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Get unsigned VSTs and AU plugins to work with MacOS Catalina

Unsigned VSTs etc get flagged by the MacOS Gatekeeper when Ableton scans the plugins. You can't do the right-click open trick to bypass an app from an unknown developer (since VSTs aren't applications), so do this instead:

sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/unsigned.vst

or

sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/unsigned.vst

or

sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/unsigned.component

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