[ardour-users] Setting up a gentoo box for ardour

[Mark Knecht]

On 3/17/06, Andrew Johnston <andyandtaya at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>  I'm having trouble with the gentoo ebuild of the caps plugin.  It seems to
> compile okay and merge okay, however it only puts one file (caps.so) into
> the /usr/bin/ladspa directory.  When I browse for them in ardour there is
> nothing there for caps.  I have noticed that the other plugin ebuilds i've
> merged have an 'fdr' file in /usr/share/ladspa/fdr, but there is no caps
> file there.  Have you succesfully got caps-plugin working? Do you know of
> this issue and any workaround?  Any help would be appreciated, they are some
> of the best plugins one can get along with tap-plugin.
>  Cheers,
>  Andy J =)
>

Hi Andy,
   I'm on my wife's machine here in the pre-dawn hours so I cannot try
this right now.

   How did you emerge caps-plugins? 0.2.1-r1 or something newer?

* media-plugins/caps-plugins
     Available versions:  0.2.1-r1 ~0.2.3 ~0.3.0
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html
     Description:         The CAPS Audio Plugin Suite - LADSPA plugins

- Mark