I installed the Linux Studio Plugins LV2 subfolder into ~/.lv2 as instructed in installation.txt but Ardour does not find them when I scan for plug ins. Any help much appreciated thank you.
Show the output of ls -l ~/.lv2
And of echo $LV2_PATH
and check the output lv2ls ā¦ if they do not appear there, they are not correctly installed.
ls -l ~/.lv2 returns the LV2 subfolder I copied from the LSP download: lsp-plugins.lv2
echo $LV2_PATH does not return anything.
I also created a folder for the vst3 version of the plugins and chose that directory in the preferences for the path to vst3 plugins and rescanned for plugins and ardour does not appear to find them. Sorry Iām new to ardour and the documentation for installing plugins is not entirely explicit. Thanks
After installing LV2 plugins, just restart Ardour (no plugin scan is needed). Ardour picks up LV2 plugins automatically on application start.
Open ardour go to the plugin manager and search āLSPā. If any plugins show up, check that they have āOKā in the āStatusā column. If not, click on a plugin and check what the log messages in the text area at the bottom say and if there are any error messages, copy them here.
Thanks Robin but that is not working for me. Neither my vat3 or LV2 plugins are being found by Ardour on restart.
Thanks SK here is the putput
VST3 module-path ā/home/gately/ardour_plugins/lsp-plugins.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/lsp-plugins.soā
[Info]: Scanning: /home/gately/ardour_plugins/lsp-plugins.vst3
[ERROR]: Could not load VST3 plugin ā/home/gately/ardour_plugins/lsp-plugins.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/lsp-plugins.soā: libXrandr.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Cannot load VST3 module: ā/home/gately/ardour_plugins/lsp-plugins.vst3/Contents/x86_64-linux/lsp-plugins.soā
Scan Failed.
So a missing library that the plugin depends on.
On a debian based distros (like Ubuntu etc) sudo apt install libxrandr2
thanks Robin I did this and now about 1/3 of my menu options in the top tool bar drop down menus have disappeared.
[sudo] password for gately:
Reading package listsā¦ Done
Building dependency treeā¦ Done
Reading state informationā¦ Done
libxrandr2 is already the newest version (2:1.5.2-2build1).
libxrandr2 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
also the plugins are still not found
how do i get my menus back? will i have to reinstall?
Certainly not. especially since the library was already installed, so this command effectively did nothing.
Have you tried rebooting, or re-login?
Yes I have rebooted but now I have two problems. The plugins arenāt loading and some of the options are missing from the drop down menus and just replaced with blank spaces.
What drop down menu?
Where is the output from lv2ls ? If the plugins do not show in that output, they are not correctly installed (this is not dependent on Ardour).
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