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-  
-  <p>Plugins are bits of software that get loaded by Ardour in order to:</p>
+
+<p>Plugins 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>
+  <li>Create various audio or MIDI effects
+  </li>
+  <li>Generate audio by functioning as "software instruments"
+  </li>
 </ul>
-<p>Plugins are written by 3rd parties, and Ardour supports a variety of different plugin standards:</p>
+
+<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>
+
+<p>
+Ardour supports a variety of different plugin standards:
+</p>
 <dl class="narrower-table">
-<dt>LADSPA</dt>
-<dd>An early, simple, lightweight plugin API, audio effects only, plugins have no editors/GUI of their own</dd>
-<dt>LV2</dt>
-<dd>An extensible, full-featured plugin API, audio and MIDI, plugins can provide their own editors/GUIs</dd>
-<dt>AudioUnit</dt>
-<dd>OS X only, full featured, audio and MIDI, plugins can provide their own GUI</dd>
-<dt>Linux VST</dt>
-<dd>Plugins using Steinberg's VST plugin standard but compiled specifically for Linux</dd>
-<dt>Windows VST</dt>
-<dd>Plugins using Steinberg's VST plugin standard but compiled for Windows. <em>Support for this plugin format is not available in regular builds of Ardour. <a href="/working-with-plugins/windows-vst-support">Read more...</a></em>
-</dd>
-</dl>
-<h2>Adding/Removing/Copying Plugins</h2>
-<p>Within Ardour, plugins are just another type of <code>Processor</code> 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/the-processor-box">Processor Box</a> page.</p>
-  
 
+  <dt>LADSPA</dt>
+  <dd>An early, simple, lightweight plugin API, audio effects only,
+  plugins have no editors/GUI of their own (Ardour provides one, however).</dd>
 
+  <dt>LV2</dt>
+  <dd>An extensible, full-featured plugin API, audio and MIDI, plugins can provide their own editors/GUIs</dd>
 
+  <dt>AudioUnit</dt>
+  <dd>OS X only, full featured, audio and MIDI, plugins can provide their own GUI</dd>
+
+  <dt>Linux VST</dt>
+  <dd>Plugins using Steinberg's VST plugin standard but compiled specifically for Linux</dd>
+
+  <dt>Windows VST</dt>
+  <dd>Plugins using Steinberg's VST plugin standard but compiled for
+  Windows. <em>Support for this plugin format is not available in
+  regular builds of
+  Ardour. <a href="/working-with-plugins/windows-vst-support">Read
+  more...</a></em>
+  </dd>
+</dl>
+
+<h2>Adding/Removing/Copying Plugins</h2>
 
+<p>Within Ardour, plugins are just another type
+of <code>Processor</code> 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/the-processor-box">Processor
+Box</a> page.</p>
 
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