EAR Production Suite

Introduction

A collection of VST3 audio plugins, and an extention to REAPER for production of next generation audio content using the EBU ADM Renderer.

Download/Install prebuilt plugins

You can download prebuilt versions of the plugins and extension using the following links.

Releases: https://ear-production-suite.ebu.io/

After download copy the ear-production-suite folder and the ADM Export Source plugin to the correct folder as shown in the following table.

To install the extension you have to copy the dynamic library reaper_adm in the zip file to your REAPER resource path.

You can open the folder from within REAPER via

[Options] -> [Show REAPER resource path in explorer/finder...]

OS X Gatekeeper

On macOS Catalina or above you may experience plugin load errors due to the new Gatekeeper feature. You can disable Gatekeeper globally as per this site using this command:

sudo spctl --master-disable 

You can also manually validate the files after install with

sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine \
~/Library/Application\ Support/REAPER/UserPlugins/reaper_adm.dylib \
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/ADM\ Export\ Source.vst3 \
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/ear-production-suite/

Substituting paths as needed if you have not installed to the default locations.

Building from source

Using vcpkg and cmake presets

The recommended way to build the plugins is via CMake's preset mechanism. Before you can make use of that you'll need a few tools.

• Compiler with C++14 support
• CMake build system (version 3.21.0 or higher for --preset support, 3.8 or higher for manual build)
• Ninja

Note that 3.21.0 is a very recent revision of CMake, if you already have it installed you may need to upgrade.

MacOS

Build environment

The easiest way to set up a suitable environment is to follow the homebrew setup instructions. Once you have a working homebrew:

brew update
brew install cmake ninja

The following instructions are for an x64 (Intel processor) build. For ARM64 (Apple Silicon), use the macos-default-arm64 preset in place of macos-default.

Building

git clone --recursive https://github.com/ebu/ear-production-suite.git
cd ear-production-suite
./submodules/vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh # ensures vcpkg is setup 
cmake --preset macos-default          # configures project, downloads & builds dependencies
cmake --build --preset macos-default  # builds project

Installing

cmake --build --preset macos-default --target install

The location of the installed VST3 plugins will be

~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/

The location of the installed REAPER extension will be

~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/UserPlugins/

Windows

Microsoft Visual Studio 2019, installed with C++ support provides a suitable compiler.

You'll need to install CMake and Ninja manually, add their installation locations to your PATH. Then, execute the following steps from a Visual Studio x64 developer command prompt.

Building

git clone --recursive https://github.com/ebu/ear-production-suite.git
cd ear-production-suite
.\submodules\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat # ensures vcpkg is setup
cmake --preset windows-default         # configures project, downloads & builds dependencies
cmake --build --preset windows-default # builds project

Installing

From an administrator command prompt, run

cmake --build --preset windows-default --target install

The VST3 plugins will be installed to your Windows Program Files directory. The location of the installed VST3 plugins will be

<Program Files>\Common Files\VST3\

The REAPER extension will be installed to the AppData directory for the current user (as specified by the AppData environment variable, which will normally resolve to the Roaming subdirectory.) The location of the installed REAPER extension will be

~\AppData\Roaming\REAPER\UserPlugins\

Customising installation location

If the defaults do not suit you, they can be customised with two CMake variables

EPS_PLUGIN_INSTALL_PREFIX  # This specifies the directory containing the VST3 subdirectory
                           # to which the plugins should be installed

EPS_EXTENSION_INSTALL_PREFIX  # This specifies the directory containing the REAPER plugins subdirectory
                              # to which the extension should be installed

If manually set, both of these variables must end with a trailing /.

They should be provided at configure stage using CMake's -D flag (set cache variable). For example:

cmake --preset macos-default -DEPS_PLUGIN_INSTALL_PREFIX="/a/hidden/place/" -DEPS_EXTENSION_INSTALL_PREFIX="/top/secret/location/"