Any way to get this to work on Mac?

[ToxMox]

I'm thinking about moving to a Mac for my audio processing but I really need a plugin for RNNoise to bring with me. Is there a way I can use this in a DAW on Mac?

[lucianodato]

totally possible. In fact my travis ci script is already building for mac os and I did tried it on a mac when i had one

[ToxMox]

Oh cool! So if I follow the build and install instructions in the readme I should be good or should I do something different? Forgive me I'm not really familiar with compiling and working with Travis.

[lucianodato]

you have to install brew package manager and install all the dependencies. once that's done you can install using the last line of the readme. that would be something like:

brew update
brew cask uninstall oclint
brew install lv2 meson ninja pkg-config autoconf m4 libtool
sudo chmod +x install.sh && sudo ./install.sh

[ToxMox]

Thank you! I will try this and report back next week when my new Mac arrives :)

[lucianodato]

Awesome! let me know if you encounter any problems

[ToxMox]

Got this error on the last step of actually installing the plugin:
`Build started at 2018-11-19T19:43:20.405858
Main binary: /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7
Python system: Darwin
The Meson build system
Version: 0.48.2
Source dir: /Users/toxmox/Downloads/speech-denoiser
Build dir: /Users/toxmox/Downloads/speech-denoiser/build
Build type: native build
Project name: speech-denoiser
Project version: undefined
Sanity testing C compiler: cc
Is cross compiler: False.
Sanity check compiler command line: cc /Users/toxmox/Downloads/speech-denoiser/build/meson-private/sanitycheckc.c -o /Users/toxmox/Downloads/speech-denoiser/build/meson-private/sanitycheckc.exe
Sanity check compile stdout:

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Sanity check compile stderr:

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Running test binary command: /Users/toxmox/Downloads/speech-denoiser/build/meson-private/sanitycheckc.exe
Native C compiler: cc (clang 10.0.0 "Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.44.4)")
Build machine cpu family: x86_64
Build machine cpu: x86_64
Running compile:
Working directory: /var/folders/td/y_y1c8_x62j3y1p07sdv99140000gn/T/tmpalcox3s1
Command line: cc /var/folders/td/y_y1c8_x62j3y1p07sdv99140000gn/T/tmpalcox3s1/testfile.c -pipe -c -o /var/folders/td/y_y1c8_x62j3y1p07sdv99140000gn/T/tmpalcox3s1/output.obj -O0 --print-search-dirs

Code:

Compiler stdout:
programs: =/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin
libraries: =/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/lib/clang/10.0.0

Compiler stderr:

meson.build:13:0: ERROR: C library 'rnnoise-nu' not found
`

[ToxMox]

@lucianodato I've made sure meson is current because I read an earlier closed issue here that had a similar error and updating meson fixed it but not here. Running meson 0.48.2

In a feeble attempt to get it working I tried renaming rnnoise-nu.h to rnnnoise-nu but that didn't work because I don't know what I'm doing lol.

Any ideas?

[lucianodato]

hey, sorry for the delay. that error is because to compile the plugin you first need to compile a static version of rnnoise and you probably don't have the dependencies to compile it. look at the readme, it says what you need for that. right now, i don't remember the packages names for mac, but it should be something like "build-essentials". it's probably related to that. happy thanksgiving!

[ToxMox]

No worries. I tried to build rnnoise but got an error on the first step. I haven't found any references online to people compiling rnnoise on Mac so I kind of hit a brick wall.

Do you by any chance still have an old compiled Mac version laying around that I could use?

Here is the error and Happy Thanksgiving to you too! :)

Mac-mini:rnnoise toxmox$ ./autogen.sh Updating build configuration files for rnnoise, please wait.... Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326. autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory

[lucianodato]

there is one available in travis ci server. i definitely need to learn how to download those and share them. i will do that asap

[ToxMox]

That would be amazing, thanks! You are a very kind developer and I appreciate you taking the time to help me 👍

[ToxMox]

@lucianodato ok so I got it to build. Needed brew install automake
My problem now after some research is my VST host doesn't support LV2 files. FeelsBadMan. I tried building lv2vst using all the methods on this page http://www.admiralbumblebee.com/music/2017/11/29/Run-LV2-plugins-on-macOS.html
and keep getting an error on the brew install lv2vst step. I hope some day you maybe you consider adding a mac vst or AU plugin to the build system if possible.

Error log: https://pastebin.com/h2rNg5p8
I'm also going to report this error on that page I linked but figured I'd update here too.

[ToxMox]

Ok so until I can get lv2vst wrapper working I'm using Ardour on Mac to use the plugin successfully.

My only question is I read there are 6 models to choose from but I don't see anywhere in the plugin window to change the model etc. Am I missing something simple here?

There is a preset dropdown with (none) as the only option. Is there supposed to be something there?

[ToxMox]

Ok so I received a new Makefile for lv2vst (should get fixed upstream by the dev soon for Mojave) that allowed me to build that as well. I am now successfully using the plugin in my VST host on Mac 👍

Now that I have it in my usual host I see the only setting is the reduction db in the interface. Is that correct?

[lucianodato]

that's great news. though your request is valid and i have previously been asked for the same. sometime in the future i will do it

[lucianodato]

regarding your question about the only parameter that you are able to see, yeah i haven't implemented model switching yet. the reduction though is enough with this one since rnnoise uses ML you don't need to tune anything else. works like magic!

[MichelDiz]

Not working on Catalina.

Build type: native build
Project name: speech-denoiser
Project version: undefined
C compiler for the host machine: cc (clang 11.0.3 "Apple clang version 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.62)")
C linker for the host machine: cc ld64 556.6
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Library rnnoise-nu found: YES
Library m found: YES
Found pkg-config: /opt/local/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Found CMake: /opt/local/bin/cmake (3.16.5)
Run-time dependency lv2 found: NO (tried pkgconfig, framework and cmake)

meson.build:18:0: ERROR: Dependency "lv2" not found, tried pkgconfig, framework and cmake

A full log can be found at /Users/user/speech-denoiser/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory
ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory

[whicks1]

For me, this answer got me most of the way there on Catalina: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59808919/1660678 but I still had a FAILED: meson-install Permission denied: '/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2' changed INSTALL_DIR_MAC in install.sh to~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2 and install sailed through.