s3g-dsp

Install s3g-dsp CLAP Plugins

The 0.10.0-pre release has Apple silicon (arm64) Mac and experimental Windows x64 packages for REAPER. The Mac package is not notarized, so macOS requires one Gatekeeper approval for its installer. Windows uses manual folder installation.

Download and Install

  1. Quit REAPER, download the macOS CLAP zip from the GitHub releases page, and unzip it.
  2. Double-click Install s3g-dsp CLAPs.command in the unzipped package.
  3. If macOS blocks it, click OK, open System Settings > Privacy & Security, and choose Open Anyway. Confirm Open and authenticate if asked. This option is available for about one hour after the blocked launch.
  4. If prompted, allow Terminal to access the downloaded package, then wait for installation to finish.
  5. Start REAPER and rescan CLAP plugins if the new builds do not appear automatically.

See Apple's Open a Mac app from an unknown developer for the same approval process. If a binary is unavailable, see Building From Source.

Install Location and Safety

~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/s3g-dsp/

Back up your current plug-ins before upgrading. The installer replaces current canonical bundles and moves verified renamed/retired aliases—including copies in the former top-level CLAP location—to a timestamped backup. Other CLAP products are untouched.

The installer verifies each bundle, removes only com.apple.quarantine from its staged s3g-dsp copies, and preserves other extended attributes. It writes to the current user's Library without sudo and does not change global Gatekeeper settings or unrelated plugins.

Approval applies to the installer; REAPER should not show a separate Gatekeeper dialog for each plugin afterward.

Manual Installation

Use this only for a fresh manual install; it cannot migrate older top-level copies or retire renamed aliases. In Terminal, type cd followed by a space, drag the unzipped s3g-dsp-macos-clap-0.10.0-pre folder from Finder into the Terminal window, and press Return. Then run:

destination="$HOME/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/s3g-dsp"
mkdir -p "$destination"
for bundle in ./*.clap; do
  installed="$destination/$(basename "$bundle")"
  ditto "$bundle" "$installed"
  xattr -drs com.apple.quarantine "$installed"
done

Tracker Development Builds

Tracker is now a CLAP-only MIDI plug-in; there is no current Tracker standalone app to install. A newer development build may have features not yet in the packaged pre-release. On Mac, quit REAPER and preserve the previous bundle before replacing it with the complete s3g_tracker.clap bundle in the location above. Keep only one installed Tracker copy in the host's search paths, then restart REAPER.

The separate Windows x64 Tracker package is a test build, not an accepted release. Copy its complete folder to a location in REAPER's CLAP search paths, keeping s3g_tracker.clap beside Resources and retaining the license notices. Run the included run-windows-check.cmd where supplied; it checks the plug-in without installing it and does not replace host testing. Do not use the Mac installer for Windows.

The bundled fonts need no system-wide installation. Mac font resources live inside the CLAP bundle; Windows resources stay in the sibling Resources folder. See Tracker platforms and fonts and Tracker source builds for details.

Experimental Windows x64 Suite

The s3g-dsp-windows-x64-clap-0.10.0-pre-experimental.zip package contains 121 CLAP files exposing 128 plug-in descriptors, including Tracker with VIEW Live Code commands. Ambi Energy is the only excluded inventory entry; its renderer prototype is not a CLAP. This is an experimental prerelease, not a stable Windows release. Testing has used Windows 10 x64 and REAPER; Windows 11 is not yet validated. The earlier timestamped s3g-dsp-windows-clap-suite-x64-test-*.zip files are development snapshots.

  1. Save your work and quit REAPER. Extract the entire ZIP to a fresh test folder.
  2. Add that folder to REAPER's CLAP search paths. Keep the .clap files beside the shared Resources directory, with all fonts, atlases, and license notices intact.
  3. Avoid duplicates from earlier family/pilot ZIPs: remove those old test folders from the host's search paths or move them outside the scanned locations, retaining them as backups.
  4. Restart REAPER, rescan, and test in a disposable project. Use conservative monitoring levels, especially with sound generators and feedback processors.

PLUGIN_MANIFEST.tsv lists the expected plug-ins. SHA256SUMS.txt covers the extracted payload; the adjacent ZIP checksum covers the archive. run-windows-check.cmd checks Tracker only and does not install anything. Font installation is unnecessary. Do not use the Mac installer or merge only selected files into an older pilot folder. For reproducible builds, see Consolidated Windows Test Package.

If a Plugin Does Not Appear

For routing after installation, see Multichannel, Stereo Listening, or Ambisonics.