X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=include%2Fusing-windows-vst-plugins-on-linux.html;h=fbd71ab4e4830d4d195bdfbe8598bdfbaeb0d4a7;hb=a61fbacdfcb7a76fe425fada61f49fc85751e47a;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..fbd71ab 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 @@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ done this. You can choose between using "Linux VST" (which is what Loomer and others have done)—you will find toolkits like JUCE that help to make this fairly easy—or using LV2 format which is - ultimately more flexible but probably more work. We have + ultimately more flexible but probably requires more work. We have users—thousands of users—on Linux who would like to use your plugins.