How To Install mda-lv2 on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mda-lv2 on Ubuntu.
What is mda-lv2
mda-lv2 is:
This package provides Paul Kellett’s MDA plugins ported to the LV2 specification.
LV2 (LADSPA version 2) is an open standard for plugins and matching host applications, mainly targeted at audio processing and generation.
This package provides the following synths and effects:
- Ambience - Reverb effect
- Bandisto - Multi-band distortion
- BeatBox - Drum replacer
- Combo - Amp & speaker simulation
- De-ess - High frequency dynamics processor
- Degrade - Sample quality reduction
- Delay - Simple stereo delay with feedback tone control
- Detune - Simple up/down pitch shifting thickener
- Dither - Range of dither types including noise shaping
- DubDelay - Delay with feedback saturation and time/pitch modulation
- DX10 - FM Synthesizer
- Dynamics - Compressor / Limiter / Gate
- EPiano - Acoustic piano
- Image - Stereo image adjustment and M-S matrix
- JX10 - 2-Oscillator analog synthesizer
- Leslie - Rotary speaker simulator
- Limiter - Opto-electronic style limiter
- Loudness - Equal loudness contours for bass EQ and mix correction
- Multiband - Multi-band compressor with M-S processing modes
- Overdrive - Soft distortion
- Piano
- RePsycho - Drum loop pitch changer
- RezFilter - Resonant filter with LFO and envelope follower
- RingMod - Ring modulator with sine-wave oscillator
- Round Panner - 3D panner
- Shepard - Continuously rising/falling tone generator
- Splitter - Frequency / level crossover for setting up dynamic processing
- Stereo Simulator - Haas delay and comb filtering
- Sub-Bass Synthesizer - Several low frequency enhancement methods
- Talkbox - High resolution vocoder
- TestTone - Signal generator with pink and white noise, impulses and sweeps
- Thru-Zero Flanger - Classic tape-flanging simulation
- Tracker - Pitch tracking oscillator, or pitch tracking EQ
- Transient - Transient shaper
- VocInput - Pitch tracking oscillator for generating vocoder carrier input
- Vocoder - Switchable 8 or 16 band vocoder
These plugins make no claim of compatibility, or any other relation, to VST. This code does not require the VST SDK, or any other non-free software, and it has never come into contact with any part of the VST SDK.
There are three methods to install mda-lv2 on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mda-lv2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mda-lv2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mda-lv2
Install mda-lv2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mda-lv2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mda-lv2
Install mda-lv2 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mda-lv2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mda-lv2
How To Uninstall mda-lv2 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the mda-lv2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mda-lv2
Uninstall mda-lv2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mda-lv2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mda-lv2
Remove mda-lv2 Configurations and Data
To remove mda-lv2 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mda-lv2
Remove mda-lv2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mda-lv2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mda-lv2
Dependencies
mda-lv2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mda-lv2 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.