Ardour 3 Vst Plugins

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This is a tutorial on how to add, install and use plugins in Ardour using Linux. Plugins are highly valuable anytime you do audio mixing and mastering work. Example of plugins can be reverb, EQ, compressors, etc.

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In case there’s someone else who installed Ubuntu Studio and made Ardour 2 work with VST plugins, it would be great if you posted guide here how to do so. Again, I’m no pro using Ubuntu (so the guide should be pretty much for dummies) but I’d like to start using Ardour for my recordings.

Install Ardour first

This is tested to work in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and Ardour 2.8.6. If you still have not installed Ardour, then follow the steps below:

1.) First, make sure your Ubuntu distribution is updated. In Ubuntu, go to System – Administration – Update manager, make sure it says “Your system is up to date”.

2.) Install “jackd” first, these are low latency audio tools very useful for recording. Go to System—Administration–Synaptic Package Manager. In the newly released distribution of Linux, it does not anymore include Synaptic Manager. But there should be a tool for managing installed software. For example in Ubuntu, this is called Ubuntu Software manager.

Login using your root Linux password. Under quick search, type jackd

3.) Check “jackd” and then click “mark for installation” , there are other dependent packages to be installed so just click “Mark” as well. To install these packages, click “Apply” in the Synaptic package manager menu. If it ask “Apply the following changes”? Click Apply.

4.) If it ask enable jackd for realtime process priority? Check yes and click “Forward”. After installation it will be marked with green marks beside them. Make sure jackd, jackd-firewire, and qjackctl are green marks.

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In the modern installation of Ardour particularly with the latest Ubuntu distributions, it will automatically configure for real time implementation of Jack. You simply need to press “Forward” to install.

But you can always confirm by going to Places—Computer—File System–etc–security–limits.d. Make sure there is a file there called “audio.conf” with the contents below:

@audio – rtprio 99
@audio – memlock unlimited
#@audio – nice -19

5.) You need to confirm that you have added your username to the @audio group. Go to System—Administration—Click “Manage Groups”. Click “audio” group under “Group settings”, then click “Properties”. Under “Group members”, check your Ubuntu username and click OK. Verify by entering your root Linux password. Then close all windows.

6.) Logout to your username and login again (not restart or reboot just click Logout).

7.) After logging back in, Go to Applications – Ubuntu Software – and in the search box , type “Ardour”. When you see “Ardour GTK2”, click “Install” then proceed by entering your Linux password to authenticate.

Ardour in Ubuntu software

8.) Try starting Jack first before starting Ardour. It is because Ardour depends on JACK. Enter the command in the terminal: qjackctl. For details, read this tutorial:

And then go to Step 4.c. There is a procedure there on how to start Jack without Xruns.

9.) After installation, launch Ardour by going to Applications –Sound and Video– Ardour GTK2.
10.) Finally click “Start”. You are then ask to start a new session. Select “new session” tab.Type the name of the sesssion example, “sessiontest” . Then for convenience I saved the files to my Ubuntu desktop. Click “New”.

11.) The nice-looking Ardour digital audio workstation environment will then load up, ready to accept tracks for you to record, mix or even master.

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The following list shows a few plugin packages. In some cases, a package contains just one or two plugins; in other cases, dozens.

This list does not aim at being exhaustive.

Plugins by Standard:

LV2

  • SWH http://plugin.org.uk/lv2/ [GNU GPLv3]
  • ll-plugins http://ll-plugins.nongnu.org/ [GNU GPLv3]
  • ZynAddSubFX http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/ [GNU GPLv2+]
  • OvertoneDSP https://www.overtonedsp.co.uk/ [Proprietary]
  • Invada Studio https://launchpad.net/invada-studio/ [GNU GPLv2]
  • Pianoteq https://www.pianoteq.com/ [Proprietary]

LADSPA

  • Kokkini Zita http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/ [GNU GPL/GNU GPLv3]
  • Blepvco http://www.smbolton.com/linux.html [GNU GPLv2+]
  • Blop http://blop.sourceforge.net/ [GNU GPLv2]
  • CAPS http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html [GNU GPLv3]
  • CMT http://www.ladspa.org/cmt/overview.html [GNU GPLv2]
  • FOO https://github.com/sampov2/foo-plugins [GNU GPLv2]
  • NJL https://github.com/tialaramex/njl-plugins [GNU GPLv2]
  • Omins http://www.nongnu.org/om-synth/omins.html [GNU GPLv3]
  • SWH http://plugin.org.uk/ [GNU GPLv3]
  • TAP http://tap-plugins.sourceforge.net/ [GNU GPLv2]
  • VCF http://www.suse.de/~mana/ladspa.html [GNU LGPL]
  • VLevel http://vlevel.sourceforge.net/ [GNU GPLv2]
  • Vocoder http://www.sirlab.de/linux/download_vocoder.html [GNU GPLv2+]
  • WASP http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/wasp/index.html [GNU GPLv3]
  • Nova http://chuck.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/10/i386/repoview/ladspa-nova-plugins.html [GNU GPLv2+]
  • Socal’s LEET Plugins http://code.google.com/p/leetplugins/ [GNU GPLv2]

Linux VST (LXVST)

  • Loomer http://www.loomer.co.uk/ [Proprietary]
  • Distrho http://distrho.sourceforge.net/ports.php [GNU GPLv3]
  • Argotlunar http://argotlunar.info/ [GNU GPLv2]
  • U-he https://u-he.com/ [Proprietary]

How to install plugins?

Linux

Installation will vary a little depending on how the plugins have been obtained. If a particular plugin package appears in the local repository, installing it using is done by using the normal software package management tool for the system. Most Linux distributions that are good for audio work will have most of the LADSPA and LV2 plugins mentioned above available in ready-to-use form.

Finding them will typically require searching the distribution's repository to find the name of the package. The tools for doing this vary from distribution to distribution. A good place to start searching is with the name of the package (e.g. 'caps' or 'cmt'). There are no fixed rules about what different Linux distributions call their packages for a given set of plugins.

Vst

If the package isn't available, then the plugins can be built from source (plugins are generally fairly easy to compile and well-documented).

LADSPA plugins are shared library files. They need to be installed in either /usr/lib/ladspa, /usr/local/lib/ladspa or in a directory mentioned in the local LADSPA_PATH environment variable.

LV2 plugins are folders/directories. They need to be installed in either /usr/lib/lv2, /usr/local/lib/lv2 or a directory mentioned in the local LV2_PATH environment variable.

Linux VST (LXVST) plugins are distributed as shared library files. They are typically installed in /usr/lib/lxvst, /usr/local/lib/lxvst or a directory mentioned in the local LXVST_PATH environment variable.

OS X

Except for the particularly technical computer user, building and installing plugins in the LV2 (or LADSPA) format is probably not something worth planning on.

Most of the plugins likely to be used on OS X will be in Apple's AudioUnit format. These have their own installation process that tends to just work.