Vocal Apostle / Install
Install Vocal Apostle
About five minutes, once per computer. Vocal Apostle is not signed through Apple’s paid developer program yet, so macOS asks you to confirm that you want to open the installer. The steps below show you exactly where to click. Nothing about the plug-in itself is different.
You need macOS 11 or later on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac. Quit your DAW before you start.
Download the installer
Sign in to The Vault with the email you bought with and click Download installer. It saves the installer (a file named like Vocal Apostle 2.2.0 Installer.pkg) to your Downloads folder. Your licence key is shown there too, and it’s in your purchase email.
Open it once, then click Done
Double-click the installer. macOS says “Apple could not verify ‘Vocal Apostle … Installer.pkg’ is free of malware” (or that it’s from an unidentified developer). This is expected for an unsigned installer. Click Done, not Move to Trash.
Allow it in Privacy & Security
Open the Apple menu → System Settings → Privacy & Security. Scroll down to the Security section, where it says the Vocal Apostle installer was blocked, and click Open Anyway. Confirm with your password or Touch ID, then click Open.
On macOS 12 Monterey or earlier: Apple menu → System Preferences → Security & Privacy → General → Open Anyway. You can also Control-click the installer and choose Open. The Open Anyway button only shows for about an hour after you try to open the file, so if it’s missing, double-click the installer again first.
Run the installer
Click Continue, agree to the licence, then Install, and enter your Mac password. It installs the Audio Unit (Logic Pro, GarageBand), the VST3 (every other DAW) and a standalone app. To install only some of them, click Customize before Install.
Open it in your DAW
Logic Pro and GarageBand
On an audio track, open Audio FX → Audio Units → Rebel G Society → Vocal Apostle. If it’s not there, open Logic Pro → Settings → Plug-in Manager, select Vocal Apostle and click Reset & Rescan Selection.
Ableton Live
Open Settings → Plug-Ins, turn on Use VST3 Plug-In System Folders, then click Rescan. Vocal Apostle appears under Plug-Ins → Rebel G Society.
FL Studio
Open Options → Manage plugins and click Find plugins. Then add Vocal Apostle to a mixer insert from the plugin list.
Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, Bitwig and others
Rescan your VST3 plug-ins (most DAWs do this when they start). Vocal Apostle is listed under Rebel G Society.
Activate your key
In Vocal Apostle, click SETTINGS, paste your key (VAP-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX) into the LICENCE box and click ACTIVATE. Your Mac needs to be online for this one step; after that the plug-in works offline. Activate once per computer: it covers every DAW and the standalone app on that Mac.
If something goes wrong
There’s no Open Anyway button
Double-click the installer again, click Done, then go straight back to System Settings → Privacy & Security. The button appears below the Security heading for about an hour after each try.
macOS says the installer is damaged
Download it again from The Vault; a download that was cut off can’t be opened. If it still won’t open, you can clear the download warning in Terminal (Applications → Utilities → Terminal): type xattr -c and a space, drag the installer into the Terminal window, and press Return. Then double-click the installer.
I can’t find it in Logic Pro
Open Logic Pro → Settings → Plug-in Manager, find Vocal Apostle under Rebel G Society, select it and click Reset & Rescan Selection. Make sure it’s ticked to use. Then restart Logic.
It says my key is already active on the limit of computers
Reply to your purchase email with the key and we’ll free a computer for you, so you can activate on the new one.
Activation can’t reach the server
Check that the Mac is online, and that a firewall or VPN isn’t blocking your DAW. Then click ACTIVATE again.
How do I uninstall it?
Delete Vocal Apostle.component from /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components, Vocal Apostle.vst3 from /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 and Vocal Apostle.app from Applications. In Finder, use Go → Go to Folder to open those folders.
Still stuck? Contact us or reply to your purchase email and we’ll help.