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7 <section id="sn-vst-plugins">
8 <title>Using VST Plugins</title>
9 <section id="vst-why-so-hard">
10 <title>Why is this harder than it should be?</title>
12 The owners of VST (Steinberg Technologies, now owned by Yamaha) give
13 VST away to developers for free. Sounds great, but they do not those
14 same developers the ability to pass what they get from Steinberg on to
19 This conflicts with the terms of the license for Ardour and several
20 software libraries used by Ardour. Steinberg have said quite often
21 that they are not opposed in principle to changing their license to
22 allow redistribution, but as of mid-summer 2006, it has not happened
27 All of this means that it is <emphasis>illegal</emphasis> for anyone
28 to distribute a binary (ready-to-run) version of Ardour with support
29 for VST plugins built in. If you want to use Ardour with VST plugins,
30 you must <emphasis>compile it yourself</emphasis>.
34 This is not a trivial undertaking; see our <emphasis>build
35 page</emphasis> for a full explanation even without VST support. This
36 page documents some more required steps for the build if you want to
41 <section id="building-ardour-with-vst-support">
42 <title>Getting a version of Ardour with VST support</title>
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