[LAU] Ardour custom plugins system exposition

[Hanspeter Portner]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Yassin Philip wrote:

> Are Ardour "custom" plugins (such as the a-Fluid Synth) available outside of
> Ardour?

As already mentioned, those are LV2 plugins shipped with Ardour. The plugins are
not installed in a standard LV2 directory (and thus not found by any other LV2
host by default), but reside in Ardour's library tree instead, e.g. in
"/usr/lib/ardour5/LV2" on my system.

In order to get access to those plugins from any other LV2 host, simply extend
your LV2_PATH with that path and Ardour's plugins should show up magically in
your other host.

LV2_PATH="/usr/lib/ardour5/LV2:$LV2_PATH" \
  jalv.gtk3 urn:ardour:a-fluidsynth