Fix VSTs in MacOS - Even Simpler Tutorial

Being a systems developer, it's sometimes easy to assume everyone knows about the terminal, file structures, shell commands etc. From the many questions and also helpful solutions that were posted in the comments, I decided to do this even easier tutorial. Hope you like it!

[xforby]

Thanks dude, you have just saved a Macbooks life that would have otherwise been launched from the 4th floor balcony.

[williamallkins]

thankyou so much, i was pretty disheartened by how confused i was from the last one but after this video my projects are finally back online with THANKYOU

[tijn]

Thanks for sharing! Time saving tip: you can drag all your vst's to the terminal at once!

[jimerwin]

Thank you for not just figuring this out, but also sharing with us. I used this same technique to unblock an AU plug-in a few minutes ago.

[alessandrog]

God Bless You!! 🙌 for some weird reason the old tutorial wasn't more applicable, the terminal wasn't recognizing the vst saying "no matches found" even after having just found the vst in the right folder...with this shorter method and the drag and drop thing, the terminal found exactly the vst this time fixing the problem. thank you!

[adamskaggs]

Howdy, sir. Put the information in and received an error message that says: Not enough arguments for option -d. Expected at least 2 but got 1. I think I put everything in correctly. Thoughts?

[CesarMalacon-wvki]

highly appreciated... Only solution to be found in the whole freking internet.

[ANiconRBLX]

it still says The operation can’t be completed because “Quiet Piano 2 Lite.vst” needs to be downloaded. it says that it expcted 2 and got 1 of something i dont know of

[strawberryshake]

Hi, does does work for Ableton 11 for me but when I try to open them in 12 Ableton crashes. Anyone with similar experiences and solutions?

[DonCartelTV]

Hi! Is there a way you can do this in OS ventura? Tried your method but unfortunatly my DAW( studio one) wont load the vst directory..only AU.

[fernnandojoao]

Hey my guy I have one question I just buy the plug from afroplug a Kompa plug vst for my Mac i use Logic Pro but I have a little difficulty to install when i unzip it and I click on the Mac folder to install is just empty white folder do you what the problem is how can I install property to my MacBook ?

[mauricetheinterloper]

I followed your steps and opened the terminal and typed in the command you have shown. Then I typed in my password and klicked enter, so that a new line has been created for a new command (which means it was successful I guess?). Next, I was opening reaper. While opening there was also the message that it was scanning for Synth1 vst, which was good I thought. But then when I wanted to make a new track and assign Synth1, it didn’t show up among the vsts. So I went to options -> Settings -> Vst -> Re-Scan. When clicking on re-scan, there are several options shown such as: re-scan vst paths (for new/modified plug-ins) or for example: re-scan vst paths (skip new/modified plug-ins). The last option is: Plug-Ins that failed to scan. When I click on that one, it is showing Synth1, the one I wanted to be integrated. You mentioned somewhere it has to be 64 and not a 32 version. That could be the issue, how can I check that, meaning which exact command do I have to type in? Or even better, where could I get the 64 version? Thanks a lot!

[MorisoniProductions]

thanks again for this simpler version. Much appreciated.

[icite]

it worked! awesome video, thanks for the help!

[jaymax]

Thank you for sharing this video 😊 I managed to use terminal to bypass the error and load the plugin inside of pro tools, however the actual plugin GUI is all greyed out when I open it in a session any thoughts?

[tuneboxmusic]

What if I had a project in my daw on windows with vst2 "Trillian.dll" - it will open in a same daw on mac but will chose a .vst file or it will not work? Thanks

[ArkimedVFX]

Unfortunately it doesn't work for me. I no longer get the permissions error but the plugin is still not working

[NightmareMusiK]

thanks a lot for this help
sir can you give us some helps with omnisphere 2 not loading sounds with the " Cannot load SoundSource "name of the sound" in Directory "Core Library". Try refreshing index in Browser
i really struggle with this problem

[willianhenrique]

Thanks for sharing! Can you teach how to reverse this process? Thanks

[haydenreynolds]

i get this response back from terminal "Not enough arguments for option -d. Expected at least 2 but got 1" not sure what to do?