Linux Plug-ins

There are two types of Audacity plug-ins that work in Linux: LADSPA and Nyquist.

Linux LADSPA Plug-ins

There are several specialized Linux distributions for multimedia production, such as 64 Studio, dyne:bolic, Planet CCRMA (which is a special set of packages for Fedora and CentOS), and Ubuntu Studio. There are two ways to install LADSPA plug-ins. One way is to use your Linux package manager. 64 Studio includes a bundle of more than 300 plug-ins. Debian and Ubuntu break them out into separate packages. Here are some of the LADSPA plug-in packages in Debian and Ubuntu:

  • blepvco (LADSPA anti-aliased, minBLEP-based, hard-sync-capable oscillator plug-ins)

  • blop (Band-limited wavetable-based oscillator plug-ins for LADSPA hosts)

  • caps (C* Audio ...

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