This is probably the most noob of noob questions so please go easy on me. I’ve literally just gotten into this.
I successfully made a VST3 plugin and sent it to a bunch of folks to try but it didn’t work for any of them…Mac or PC. I came to understand that they need to have Csound installed on their system. Is there a way to make a VST that works like most of the ones out there, where you just put it in the VST3 folder and off you go?
Hi @jmerdsoy welcome to the forum. You can have your installer install Csound when your users install your plugins. That’s the simplest thing. You will also need to export on your target platform. You can’t export on Windows and expect it to work on Mac, but you probably already know this.
You can also relink to Csound on macOS and have your plugin pick up the Csound that is distributed with your plugin, no need to install Csound system wide. Look for posts with MacOS distribution in their title for details.
The pro build of Cabbage embeds Csound so you don’t need to do this. But honestly, it’s not that tricky to make sure Csound is installed.
Thank you! Oddly enough, I can’t seem to find anywhere that explains how to do this properly. I’ve tried a few methods that don’t work. Perhaps I’ll upgrade to Pro.
This detials the hoops you need to jump through to distribute stuff on MacOS. You’ll need to pay Apple for the privilege.
Apple. I grow less and less fond of that company every day.
Thank you kindly for all your help, I really appreciate it!
Yeah, they really take the fun out sharing things for free. 
