manual/xml/vst_plugins.xml

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   7 <section id="sn-vst-plugins">
   8         <title>Using VST Plugins</title>
   9         <section id="vst-why-so-hard">
  10                 <title>Why is this harder than it should be?</title>
  11                 <para>
  12                         The owners of VST (Steinberg Technologies, now owned by Yamaha) give VST
  13                         away to developers for free. Sounds great, but they do not those same
  14                         developers the ability to pass what they get from Steinberg on to other
  15                         developers.
  16                 </para>
  17
  18                 <para>
  19                         This conflicts with the terms of the license for Ardour and several
  20                         software libraries used by Ardour. Steinberg have said quite often that
  21                         they are not opposed in principle to changing their license to allow
  22                         redistribution, but as of mid-summer 2006, it has not happened yet.
  23                 </para>
  24
  25                 <para>
  26                         All of this means that it is <emphasis>illegal</emphasis> for anyone to
  27                         distribute a binary (ready-to-run) version of Ardour with support for VST
  28                         plugins built in. If you want to use Ardour with VST plugins, you must
  29                         <emphasis>compile it yourself</emphasis>.
  30                 </para>
  31
  32                 <para>
  33                         This is not a trivial undertaking; see our
  34                         <emphasis>build page</emphasis>
  35                         for a full explanation even without VST support. This page documents some
  36                         more required steps for the build if you want to include VST support.
  37                 </para>
  38         </section>
  39
  40         <section id="building-ardour-with-vst-support">
  41                 <title>Getting a version of Ardour with VST support</title>
  42                 <para>
  43                         ... to be completed.
  44                 </para>
  45         </section>
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