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<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
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<!DOCTYPE section PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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]>
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<section id="sn-vst-plugins">
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<title>Using VST Plugins</title>
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<section id="vst-why-so-hard">
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<title>Why is this harder than it should be?</title>
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<para>
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The owners of VST (Steinberg Technologies, now owned by Yamaha) give VST
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away to developers for free. Sounds great, but they do not those same
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developers the ability to pass what they get from Steinberg on to other
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developers.
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</para>
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<para>
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This conflicts with the terms of the license for Ardour and several
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software libraries used by Ardour. Steinberg have said quite often that
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they are not opposed in principle to changing their license to allow
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redistribution, but as of mid-summer 2006, it has not happened yet.
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</para>
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<para>
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All of this means that it is <emphasis>illegal</emphasis> for anyone to
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distribute a binary (ready-to-run) version of Ardour with support for VST
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plugins built in. If you want to use Ardour with VST plugins, you must
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<emphasis>compile it yourself</emphasis>.
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</para>
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<para>
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This is not a trivial undertaking; see our
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<emphasis>build page</emphasis>
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for a full explanation even without VST support. This page documents some
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more required steps for the build if you want to include VST support.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="building-ardour-with-vst-support">
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<title>Getting a version of Ardour with VST support</title>
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<para>
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... to be completed.
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</para>
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</section>
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<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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href="Some_Subsection.xml" />
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-->
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</section>
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