Acustica Audio Midnight 2023 macOS

1. Download the Acustica Audio Framework for your respective OS from here (search it up)
- Follow instructions and make sure you codesign (when codesigning the Nebula.framework, you might get a "bundle format unrecognized" error. Simply step into the folder and codesign the internal content where possible.
- To avoid going through the hassle of codesigning each invidual file:
1. Open a text editor or an IDE such as visual studio code
2. Paste:

#!/bin/bash

# Loop through each file dropped onto the script
for file in "$@"; do
# Clear extended attributes
sudo xattr -cr "$file"

# Remove the com.apple.quarantine attribute
sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine "$file"

# Codesign the file
sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - "$file"
done

2. Save the file with whatever name and the .sh suffix (Ex: codesign_script.sh)
3. Open the terminal, drag and drop the script into it, and now you can drag and drop the
files into the terminal (which will concatenate the file paths to the script), and let it do its thing

2. Download each individual plugin, and install by:
- Copying the contents of each plugin format (component/vst/vst3), into their respective paths (Library/Audio/Plugins/<Components|VST|VST3> (Ex: copy the vst folder into the .../Audio/Plugins/VST (I have setup my folder structure so that its .../Audio/Plugins/VST/Acustica/Midnight) -> drop the vst folder in here, and also copy over the R2R folder into it (for the plugins that have it)

3. Codesign the content that was copied using the script. Rinse and repeat.

Greatly appreciate the plugins JammuAnd and R2R!

Not sure of your system specs, also pays to check the manual some of these AA plugs will only work on newer systems.

If you read instructions in download then works fine on Mac 12.7.1. and Logic Pro x 10.7.9

This might help -

Open Automator app

Select quick action

In “Workflow receives current” select files and folders

In “In” select Finder

Go to Library / Utilities in the Automator side bar and select “Run Applescript”

Delete the code and input :

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "Terminal"
        activate
        set filesString to ""
        repeat with file_ in input
            set filesString to filesString & " " & quoted form of (POSIX path of file_)
        end repeat
        do script "xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine" & filesString
    end tell
    return input
end run

Save as unquarantine.

Select the folder containing all the files that need to be unquarantined,

Right/ctrl click, select Quick Actions/unquarantined – everthing in that folder is now unquarantined.


I did the same for codesign using the steps above but with the code:

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "Terminal"
        activate
        set filesString to ""
        repeat with file_ in input
            set filesString to filesString & " " & quoted form of (POSIX path of file_)
        end repeat
        do script "codesign --force --deep --sign - " & filesString
    end tell
    return input
end run

And saving as Codesign.

Hello "tagitom",

I followed your method, which for me is by far the simplest, and everything works perfectly on Mojave/LPX.
For the record, I'm already using N4 with the framork that goes with it.

Thanks again for sharing your "tagitom" method
and thanks to "JammuAnd" for sharing it so beautifully

When I try to load a plug in it says "unable to load vst-2"

Yes, Junkcarlo is more dedicated to improving software protection, rather than functionality of the plugins.