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52 lines
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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
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VST away to developers for free. Sounds great, but they do not those
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same developers the ability to pass what they get from Steinberg on to
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other 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
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that they are not opposed in principle to changing their license to
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allow redistribution, but as of mid-summer 2006, it has not happened
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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
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to distribute a binary (ready-to-run) version of Ardour with support
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for VST plugins built in. If you want to use Ardour with VST plugins,
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you must <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 <emphasis>build
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page</emphasis> for a full explanation even without VST support. This
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page documents some more required steps for the build if you want to
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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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