Musical Artifacts is a website that hosts a collection of free, open-source audio plugins, synthesizers, and other digital instruments. If you're running an Ubuntu server and want to install Musical Artifacts, this tutorial should help you get started.
Before you start installing Musical Artifacts, you'll need to make sure your Ubuntu server has the following:
The Musical Artifacts repository is stored on GitHub. To clone it to your local machine, run the following command in a terminal window:
git clone https://github.com/musescore/MusicalArtifacts.git
This will create a new directory called MusicalArtifacts in your current working directory.
Once you have the Musical Artifacts source code on your server, navigate to the plugins directory:
cd MusicalArtifacts/Plugins
This directory contains all of the plugins that Musical Artifacts hosts.
To install a specific plugin, first locate the plugin's directory within the Plugins folder.
For example, let's say you want to install the 'CMT_Orange' plugin. You'd find its corresponding directory within Plugins like so:
cd CMT_Orange
Once you're in the directory for the plugin, you can build and install it with the following command:
sudo make install
It's important to use 'sudo' here, otherwise you may not have permission to install the plugin.
Now that the plugin is installed, you just need to add it to your audio plugin host. To do this, follow these general steps:
Depending on your plugin host, you may need to perform some additional configuration or setup to use the plugin fully.
That's it! With these steps, you should be able to install Musical Artifacts on your Ubuntu Server and start using its collection of free and open-source musical plugins.
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