- Ardour allows you to process audio and MIDI using any number of
- <dfn>plugins</dfn>. These are external pieces of code, commonly seen as
- VST plugins on Windows or AU plugins on Mac OS X. Ardour supports
- the following plugin standards:
-</p>
-<dl class="wide-table">
- <dt><abbr title="Linux Audio Developers' Simple Plugin API">LADSPA</abbr></dt>
- <dd>the first major plugin standard for Linux. Many LADSPA plugins are
- available, mostly free and open-source.</dd>
- <dt><abbr title="LADSPA Version 2">LV2</abbr></dt>
- <dd>the successor to LADSPA. Lots of plugins have been ported from
- LADSPA to LV2, and also many new plugins written.</dd>
- <dt><abbr title="Virtual Studio Technology">VST</abbr></dt>
- <dd>Ardour supports VST plugins that have been compiled for Linux.</dd>
- <dt><abbr title="Audio Units">AU</abbr></dt>
- <dd>Mac OS X versions of Ardour support AudioUnit plugins.</dd>
-</dl>
-<p>
- Ardour has some support for running Windows VST plugins on Linux, but
- this is rather complicated, extremely difficult for the Ardour
- developers to debug, and generally unreliable, as it requires to run a
- large amount of Windows code in an emulated environment.<br />
- If it is at all possible, you are strongly advised to use native
- LADSPA, LV2 or Linux VST plugins on Linux, or AU on Mac OS X.
-</p>
-<p>
- More details can be found at
- <a href="/working-with-plugins/">Working With Plugins</a>.
+ Ardour allows processing audio and MIDI using any number of
+ <dfn>plugins</dfn>. These are external pieces of code, commonly seen as VST
+ plugins on Windows or AU plugins on Mac OS X. Ardour supports the following
+ plugin standards:
+</p>
+
+<table class="dl">
+ <tr><th><abbr title="Linux Audio Developers' Simple Plugin API">LADSPA</abbr></th>
+ <td>the first major plugin standard for Linux. Many LADSPA plugins are
+ available, mostly free and open-source.</td></tr>
+ <tr><th><abbr title="LADSPA Version 2">LV2</abbr></th>
+ <td>the successor to LADSPA. Lots of plugins have been ported from LADSPA to
+ LV2, and also many new plugins written.</td></tr>
+ <tr><th><abbr title="Virtual Studio Technology">VST</abbr></th>
+ <td>Ardour supports VST plugins that have been compiled for Linux.</td></tr>
+ <tr><th><abbr title="Audio Units">AU</abbr></th>
+ <td>Mac OS X versions of Ardour support AudioUnit plugins.</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+ Ardour has some support for running Windows VST plugins on Linux, but this is
+ rather complicated, extremely difficult for the Ardour developers to debug,
+ and generally unreliable, as it requires running a large amount of Windows
+ code in an emulated environment. If it is at all possible, it is strongly
+ advisable to use native LADSPA, LV2 or Linux VST plugins on Linux, or AU on
+ Mac OS X.
+</p>
+
+<p class="note">
+ More details can be found at <a href="@@working-with-plugins">Working With
+ Plugins</a>.