Moving Plugin Locations

[finotti (Luis Finotti)]

If I move the locations of some plugins (and re-scan for plugins), will Ardour find the plugins in older sessions in which the plugin had a different location? And, more importantly, keep the settings for the plugin in that old session?

If not, is there a work around to keep the plugin settings?

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

If I move the locations of some plugins (and re-scan for plugins), will Ardour find the plugins in older sessions in which the plugin had a different location? And, more importantly, keep the settings for the plugin in that old session?

Yes and yes. Plugins are identified by unique IDs, independent of the plugin’s location on disk.

Even if a plugin is not available when loading a session, Adour adds a “stub” in its place. the state is retained.