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--- a/_manual/11_working-with-plugins.html
+++ b/_manual/11_working-with-plugins.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ title: Working With Plugins
-
Plugins are bits of software that get loaded by Ardour in order to:
+Plugins are bits of software that get loaded by Ardour in order to:
- Create various audio or MIDI effects
@@ -24,24 +24,30 @@ Ardour supports a variety of different plugin standards:
- - LADSPA
- - An early, simple, lightweight plugin API, audio effects only,
+
- LADSPA
+ - An early, simple, lightweight plugin API, audio effects only,
plugins have no editors/GUI of their own (Ardour provides one, however).
-
- - LV2
- - An extensible, full-featured plugin API, audio and MIDI, plugins can provide their own editors/GUIs
-
- - AudioUnit
+ - LV2
+ - An extensible, full-featured plugin API, audio and MIDI, plugins can provide their
+ own GUIs
+ - AU
- OS X only, full featured, audio and MIDI, plugins can provide their own GUI
- - Linux VST
- - Plugins using Steinberg's VST plugin standard but compiled specifically for Linux
+ - VST
+ - Plugins using Steinberg's VST plugin standard. Varies by platform:
+
+ - on Linux
- (native) Linux VST plugins fully supported (VST2.4)
+ - on Windows
- (native) Windows VST plugins fully supported (VST2.4)
+ - on OS X
- Not supported, unless you use a VST<>AU
+ bridge plugin. Similar to Apple's Logic DAW.
+
+
- - Windows VST
- - Plugins using Steinberg's VST plugin standard but compiled for
- Windows. Support for this plugin format is not available in
- regular builds of
- Ardour. Read
+
- Windows VST Plugins on Linux
+ - VST plugins for Windows, but being used on Linux. Not
+ supported by normal builds of Ardour. Read
more...
@@ -49,10 +55,10 @@ Ardour supports a variety of different plugin standards:
Adding/Removing/Copying Plugins
Within Ardour, plugins are just another type
-of Processor
and so the techniques for
+of Processor and so the techniques for
adding/removing/copying/moving processors apply to plugins as
well. These techniques are covered on
-the Processor
+the Processor
Box page.
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