I'm new to Mac so I took some time to study this and now I can answer my own question.
Audio plugins on Mac, even VST and VST3, are not consolidated, single file ".dlls" like they are on Windows - they are bundles of separate code files, graphics files, etc., that make up the plugins. The "plists" are sort of an index of what's in each plugin bundle.
Now that I understand it I don't like it. Seems too easy for someone to rip off your graphics and code when it's distributed as a collection of individual files like this. Maybe it's more CPU efficient this way and that's why it is, IDK.
Last edited by Nonlinear; 01-29-2019 at 08:22 PM.
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