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@@ -3,27 +3,15 @@ layout: default
 title: Working With Plugins
 ---                        
 
-
-
-<p><dfn>Plugins</dfn> are bits of software that get loaded by Ardour in order to:</p>
-<ul>
-  <li>Create various audio or MIDI effects
-  </li>
-  <li>Generate audio by functioning as "software instruments"
-  </li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Ardour does not come with any built-in signal processors of its own
-(other than volume faders) and it also generally doesn't ship with any
-plugins. They are written by 3rd parties, though we do provide <a href="/working-with-plugins/getting-plugins/">some
-  information on how to get them</a>.
+<p>
+  <dfn>Plugins</dfn> are bits of software that get loaded by Ardour in order to create various audio or MIDI effects, or generate audio by functioning as "software instruments".
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Ardour supports a variety of different plugin standards:
+  Ardour supports a variety of different plugin standards:
 </p>
-<dl class="narrower-table">
 
+<dl class="narrower-table">
   <dt><abbr title="Linux Audio Developers' Simple Plugin API">LADSPA</abbr></dt>
   <dd>An early, simple, lightweight plugin <abbr title="Application
   Programming Interface">API</abbr>, audio effects only,
@@ -31,7 +19,7 @@ Ardour supports a variety of different plugin standards:
   <dt><abbr title="LADSPA Version 2">LV2</abbr></dt>
   <dd>An extensible, full-featured plugin API, audio and <abbr
   title="Musical Instrument Digital Interface">MIDI</abbr>, plugins can provide their
-  own  <abbr title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</abbr>s</dd>
+  own  <abbr title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</abbr>s; the successor to LADSPA</dd>
   <dt><abbr title="Audio Unit">AU</abbr></dt>
   <dd>OS X only, full featured, audio and MIDI, plugins can provide their own GUI</dd>
 
@@ -40,25 +28,15 @@ Ardour supports a variety of different plugin standards:
     <dl>
     <dt>on Linux</dt><dd>(native) Linux VST plugins fully supported (VST2.4)</dd>
     <dt>on Windows</dt><dd>(native) Windows VST plugins fully supported (VST2.4)</dd>
-    <dt>on OS X</dt><dd>Not supported, unless you use a VST&lt;&gt;AU
+    <dt>on OS X</dt><dd>Not supported, unless you use a VST-to-AU
     bridge plugin. Similar to Apple's Logic DAW.</dd>
   </dl>
   </dd>
 
   <dt>Windows VST Plugins on Linux</dt>
-  <dd>VST plugins for Windows, but being used on Linux. <em>Not
-  supported by normal builds of Ardour. <a href="/working-with-plugins/windows-vst-support">Read
-  more...</a></em>
+  <dd>VST plugins for Windows, but being used on Linux. <strong>Normally not supported.</strong> See <a href="/working-with-plugins/windows-vst-support">Windows VST Plugins on Linux</a> for details.
   </dd>
 </dl>
 
-<h2>Adding/Removing/Copying Plugins</h2>
-
-<p>Within Ardour, plugins are just another type
-of <dfn>Processor</dfn> and so the techniques for
-adding/removing/copying/moving processors apply to plugins as
-well. These techniques are covered on
-the <a href="/working-with-plugins/processor-box">Processor
-Box</a> page.</p>
-
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