KHORLO

Open beta · 0.9.02

macOS VST3 + AU + CLAP 13.9 MB · zip ↓ Windows VST3 + CLAP 6.2 MB · zip ↓ Linux VST3 + CLAP 9.0 MB · zip ↓

Verify your download

Each zip’s SHA-256, so you can check the file you got is the file I built. macOS/Linux: shasum -a 256 <file> · Windows: certutil -hashfile <file> SHA256

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The Khorlo Beta for free. I hope you enjoy it!

Version history

Date	Version	Detail
4 Sep 2026	0.9.02	Fixes for four ways it could fail to load, all of them mine rather than yours. On macOS the plugin’s signature was broken, so macOS refused to load it at all and your DAW never listed it. (That is a separate thing from the “damaged” warning — Khorlo still isn’t signed by Apple, so you still need the quarantine command below. 0.9.02 fixes whether it loads, not whether macOS warns you.) On Windows it needed a Microsoft C++ component that isn’t on every PC. On Linux it asked for a newer system library than it used, which shut out Debian 12 and older Ubuntu. And on any machine where the interface was slow to start, Khorlo gave up after five seconds and hid it, which stopped it loading at all. Every download now includes a README saying where the files go. Smaller: the filter type readout follows a mode change, and the plucker randomiser can reach Noise.
1 Sep 2026	0.9.01	The macOS build declared it needed a newer macOS than it did, so it would not load for most people. The filter type readout stopped showing the wrong mode.
1 Sep 2026	0.9.0	First public beta. macOS, Windows and Linux.

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To install on Mac

Unzip the download. Inside are Khorlo.vst3, Khorlo.component (the Audio Unit, for Logic and GarageBand) and Khorlo.clap. Install any or all — they are the same instrument.
Copy them into your plug-in folders. In Finder press ⌘⇧G, paste a path, and drag the file in:
Khorlo.vst3 → ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 Khorlo.component → ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components Khorlo.clap → ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP
Khorlo is not signed with an Apple certificate yet, so macOS quarantines it and calls it “damaged”. Clear that once: open Terminal (Applications → Utilities), paste this whole line, and press Return:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Khorlo.vst3 ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Khorlo.component ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/Khorlo.clap
If you put them in the system-wide /Library folders instead, use this one — it asks for your password:
sudo xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Khorlo.vst3 /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Khorlo.component /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/Khorlo.clap
A “No such file” message for a format you did not install is fine.
Restart your DAW. Logic: if the Audio Unit does not appear, restart the Mac once — Logic caches its plug-in list.

To install on Windows

Unzip. Copy the whole Khorlo.vst3 folder to C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\ and Khorlo.clap to C:\Program Files\Common Files\CLAP\.
If SmartScreen objects, choose More info, then Run anyway — the build is not code-signed yet.
Start your DAW and rescan plug-ins if it does not appear.

To install on Linux

Unzip. Copy the whole Khorlo.vst3 folder to ~/.vst3/ and Khorlo.clap to ~/.clap/.
Rescan plug-ins in your DAW. The window is a WebKitGTK 4.1 web view; if it opens blank, install your distro’s webkit2gtk-4.1.

The Read Me inside each zip repeats all of this.

It’s still in beta

Anything you save with this build will open in the next one. I changed some preset names for this release, but they’re locked in now. If something sounds wrong, or a session doesn’t come back the way you left it, please let me know — that’s exactly what I want to hear about.