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Original Message Date: 28-Jul-04 @ 07:45 AM Edit: 28-Jul-04 | 07:46 AM - WTF?

Optofonik - AKA, mick, rhyze, etc.

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Its been several years since this topic was brought up. What's new? Anyone using Linux these days?

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Message 11/13 21-Jan-07 @ 02:23 PM - RE:

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Using VST Plugins
Why is this harder than it should be?

The owners of VST (Steinberg Technologies, now owned by Yamaha) give VST away to developers for free. Sounds great, but they do not those same developers the ability to pass what they get from Steinberg on to other developers.

This conflicts with the terms of the license for Ardour and several software libraries used by Ardour. Steinberg have said quite often that they are not opposed in principle to changing their license to allow redistribution, but as of mid-summer 2006, it has not happened yet.

All of this means that it is illegal for anyone to distribute a binary (ready-to-run) version of Ardour with support for VST plugins built in. If you want to use Ardour with VST plugins, you must compile it yourself.

This is not a trivial undertaking; see our build page for a full explanation even without VST support. This page documents some more required steps for the build if you want to include VST support.
Getting a version of Ardour with VST support
... to be completed.

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Message 12/13 21-Jan-07 @ 04:20 PM - RE:

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so how did synthedit & the kvr-vst guys get around it?

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Message 13/13 22-Jan-07 @ 12:58 PM - RE:

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i'm not a coder so it sounds like a good question... you aint gonna flog a pro media product when adobe or whoever are making s/w that can in realtime turn a walking man into a walking ice cream in video - one plugin provider source aint gonna cut it, it's also gotta work with most pro hardware controllers and hardware dsp fx cards or people wont move, isnt this always the way with 'alternatives' over the yearts? unless you're talkingh straight audio recorder to be used in a hardware studio setup with multiple hardware outs.. and then you still have the issue of collaborative work transfer to steinberg/emagic platforms otherwise you're isolated from collaboration

SAW has this better covered as the only alternative audio-recorder multitrack app in that it is superb and works with vst & dx plugs, but it is still windows only afaik, albeit super stable

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