Im sure like most of you we download things from sister site. Some things come as individual vsts, au, etc.

Also some things come as multiple .pkg files. I "vibe coded" a universal installer that you can dump a bunch of these files into an area it will install them all into their proper directories codesign and do all the junk we have to do to make them work all within a few clicks.

Im calling on the community to help me make this better. Its mac only for now but PC might work well.

Right now you can dump any mac plugin file into it. (ill add AAX)

1. add plugin extension picker
2. directory import

But id love some feedback and some things you would want in this. Im going to make it open source and free. Here it is so far. Ill update the github with all installs soon.

 

Spoiler: Source - TwatGPT

WINDOWS PLEASE!!!!!!!

 

let me work out this mac one rn then ill do pc for sure! Ill do custom install locations for it i think this is one of the things PC users would like.

 

Does it really work? Let's say I want to install the entire Arturia collection (44 installers) avoiding the usual torture of going through each individual installation: is this possible with your app?

 

Can't wait to try this, awesome idea !!

 

awesome idea

 

I've been using installpkg longer than I can remember
https://github.com/henri/installpkg
It's about 10 years old, but if it ain't broke

A version with a GUI would probably make a lot of people happy!
Especially those who don't like diving into a CLI.
You could try leveraging it to help with getting this dialled in!

 

holy smokes!! i wish github had a better search engine. Thank you for sharing this! I will implement it to the codebase right now!

 

yes!! this is why im making this. I have formatted my computer many times or updated versions from sister site. Just time consuming and clunky. Doing the same 10 steps per install for a bunch of files. Codesign, batchmod, permissions reset.

Trying to streamline that process to a drag and drop and install.

 

Some updates this am:

- Plugin type selector Support for: .component, .vst, .vst3, .aax, .app, .pkg (aka presets and other junk)
- Custom install folders
- Cleaner UI/UX (dark mode soon)
- Added the repo that @nishyp suggested

Its still super buggy. Im gonna try to get those bugs ironed out before I post. Im also going to open source it because I "vibe coded" this and its def gonna have issues.

UPDATED UI SCREENSHOTS:

 

WINDOWS ???

 

Hoping there are other coders or vibe coders on this forum that can help me with this. Selfishly gonna tackle this mac one first. Also feel free to steal this idea and vibe code a windows one yourself you might know the pain points that I dont when it comes to what PC users need.

 

Sir, you're a genius! I've been waiting for a utility like this for years. This app should be pinned on page 1 of the AZ forum

 

Just started working on a windows version. So far so good. This was a great idea!

 

LFG!!!! Stoked!

 

once its working ill def post it on AZ. its super clunky rn. every pkg is different. Im considering going the pacifist route to treating the .pkg like a zip.

 

Do you use Suspicious Package? It only does .pkg files and not disk images; but if you could use some of the more useful functions as "inspiration" from that might be pretty cool.

If you want to look at the Apple Silicon version of a nice Codesigner/Dequarantine app you could look at Sentinel.

Some lipo and file command functions to easily remove intel slices of U2B plugins could be another nice addition.

A Permissions manager set of options would be nice. You would want to include functionality for .sh and .command files for running patches, so a little Chmod +x might go a long way there.

Add Kontakt library function? ;)

They wouldn't need to be very full featured options, more like a "lite" version. I'd think you want to get rid of the need for all other installation tools so this actually replaces others for at least everyday use. You could probably even include a add to firewall block list function; but that would maybe raise a few eyebrows. Maybe.

 

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For mac this is freakin brilliant but for windows it only makes sense for single file plugins (*.dll, *.vst3, *.clap) without libraries etc.
or "foldered" plugins (where the name of the folder is recognized as the plugin file name in your DAW).

That's because not every installer has a silent option and in a lot of installers there are options you might want to take a look on
before installing blindly. For such a tool you'd have to analyze every installer to get the options right so it doesn't accidentally
make the plugins presets unusable for previous versions or remove plugin formats (vst2 or 32bit plugins) because the dev decides to
or install copy protection stuff you'd usually deselect or delete your custom presets because the updated version uses a new file format,...

So in my opinion a windows version isn't worth the time... even if I'm a 100% windows user.

 

I made two programs. One scans the plugins folder and generates an .ini file with all the exes. Then the installer reads the .ini and installs all the plugins in silent mode. Some installers dont support that, so you may have to exclude them in the exclude wildcard text box.

 

Ye but that would ruin the reason for such a tool on windows.

I wrote several scripts to automate installing all the tools/programs I need after reinstalling the OS.
If any of the installers change or compatibility breaks, the scripts have to be updated manually.
Therefore for my basic plugins (about 120) I wrote an installer that does everything for me but first
I had to analyze, monitor & unpack almost 70 installers and I have to do that again for updates.
It's just complicated on windows.

But for placing plugin binaries or replacing them with cracked binaries (like in Bubbix releases),
such a tool could save quite some time.