[Ardour-Users] Ardouvst

[Ray Rashif]

On 31/03/2010, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
>> teza wrote:
>>> Hi all, just install ardourvst and I would like to know, where should
>>> I put my vst files to make them available in Ardourvst.
>>> Thanks for hleping
>>> Regards from Paris
>>> Tez at .
>>
>> What is the output of
>>
>>    echo $VST_PATH
>>
>> ?
>>
>> For VSTs installed by an installer
>>
>>    ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins
>>
>> might be a good place.
>>
>> OTOH
>>
>>    usr/local/lib/vst
>>
>> could be a good place too.
>
> PS:
>
> If VST_PLUGINS or VST_PATH isn't set I guess Ardour try to find them in
> /usr/local/lib/vst and /usr/lib/vst, but because I'm not an Ardour user,
> I'm not completely sure how Ardour does handle it for Linux, still less
> for Mac OS.

That's right, and ~/.vst as well. Anyway, it's always a good bet to
set an env var, for reasons outlined here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Proaudio#Environment_Variables


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