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title: Working With Plugins
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<p><dfn>Plugins</dfn> are bits of software that get loaded by Ardour in order to:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Create various audio or MIDI effects
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</li>
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<li>Generate audio by functioning as "software instruments"
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Ardour does not come with any built-in signal processors of its own
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(other than volume faders) but does ship with a small group of
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plugins starting at Ardour 5.0. The shipped plugins are listed as authored by "Ardour Team"
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and named with "a-" as the start of the name (Like a-EQ) or Authored by
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"Ardour LUA Task Force" in which case they are example (but still useful)
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LUA scripts. The included plugins are LV2 or LUA scripts and use
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Ardour's generic GUI. They work on all supported platforms so that
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projects started on one platform will sound the same on another platform
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if they use just these plugins or other plugins that
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are cross platform.
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They are written by 3rd parties, though we do provide <a href="/working-with-plugins/getting-plugins/">some
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information on how to get them</a>.
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</p>
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<h4>
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Ardour supports a variety of different plugin standards:
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</h4>
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<dl class="narrower-table">
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<dt><abbr title="Linux Audio Developers' Simple Plugin API">LADSPA</abbr></dt>
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<dd>An early, simple, lightweight plugin <abbr title="Application
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Programming Interface">API</abbr>, audio effects only,
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plugins have no editors/GUI of their own (Ardour provides one, however).</dd>
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<dt><abbr title="LADSPA Version 2">LV2</abbr></dt>
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<dd>An extensible, full-featured plugin API, audio and <abbr
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title="Musical Instrument Digital Interface">MIDI</abbr>, plugins can provide their
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own <abbr title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</abbr>s but may use the
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one Ardour provides instead.</dd>
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<dt><abbr title="Audio Unit">AU</abbr></dt>
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<dd>OS X only, full featured, audio and MIDI, plugins can provide their own GUI</dd>
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<dt><abbr title="Virtual Studio Technology">VST</abbr></dt>
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<dd>Plugins using Steinberg's VST plugin standard. Varies by platform:
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<dl>
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<dt>on Linux</dt><dd>(native) Linux VST plugins fully supported (VST2.4)</dd>
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<dt>on Windows</dt><dd>(native) Windows VST plugins fully supported (VST2.4)</dd>
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<dt>on OS X</dt><dd>(native) macOS VST plugins fully supported (VST2.4) since Ardour 5.5</dd>
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</dl>
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</dd>
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<dt>Windows VST Plugins on Linux</dt>
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<dd>VST plugins for Windows, but being used on Linux. <em>Not
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supported by normal builds of Ardour. <a href="/working-with-plugins/windows-vst-support/">Read
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more...</a></em>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<h2>Adding/Removing/Copying Plugins</h2>
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<p>Within Ardour, plugins are just another type
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of <dfn>Processor</dfn> and so the techniques for
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adding/removing/copying/moving processors apply to plugins as
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well. These techniques are covered on
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the <a href="/working-with-plugins/processor-box/">Processor
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Box</a> page.</p>
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