32-bit plug-ins on 64-bit Windows: C: Program Files (x86) Common Files VST2. Any other folder your VST host application is scanning during startup by default is also suitable. But, to keep plug-in installations independent from a specific VST host release, never install plug-ins into the program folder of the VST host application or any other. VST Plugins can be used on Linux, however they may not function correctly, or even cause Ardour to crash. Using these Plugins requires manually Compilingthe Ardour application, a task which is outside the scope of this manual.

My goal was to run VST plug-ins on Linux, but I soon discovered there are issues related to making that happen. After brief research, I decided building Ardour with VST support appeared to be the best option. What follows are the steps I took for building Ardour on Ubuntu 8.10.

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Excellent directions are available on the Ardour site for building the application with specific options, including VST support.

Ardour instructions are available here:

Following the directions on the Ardour site for building the application with VST support on Linux, here are the specific steps I needed to complete for Ubuntu 8.10. The package and library names listed below are for Ubuntu 8.10.

Building Ardour with VST support on Ubuntu 8.10 – The experience, packages and libraries.

All packages and libraries below were installed using the versions available through the synaptic package manager.

Packages:

• gcc/g++ 3.x or above
• scons 0.96 or above
• python (2.3.4 or above)
• gettext 0.12.1 or above
• pkg-config 0.20 or above
• libtool

Using synaptic package manager, I searched for each of these packages to see if they were already installed or mark for install. From the list above, I only needed to install scons, gettext and libtool.

Libraries: Free vst for fl studio 12.

• libjack0
• libjack-dev

• libxml2
• libxml2-dev

• libxslt1.1
• libxslt1-dev

• libart-2.0-2
• libart-2.0-dev

• libsamplerate0
• libsamplerate0-dev

• libraptor1
• libraptor1-dev

• liblrdf0
• liblrdf0-dev

• libasound2
• libasound2-dev

In general, I only needed to install the -dev package for each of the libraries above.

I chose to build version 2.8 of Ardour, as that is the stable release at this time, and my goal is to run vst plug-ins on Linux. The following are required for Ardour 2.x, and the specific version I needed for Ubuntu 8.10 are listed here.

• libglib2.0-0
• libglib2.0-dev

• libgtk2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-dev

• libgnomecanvas2-0
• libgnomecanvas2-dev

• liblo0ldbl
• liblo0-dev

• libboost-dev

• libfftw3-3
• libfftw3-dev

• libaubio2
• libaubio-dev

Following directions for building with VST support, wine packages are also needed

• wine
• wine-dev

The Ardour Source code is available on the download page at Ardour:

Once the source code was downloaded, I created an “ardourvst” directory in my home directory, and extracted the source code file in that location.

There are many options, listed in the Ardour tutorial. I chose to select Freesound support along with VST by running the following command line in the main directory of the Ardour source code.

scons VST=1 FREESOUND=1

The build ran for more than 30 minutes, once complete, the last line of output was:

• scons: done building targets.

Next, I ran the install with root access using the command:

sudo scons install

The result again was:

• scons: done building targets.

This version of Ardour can be run with the command:

ardourvst

Since I have not set any vst related environment variables, Ardour will search for vst plug-ins in the /usr/lib/vst or /usr/local/lib/vst directories which will need to be created or linked to if they don’t already exist.

I prefer to create a link from my home folder so I can load VST plug-ins to my home folder. You can do this by running the following command and replacing the first path with your preferred path.

sudo ln -s /home/yourpath/vst /usr/lib/

Or alternatively you can just create the directory

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/vst

I next closed Ardour, downloaded a VST plug-in, dBlue Glitch, and extracted the file to my VST directory where Ardour will look for it.

Launching Ardour again, the plug-in was available as shown below. So far so good, the VST plug-in is working!

My next post will cover the use of dBlue in Ardour.

Comments or suggestions are welcome.

Installing Plug-ins in Ardour

To get started, follow the steps below: Best vocoder free vst.

1.) You need to install LADSPA first. LADSPA stands for “Linux Audio Developer Simple Plugin”. Go to System – Administration – Synaptic Package Manager. Under “Quick Search”, type “LADSPA”. In the result, look for “swh-plugins”. This is called as Steve Harris’s LADSPA plugins. Proceed to mark it and install.

2.) Now you have installed the plugin. It’s time to add it to Ardour so that you can use it in your projects. Launch Ardour first. Go to Applications – Sound & Video – Ardour GTK2.

3.) Try to create a test project with Ardour and then open it.
4.) Import a sample audio wav file. This will be added to first channel.
5.) Go to Window – Show Mixer. You will see your track in it. See screenshot below:

show mixer

For example in the screenshot, the above track added to the first channel is “chorus bass” and the name of the Ardour project is “mastering”. In the first channel where the first track has been added (e.g. chorus bass); you will see two black areas on the top and bottom. On the top (indicated by yellow arrow), its called the “Pre-fader inserts, sends and plugins”. On the bottom, it is called “Post-fader inserts, sends and plugins”. Ardour works like a software version of real mixing console. If you do not know what are these terms, you should read what are pre-faders, post-faders, inserts and sends.

OK before you can add plugins you should decide if you will add it either in pre-fader or post-fader in that channel/track. This will have a strong impact on the way how you will be handling the tracks. If its added in pre-fader, your fader cannot influence the results of the plug-in. But if the plugin is added in the post-fader, any adjustment in your fader can affect the plug-in.

6.) Supposing you would like to add a plugin in pre-fader region; right click on the black area, then go to “New plugin” – “Plugin Manager”. You will then see all the LADSPA plugins, for example the “Multiband EQ”, “Inverter”, “Flanger”, etc. Supposing you will add a parametric EQ; you can type and search “Parametric” in “Name contains”. And then you will have two choices, namely “Triple band parametric with shelves” and “Single band parametric”.

Supposing you would like to use the triple band parametric EQ: . Click on it and click “Add”. Under “Plugins to be connected”, you will then see “Triple band parametric with shelves”. Finally click “Insert Plugin” to add it to the channel. You will then see the parametric EQ added in the pre-fader section, such as below:

7.) Now its added in the pre-fader, you can start adding settings to the plugin. Double click on “Triple band parametric” under Pre-fader and then you will see its settings menu. Implement any settings you like, supposing you would like to apply a low shelf filter significantly cutting the low bass:

example EQ settings

8.) Close it and then play the audio. You will notice that the EQ settings from the plugin will be implemented in your mix. You can add as many plugins as you want either in pre-fader and post fader by following the steps mentioned in this tutorial. Below are the suggested location for the most commonly used plug-ins:

Time-based plug-ins (preferably added in post-fader)
a.) Reverb
b.) Delay
c.) Echo

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Frequency and dynamic range effects (preferably added in pre-fader)
a.) EQ
b.) Compressors

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