March 17, 2026
Removing GateKeeper from VST Plugins
- Ableton
I purchased a new MacBook Pro and stumbled upon some issue while trying to get the legendary “RaveGenerator 2” Plugin running on the machine.
When trying to load the plugin, the macOS Gatekeeper feature blocked the plugin.
You can bypass this behavior for just this one plugin by running the following command.
sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/RaveGenerator2.component
This will disable Gatekeeper for the plugin, but not for your entire machine, which will keep your machine secure 🙂
See https://blog.wavosaur.com/rave-generator-2-in-mac-os-c-catalina-works/
End of note
That was a full lap through the idea.
If this resonated, there is more where this came from.
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