ableton Live paths for kits and samples. These options are not in the main UI, so you will need to edit these options to the config text file, as I explain below.
This is specifically for putting these files in very particular places, and NOT simply having your User Library location somewhere else like an external drive. For users that simply have a User Library in a different location, you can very easily set that up in the Kit Maker Preferences.
Note that this is not the standard way of making kits and the normal paths are highly recommended. This is for advanced users that want a custom setup. Test it with one sample pack and confirm your paths are working before making a ton of kits. If you can’t get it to work, remove the lines from your config or replace your config with your backup.
In Kit Maker’s menu, go to Help > Show Config/Settings file to find the file.
Make a backup by duplicating the file and banking it “configBACKUP.json.” You can later replace the file if you need to get things back how they were.
Edit the original config.json file in a text editor (a raw text editor like Notepad or Textedit, or Sublime or Vs code, it should remain a .json file). You will already have the “adgUserLibrary” line, so leave that alone, but press the Return key after the comma. Paste in the two new “PathCustom” lines below it so it looks like the example below. In the path area of both new lines, write/paste in your exact path you are using for your “Imported” folder (for the samples) and the “Instruments” folder for the presets.
Make sure all the quotations and commas look like the example.
IMPORTANT: If you add these lines, the “adgUserLibrary” path in the config (and your User Library location in Kit Maker preferences) will be completely overwritten by these new “adgPath” lines. These lines override everything else.
MAC config file
“adgUserLibrary”: “/Users/grayson/Desktop/User Library”,
“adgSamplePathOverride” : “/Volumes/Primary/Folder/Samples/Imported”,
“adgPresetPathOverride”: “/Volumes/Primary/Folder/Presets/Instruments”,
WINDOWS config file
“adgUserLibrary”: “C:\\Users\\grays\\Desktop\\User Library”,
“adgSamplePathOverride”: “C:\\Users\\grays\\Desktop\\Stuff\\Folder\\Samples\\Imported”,
“adgPresetPathOverride”: “C:\\Users\\grays\\Desktop\\Stuff\\Folder\\Presets\\Instruments”, Notes: The two paths can be in different locations if you want.
Make sure that your new lines are correctly saving in the config.json file even when opening Kit Maker. Sometimes it erases them when it opens, but if you can open Kit Maker and close it a couple times without the lines being removed, it should stick.
These override locations will not be revealed by the “Reveal Folders” buttons in the preferences.