[Ardour-Users] Ardouvst

[Ralf Mardorf]

Ray Rashif wrote:
> 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

Cool link, for me 
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Proaudio#Realtime_Kernel and 
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Proaudio#Tricks_and_Tips are 
interesting.