Nielso<p>Recently a friend of mine got a new <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> PC for running <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Cubase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cubase</span></a> on it. He installed his previously used software, namely Cubase and <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Voxengo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Voxengo</span></a> audio plugins on the new box.</p><p>When he opened a Cubase project he had copied from his old PC, none of the plugins in that project were detected any more. Even though he had them installed. So he had to open the project on the old machine, write all plugin settings down to paper, re-insert the very same plugins on the new machine into the very same project and restore the settings from his notes.</p><p>I just copied an <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Ardour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ardour</span></a> project from <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/OSX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSX</span></a> to <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/UbuntuStudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UbuntuStudio</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>. I use some Windows <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Voxengo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Voxengo</span></a> plugins on Linux via <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/LinVST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinVST</span></a>, while I use native Voxengo binaries on OS X.</p><p>The Ardour project created on OS X plays on Linux out of the box, using all plugins (given they are installed).</p><p>Just one of these many details in how your <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/DAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DAW</span></a> does certain things.</p>