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 />
+ 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.
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