title: Getting Plugins
---
-<h2>Where do I get plugins from?</h2>
-
<p>
-The following list shows plugin <em>packages</em>. In some cases, a package contains just 1 or 2 plugins; in other cases, dozens.
+ The following list shows <dfn>plugin packages</dfn>. In some cases,
+ a package contains just 1 or 2 plugins; in other cases, dozens.
</p>
+<h2>Plugins by Standard</h2>
+
<h3 id="LADSPA">LADSPA</h3>
<ul>
-<li>AMB <a href="http://kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html">http://kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html</a>
+<li>AMB <a href="http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/">http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/</a>
</li>
<li>Blepvco <a href="http://www.smbolton.com/linux.html">http://www.smbolton.com/linux.html</a>
</li>
</li>
<li>CMT <a href="http://www.ladspa.org/cmt/">http://www.ladspa.org/cmt/</a>
</li>
-<li>FIL <a href="http://kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html">http://kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html</a>
+<li>FIL <a href="http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/">http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/</a>
</li>
<li>FOO <a href="http://code.google.com/p/foo-plugins/">http://code.google.com/p/foo-plugins/</a>
</li>
-<li>MCP <a href="http://kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html">http://kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html</a>
+<li>MCP <a href="http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/">http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/</a>
</li>
-<li>NJL <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/ladspa/njl-plugins/">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/ladspa/njl-plugins/</a>
+<li>NJL <a href="https://github.com/tialaramex/njl-plugins">https://github.com/tialaramex/njl-plugins</a>
</li>
<li>Omins <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/om-synth/omins.html">http://www.nongnu.org/om-synth/omins.html</a>
</li>
-<li>REV <a href="http://kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html">http://kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html</a>
+<li>REV <a href="http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/">http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/</a>
</li>
<li>SWH <a href="http://plugin.org.uk/">http://plugin.org.uk/</a>
</li>
</li>
<li>VCF <a href="http://www.suse.de/~mana/ladspa.html">http://www.suse.de/~mana/ladspa.html</a>
</li>
-<li>VCO <a href="http://kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html">http://kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html</a>
+<li>VCO <a href="http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/">http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/</a>
</li>
<li>VLevel <a href="http://vlevel.sourceforge.net/">http://vlevel.sourceforge.net/</a>
</li>
<li>Vocoder <a href="http://www.sirlab.de/linux/download_vocoder.html">http://www.sirlab.de/linux/download_vocoder.html</a>
</li>
-<li>WASP <a href="http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/wasp/index.html">http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/wasp/index.html</span></a> (mar wanted!)
+<li>WASP <a href="http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/wasp/index.html">http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/wasp/index.html</a> (mar wanted!)
</li>
-<li>Nova <a href="https://tim.klingt.org/nova/download/nova_filters-0.2.tar.bz2">https://tim.klingt.org/nova/download/nova_filters-0.2.tar.bz2</a>
+<li>Nova <a href="http://klingt.org/~tim/nova-filters/">http://klingt.org/~tim/nova-filters/</a>
</li>
<li>Calf <a href="http://calf.sourceforge.net/">http://calf.sourceforge.net/</a>
</li>
<li>Socal’s LEET Plugins <a href="http://code.google.com/p/leetplugins/">http://code.google.com/p/leetplugins/</a>
</li>
-<li>Invada plugins <a href="http://www.invadarecords.com/Downloads.php?ID=00000263">http://www.invadarecords.com/Downloads.php?ID=00000263</a>
-</li>
-<li>DSSI-VST 0.7 now with LADSPA Extensions <a href="http://www.breakfastquay.com/">http://www.breakfastquay.com/</a>
-</li>
-<li>Holap synthesizer and DSP effects <a href="http://holap.berlios.de/">http://holap.berlios.de/</a>
-</li>
+<!--<li>Holap synthesizer and DSP effects <a href="http://holap.berlios.de/">http://holap.berlios.de/</a>
+</li>-->
</ul>
<h3 id="LV2">LV2</h3>
</li>
<li>Calf <a href="http://calf.sourceforge.net/">http://calf.sourceforge.net/</a>
</li>
-<li>LinuxDSP <a href="http://www.linuxdsp.co.uk/">http://www.linuxdsp.co.uk</a>
+<li>LinuxDSP <a href="http://www.overtonedsp.co.uk/download/linuxdsp-archive/">http://www.overtonedsp.co.uk/download/linuxdsp-archive/</a>
+</li>
+ <li>Invada Studio <a href="https://launchpad.net/invada-studio/">https://launchpad.net/invada-studio/</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="LinuxVST">Linux VST (LXVST)</h3>
VST) <a href="http://www.linux-vst.com/download/mda_linux.tar.gz">http://www.linux-vst.com/download/mda_linux.tar.gz</a></li>
</ul>
-<h3>How do I install plugins?</h3>
+<h2>How do I install plugins?</h2>
-<h4>Linux</h4>
+<h3>Linux</h3>
<p>
- Installation will vary a little depending on how you get plugins. If
+ <dfn>Installation</dfn> will vary a little depending on how you get plugins. If
your repository has a particular plugin package, just install it using
the normal software package management tool for your system. Most
Linux distributions that are good for audio work will have most of
for doing this vary from distribution to distribution. A good place
to start searching is with the name of the package (e.g. "caps" or
"calf"). There are no fixed rules about what different Linux
- dsistributions call their packages for a given set of plugins.
+ distributions call their packages for a given set of plugins.
</p>
<p>
If the package isn't available, then you can build the plugins from
environment variable.
</p>
-<h4>OS X</h4>
+<h3>OS X</h3>
<p>
Unless you're a particularly technical computer user, building and
installing plugins in the LV2 (or LADSPA) format is probably not
- something worth planning on. Ardour releases for OS X ship with a
- collection of many LADSPA plugins, some of which are very useful and
- some of which are outright buggy.
+ something worth planning on.
+</p>
<p>
Most of the plugins you are likely to use on OS X will be in Apple's
AudioUnit format. These have their own installation process that tends to
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