Although our plugins are code-signed and notarized with
Apple, you may receive a warning because they are not
downloaded from the App Store and may not be recognized as
safe applications. Gatekeeper has become much stricter in
MacOS Catalina (and later), causing problems especially with
plugins. Therefore, depending on your security settings, if
you try to install the plugins and a pop-up warning appears
("File damaged", "Cannot be opened", etc.), you can safely
enable these plugins.
For Gatekeeper, Apple has introduced quarantine
extended attribute called
com.apple.quarantine which is
set on every file downloaded
from the Internet. This
attribute is set by the browser
when you download a file with
it.
This is a quick review of what is shown in the video by
typing a command in Terminal according to the plugin format
to enable it:
1.- Type the following in the Terminal:
sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine
(note the space at the end)
2.- Click on
the
Library
folder.
3.- Click on
the
Audio
folder
4.- Click on
the
Plug-ins
folder
5.- Click on
the
Components,
VST
or
VST3
folder
6.- Drag and
drop the *.component, *.vst or *.vst3 plugin into the
Terminal window right after the space of the above command
(step 1).
7.- After
drop it, press your 'return' key
8.-
Authenticate with your admin password.
9.- Done. The
AU, VST and/or VST3 plugin should now be visible in your
DAW.
References
VST
The VST plug-ins usually go into the shared Library that's used by all
users. So the VST path is:
