Element seems to be using absolute paths, not relative paths, for vsts. Sharing presets won't work across systems.

[bendy101]

Hi,

Shared a preset with a friend and vst's were missing. He has the vsts installed. It turns out his vst plugin folder is just on another drive. There is no popup in Element to find the correct dll, so the settings are lost.

However on my freinds computer the folder stuctrue of his installed plugins is the same relative to the root folder of 'vstplugins' - so I would of thought that Element would at least check only relative sub folders to the default vstplugins folders.
It seems it needs absolute paths.

This is very bad design, most DAWs use the plugin ID so that project files are compatible across different computers, as long as same plugins are installed - but the actual plugin path doesnt matter.

I bassicaly cannot use Element now. Because I cannot share with others.....

[mfisher31]

Was reported on GitLab, and also in the current working milestone:
https://gitlab.com/groups/kushview/-/milestones/1#tab-issues