</ul>
<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
+ (other than volume faders) but does ship with a small group of
+ plugins starting at Ardour 5.0. The shipped plugins are listed as authored by "Ardour Team"
+ and named with "a-" as the start of the name (Like a-EQ) or Authored by
+ "Ardour LUA Task Force" in which case they are example (but still useful)
+ LUA scripts. The included plugins are LV2 or LUA scripts and use
+ Ardour's generic GUI. They work on all supported platforms so that
+ projects started on one platform will sound the same on another platform
+ if they use just these plugins or other plugins that
+ are cross platform.
+ 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>
+<h4>
Ardour supports a variety of different plugin standards:
-</p>
+</h4>
<dl class="narrower-table">
<dt><abbr title="Linux Audio Developers' Simple Plugin API">LADSPA</abbr></dt>
<dt><abbr title="LADSPA Version 2">LV2</abbr></dt>
<dd>An extensible, full-featured plugin API, audio and <abbr
title="Musical Instrument Digital Interface">MIDI</abbr>, plugins can provide their
- own <abbr title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</abbr>s</dd>
+ own <abbr title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</abbr>s but may use the
+ one Ardour provides instead.</dd>
<dt><abbr title="Audio Unit">AU</abbr></dt>
<dd>OS X only, full featured, audio and MIDI, plugins can provide their own GUI</dd>
<dl>
<dt>on Linux</dt><dd>(native) Linux VST plugins fully supported (VST2.4)</dd>
<dt>on Windows</dt><dd>(native) Windows VST plugins fully supported (VST2.4)</dd>
- <dt>on OS X</dt><dd>Not supported, unless you use a VST<>AU
- bridge plugin. Similar to Apple's Logic DAW.</dd>
+ <dt>on OS X</dt><dd>(native) macOS VST plugins fully supported (VST2.4) since Ardour 5.5</dd>
</dl>
</dd>