X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=include%2Fusing-windows-vst-plugins-on-linux.html;h=628617e5adc12a76bcb5ab45209dd1c268070539;hb=f56f685d73572cad74ad34f4b9dc8acf5ed68fdf;hp=25ae2f48b5e3599c481f5c389eb97459b68f1118;hpb=62f44f618e8577492283c2ccac9701ef699716c3;p=ardour-manual diff --git a/include/using-windows-vst-plugins-on-linux.html b/include/using-windows-vst-plugins-on-linux.html index 25ae2f4..628617e 100644 --- a/include/using-windows-vst-plugins-on-linux.html +++ b/include/using-windows-vst-plugins-on-linux.html @@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ Davis and a few other developers, it is possible to use Windows VST plugins (that is, plugins in VST format built and distributed - for the Windows platforms) on Ardour running on Linux. (Note: there - is no VST support of any kind on OS X). + for the Windows platforms) on Ardour running on Linux.

However, doing so has three substantial downsides:

@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ Step back and think about what "using Windows VSTs" really means: taking bits of software written with only one idea in mind—running on the Windows platform—and then trying to use them on an entirely - different platform. It is a bit of a miracle (largely thanks to the + different platform. It is a bit of a miracle (thanks largely to the incredible work done by the Wine project) that it works at all. But is this the basis of a stable, reliable DAW for a non-Windows platform? Getting Ardour on Linux to pretend that its really a Windows