For anyone reading this thread in the future, I've been having success using araelium package builder. So far I've had no issue installing to the users ~/library folder. There's a fully featured free trial (with a watermark), and the scripting language is javascript, so pretty familiar to anyone who uses hisescript during plugin development!

https://www.araelium.com/packagebuilder

Thanks to everyone who has replied to the thread and given helpful info!

@HISEnberg Doing this on windows is pretty easy with inno setup. In the main plugin installer, you can prompt the user to choose a location to install the audio samples, and then use a wildcard to generate a linkwindows file based on the location they chose. When the user opens the plugin for the first time it works as expected, without having to locate samples, be reloaded or fussed with.

Trying to do something similar on mac has been kind of a nightmare so far. The seemingly fundamental inability to install files to both /library and ~/library makes me think there's no single-installer solution.

Until I figure out an in plugin solution, I'm currently exploring the idea of having two installers. One for the samples (and linkOSX file), and one for the plugin.

@Lindon

What was your approach to making an in plugin setup for samples?

Any advice or suggestions would be helpful, since I'm exploring a similar route.

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for some advice on best practices for making a mac installer.

I recently completed my first sampled instrument plugin, and on windows I've created a very elegant installer. Using Inno Setup, I've created an installer that prompts the user to select a sample folder, then automatically unpacks all the audio samples to that directory, and generates a link file in the users appdata folder. When the plugin is launched for the first time it works seamlessly, without the user needing to worry about unpacking the samples, or locating the sample folder manually.

How do I make something similar for mac? Is there a preferred way to handle unpacking audio sample libraries? Is there a preferred way to generate a link file in the users Application Support folder?

I know that because of how permissions work on macOS I probably wont be able to replicate what I've done on windows, but any advice would be extremely helpful. Even just pointing me to a program that can create mac installers would be helpful.

Thanks.

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Hello everyone! I've been lurking on the forum for a while, and finally have something to post about!

I'm currently making an SSL style EQ plugin, and I'm curious if it's possible to get a wider bell curve Q shape than what's available by default from either the parametric EQ effect, or from the svf_eq. Right now the 0.3 Q setting is still much narrower than the Q shape on the SSL consoles I've tested.

I'm currently exploring wonky solutions to this problem like using parallel bandpass filters. Any advice would be super helpful!