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Installing the ++Audio plugins

These plugins are free and unsigned. macOS and Windows will both warn you once because the builds are not signed with a developer certificate. That is expected. Here is the shortest path through it on each platform.

macOS (Apple silicon and Intel)

You get two files in each release. Use the installer unless you have a reason not to.

Option A: the installer (recommended)

  1. Download PlusPlusAudio-<version>.pkg (all three plugins) or a single <Plugin>-<version>.pkg.
  2. Double-click it. macOS will say it "cannot be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software" or that it is from an unidentified developer.
  3. Open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down to the Security section, and click Open Anyway next to the message about the installer. On macOS 14 and earlier you can instead right-click the .pkg and choose Open.
  4. Run through the installer. It puts the AU in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the VST3 in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3. Nothing else is written.
  5. Restart your DAW and rescan plugins if it does not pick them up. Logic and GarageBand find AUs automatically; Ableton, Reaper, Bitwig and others use the VST3.

Files installed this way are not quarantined, so the DAW loads them without any further prompts.

Option B: the zip

  1. Download and unzip PlusPlusAudio-<version>-macOS.zip.
  2. Copy the .component files to ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the .vst3 files to ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3. (~/Library is hidden; in Finder press Cmd-Shift-G and paste the path.)
  3. Because these files came from a zip, macOS has flagged them as quarantined and the DAW will refuse to load them. Clear the flag in Terminal:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Rubbadub.component ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Smear.component ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/CrazyVerb.component
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Rubbadub.vst3 ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Smear.vst3 ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/CrazyVerb.vst3
  1. Restart your DAW and rescan.

If Logic or GarageBand still do not show the AUs

Open Terminal and run killall -9 AudioComponentRegistrar, then relaunch the DAW. That forces macOS to rescan the Components folder.

Windows

  1. Download and unzip PlusPlusAudio-<version>-Windows.zip.
  2. Copy each folder inside VST3\ (Rubbadub.vst3, Smear.vst3, CrazyVerb.vst3) to C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\. Windows will ask for administrator permission.
  3. If SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC" when you first run the zip or a DAW loads the plugin, click More info then Run anyway.
  4. Rescan plugins in your DAW.

Uninstalling

Delete the .component and .vst3 bundles from the folders above. The plugins store nothing else on disk.

Something not working?

Open an issue at https://github.com/AdamSomers/plusplus-audio/issues with your OS version, DAW, and what you saw.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/AdamSomers/plusplus-audio/commits/v2.0.0

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