CLAP Plugins Location

[Debutante]

Just going to start using these now since VST2 is dead. Can you move the folder or is this VST3 2.0... are they generally stable?

[EvilDragon]

The path is system-level like VST3. You can symlink it wherever you want, though (also with VST3).

[MirkoVanHauten]

Wasn't there a CLAP environment variable that let you select whatever installation folder you want? I thought I've read that in the docs.

[karrikuh]

From the official spec [1]:

CLAP plugins standard search path:

Linux
- ~/.clap
- /usr/lib/clap

Windows
- %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\CLAP
- %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Common\CLAP

MacOS
- /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP
- ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP

In addition to the OS-specific default locations above, a CLAP host must query the environment
for a CLAP_PATH variable, which is a list of directories formatted in the same manner as the host
OS binary search path (PATH on Unix, separated by `:` and Path on Windows, separated by ';', as
of this writing).

Each directory should be recursively searched for files and/or bundles as appropriate in your OS
ending with the extension `.clap`.

[1] https://github.com/free-audio/clap/blob ... ap/entry.h

[Cuauhtli]

I just put them on an external drive. Reaper's never complained.