Unless otherwise stated in the plugin manual, your system must meet the following requirements in order to run Harrison plugins:
- Windows : Windows 7 or higher
- Mac : Mac OS 10.9 or higher
- Linux : GCC 5 compatible systems, OpenGL 3.2 or higher, with libcurl-gnutls installed
Note for Pro Tools users
Pro Tools 11 or higher is required on Mac, 10.3.5 or higher is required on Windows.
Note For WIndows Users
Harrison plugins require the “Windows C++ Universal Runtime” to be installed on your computer. Universal runtime is part of the system’s core libraries on Windows 10. On Windows versions Vista to 8.1, it will be automatically installed via Windows Update. It is also possible to install the runtime manually, but that is outside the scope of this manual.
Note for Linux Users
If you’re experiencing issues with the plugin’s graphics or the GUI isn’t showing up correctly on Linux, make sure your system’s graphics driver supports the minimum required OpenGL version of 3.2 or higher. To check this, run glxinfo | grep Max in a terminal window and make sure that the value listed for the OpenGL core profile version string is at least 3.2 or greater.
If your core profile version meets this requirement but you are still experiencing graphics issues like the ones mentioned above, it is likely that your system is reporting an OpenGL version lower than 3.2 to ensure backwards compatibility with deprecated OpenGL functions. To work around this, you can force the system to report an OpenGL version of 3.2 or higher by setting this environment variable: MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.2
You can use this as a prefix when opening your DAW from a terminal command like so:
MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.2 {command_to_launch_program}
This will set the environment variable for that particular terminal session only, so it will be reset once the session is ended. If you don’t want to run this command every time you launch your DAW, you can set the environment variable in your profile script so that it automatically gets set every time you login.