AW, I installed this via the app center in Ubuntu. Neither my lv2 nor vst plugins are being found so it seems unlikely to be an lv2 specific issue. Paul, I appreciate you taking the time to reply but this is not a solution. The plugins are installed according to the INSTALL.txt doc in the LSP download. The subfolder in the LV2 folder was placed in the ~/.lv2 directory and ls ~./.lv2 shows that it is where it is supposed to be. BTW I am using the most recent version of Ubuntu. Whether this is âcorrectly installedâ or not I have no idea. All I know is that I installed them according to the available documentation as best as I understood it. If someone can point me to clear detailed and explicit documentation on installing, and trouble shooting the installation of, plugins in ardour maybe I wonât need to continue this thread. Thank you.
App Center can install snaps or deb files. Do you know which mechanism is used for the Ardour you installed?
Snap is like Flatpak in that it runs applications in a sandbox, so presumably is also like Flatpak in preventing the application from accessing other files (e.g. plugins).
Thank you Chris. Are you saying there is a known issue with installation of ardour via the Ubuntu app center and the ability of the software to load plugins? How can i apply the information you provided to resolve the problem? Are you saying that uninstalling ardour and installing directly from ardour.org will fix this problem? Thanks
Please issue the lv2ls command to validate that you do not have a system level issue, versus an application level issue. And yes, certain installation methods are strongly discouraged mainly because their containerization strategy limits access to other system resources, including being able to see plugins. Thanks!
I am saying that sandboxed distribution formats like Flatpak and Snap are known to have problems, and Ubuntu App Center has the possibility of installing Snaps. You would have to investigate the exact installation format used for Ardour by Ubuntu, but it seems a high probability that is the cause of your problems.
The best way is to install the Ardour package from ardour.org. An alternative would be to install from a deb package that installs a distribution built Ardour in the traditional way.
A third possibility which is not recommended is to install plugins into the same container as the Ardour Snap. I do not know for sure that is possible with Snaps, and it would limit you to only using plugins which are also available as Snaps, which is why it is not recommended.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond in this thread. I uninstalled Ubuntu-installed ardour and went to download ardour for Linux on ardour.org and it requires a subscription. My primary motivation to begin migrating away from Logic was to get away from subscription-based software. Just going to go back to using Logic. But I acknowledge and very much appreciate those who tried to help me with this issue.
You donât have to subscribe. You can also do a one-time payment (as low as 1$) and keep using the version you bought indefinitely.
Also: Ardour subscriptions are nothing at all like âsubscription based softwareâ.
You are not paying for a license to use the software. It will keep working whether you pay or not.
Subscriptions are just a way for you to help support us spread out over time (which we prefer).
But as noted you can do a 1 time payment if you prefer.
The Ubuntu repository browser shows that a non-Snap Ardour is available, at least for 25.04:
Perhaps there is a way to specify in App Center that you wish to install the traditional package and not the snap (assuming a snap packaged version is what you had before, I donât think you ever confirmed that).
The small number of lv2 plugins that came with the installation are in an lv2 folder that is a subfolder to the snap directory. Iâd assume this means that this is a âsnapâ installation.
Donât use Ubuntu. Their trend to move all software to Snap is a bad idea.
As above, try uninstalling the Ubuntu Snap version of Ardour â get an official ardour.org binary (if you canât or donât want to donate then Iâll provide you with the latest official installer) â install it â fetch any other plugins you might want (eg. LSP suite as LV2) and unzip them to .lv2 in your home folder.
Then when you launch Ardour it will find all installed plugs on startup and you can then get familiar with this brilliant programme and become a high-flying subscriber / donater yourself and live happily ever after.
You can also download the source and compile it from scratch. Takes some time to get all the dependencies lined up, but I have it compiled on Kubuntu and donât have to mess with the snap garbage. The Ubuntu repositories are also several versions behind. Synaptic shows Ardour version as 8.4 and theyâre on 8.12 now, though if itâs a snap, there shouldnât be any issues with libraries. Not supposed to at least, thatâs the whole point of snap, but I wouldnât bet against an outdated something somewhere.
Side question: what is your OS recommendation?
It depends on your requirements. Many people prefer Debian, Mint, Arch Linux. I personally prefer OpenSUSE Linux.
I hope this is helpful.
After reading about lv2ls in the forum a few times, I ran the command, only to find that lv2ls is not installed. Im on debian trixie and have ardour 8.12 and lots of lv2 plugins working perfectly.
To use the lv2ls command you must first install lilv-utils. I dont know if this applies to all linux flavours and distros, but certainly to a standard install of debian from a net install pkg.
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