More on the open source audio journey: The Ardour multi-track software does not come with any effects. There are several different effects packages that can be downloaded for free. I'm trying to use one called SWH that has a range of EQs and reverbs. I'm really falling back on my old Unix skills here. There's no installer, per se, for SWH, so it requires using the Linux terminal and compiling the plugins from scratch.
The package does not want to compile, however, because FFTW3 is missing. Hmm. Back to Ubuntu software center and FFTW3 seems to be installed. Ah, but we need the developer version in order to have fftw3.h and other goodies. Back to Ubuntu software center and install libfftw3-dev. Voila, now the SWH package installs and shows up in /usr/local/lib/lv2. Now let's see if we can run some reverb in Ardour.
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