Installing LSP Plugins on macOS

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Installing LSP plugins on macOS

Hey, since my main studio PC moved to mac, I missed these. Even with a swathe of commercial plugins, these are still a great tool.

I thought it was going to be hard.

  • **Download the source ** from (https://lsp-plug.in/)
  • Move the archive out of Downloads into your source directory. (mkdir ~/src , if you don’t have one)
  • Unpack it — cd ~/src, then tar -xvf lsp-plugins-src-1.2.35.tar.
  • Install the build dependencies — brew install make cairo freetype pkgconf php git.
  • Configure the build — cd lsp-plugins, then gmake clean, then gmake config. The features line should show clap, lv2, vst2 and vst3.
  • Build it — gmake. This takes a while; leave it running.
  • Install it — sudo gmake install. It asks for your password.
  • Scan and restart — in Ardour: Preferences → Plugins → Scan, then restart. The LV2s need it.

Check out my blog page on Audio Mastering Blog install-lsp-plugins-on-macos

Also up on my youtube channel … next video is plugging Ardour . (Over and above all the reverse engineered rubbish)… Actually that was recorded first - but my editing workflow put the LSP one up first.

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