$ladspa_path Vs $vst_path

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After some 60 or 90 minutes of trying to get Renoise to recognize the VSTi in my $VST_PATH I went to Edit -> Preferences -> Misc and found out that the reason for Renoise to not recognize the VSTi was that the default settings only check for $LADSPA_PATH, but not for $VST_PATH.

Maybe enable both by default? I’ve only set $VST_PATH, because there has been advice in irc://irc.esper.net/#renoise that $LADSPA_PATH only overwrites the default directories that would be parsed, and $VST_PATH is the one that should be used.

But exactly that was the problem, if there was no default entry - Renoise-wise - for $VST_PATH, but there was one for $LADSPA_PATH, these precise default settings would be pretty irritating - the other way around would be more sensible.

Though after all I think having Renoise check for both by default would keep this problem off everyones back and make it a little more easier to use Renoise with GNU/Linux.

Feedback?

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If $LADSPA_PATH is not set, “/usr/lib/ladspa:/usr/local/lib/ladspa:~/.ladspa” is used

If $VST_PATH is not set, “/usr/lib/vst:/usr/local/lib/vst:~/.vst” is used

So if you want to append another directory, and $LADSPA_PATH is not defined, you have to define it to the above mentioned paths first…

EDIT: Ah, you mean:

You have to manually enable VSTs in the prefs, because VSTs are highly experimental on Linux, thus only recommended for those who exactly know what they do and save their songs every two minutes…