One-Liner: list plugins used in your Ableton projects

If you are comfortable working at the macOS command line, here is an (irresponsibly long) one-liner you can use to list all plugins in use in your projects. You’ll need to have xidel available on your system, which can be installed from Homebrew.

find . -name "*.als" ! -path "*/Backup/*" ! -path "*/.*.als" -print -exec bash -c "gzcat \"{}\" | xidel -s --data - -e 'fn:for-each(//PluginDesc/child::*[ends-with(local-name(), \"PluginInfo\")]/Name, function (\$p) { fn:concat(x:cps(9), fn:upper-case(fn:substring-before(\$p/node-name(..), \"PluginInfo\")), x:cps(9), \$p/@Value) })'" \;

Here it is slightly expanded into a bash script for readability.

To use this, just navigate to your project directory in a Terminal window, then run the script, or paste and execute the command. See below.

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