<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416954830336_60795">Thanks, that makes sense.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416954830336_60794"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416954830336_60793" dir="ltr">Cheers,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Chris<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416954830336_60787"><span></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416954830336_60790" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416954830336_60789" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416954830336_60788" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416954830336_60792" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416954830336_60791" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Chris Share <cpsmusic@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "ardour-dev@lists.ardour.org" <ardour-dev@lists.ardour.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 26 November 2014, 15:05<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Ardour-Dev] LV2 Install Location on OSX<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1416954830336_60804" class="y_msg_container"><br>On 11/26/2014 04:13 AM, Chris Share wrote:<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt3452266288" id="yqtfd89614"><br clear="none">> Hi, Is there any reason why Ardour installs Reasonable Synth in its<br clear="none">> app bundle rather than the standard install locations such as<br clear="none">> /usr/local/lib/lv2 or /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2?</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hi Chris,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Ardour bundles (from ardour.org) are completely self-contained on all<br clear="none">platforms. They're relocatable and not bound to any system-wide file<br clear="none">hierarchy (except [start]menu / launcher symlinks).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">You can have multiple versions of ardour installed in parallel<br clear="none">(/opt/Ardour-<Version>/... or in $HOME/..) each of which comes with an<br clear="none">un-install script. If ardour were to deploy files system-wide, things<br clear="none">would be much more complicated and unmaintainable.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Distributions shipping ardour can move it however. Ask your packager.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you want a standalone version of that plugin get<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://github.com/x42/reasonablesynth.lv2" target="_blank">https://github.com/x42/reasonablesynth.lv2 </a>- pretty much the same thing<br clear="none">with a different URI. But really, the whole point of "reasonable synth"<br clear="none">is to address the issue of Ardour-Newbies complaining "I can't hear<br clear="none">MIDI". It's not really meant for anything serious. YMMV.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">best,<br clear="none">robin<div class="yqt3452266288" id="yqtfd10968"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>