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Ardour not showing a VSTi

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I have a native linux VSTi (.so file). I have set the path correctly in ardour (there are other plugins which it does show) and when I click scan for plugins I can briefly see the name of the plugin flash by as it scans. For some reason though when I add a new MIDI track my plugin isn't available in the list of options and it doesn't show up in the plugin manager either. The plugin does work fine though in Qtractor, Bitwig, and Reaper. Any ideas?

I've uploaded the plugin here - http://www.filedropper.com/testpluginso - in case you'd like to test it. It's a test plugin I've made for a project I'm working on, it consists of just a slider.
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Did you look in the log after scanning?
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sysrqer wrote:Did you look in the log after scanning?
Thanks for the reply, I forgot to subscribe to the thread so only just noticed it! I didn't know there was a log, but I have just looked at it and the plugins for some reason are blacklisted (even Carla). It's strange because the same plugins work fine in Reaper. I'll google it.
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d.healey wrote:
sysrqer wrote:Did you look in the log after scanning?
Thanks for the reply, I forgot to subscribe to the thread so only just noticed it! I didn't know there was a log, but I have just looked at it and the plugins for some reason are blacklisted (even Carla). It's strange because the same plugins work fine in Reaper. I'll google it.
If you click on the top right icon with a red light it will show the log when doing scans and stuff, can be helpful.
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Well I just found something on the Ardour forum about plugins compiled with certain JUCE settings being blacklisted, so I recompiled my plugin with that setting disabled and now it works in Ardour - Hurray!! But carla is still blacklisted... :(
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I'm a little bit late to this conversation, but this still might help while you are developing your plugin. While working on Dragonfly Reverb, I found that I would get more information by launching Ardour from the terminal. I was able to make my plugin print debug information to stdout. It also seemed like Ardour itself sends more details to stdout/stderr than it does in its graphical log.
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Michael Willis wrote:I'm a little bit late to this conversation, but this still might help while you are developing your plugin. While working on Dragonfly Reverb, I found that I would get more information by launching Ardour from the terminal. I was able to make my plugin print debug information to stdout. It also seemed like Ardour itself sends more details to stdout/stderr than it does in its graphical log.
Good tip! I'll keep it in mind.
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