Things are slowly getting better if you want to run Windows VSTs under Linux. I found this very interesting as a overview of some of the current possibilities:

Things are slowly getting better if you want to run Windows VSTs under Linux. I found this very interesting as a overview of some of the current possibilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsZnSg4DKDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsZnSg4DKDU It is a demonstration for a proprietary DAW, Bitwig, but he does talk a lot about Windows plugins under Linux that I imagine applies to Ardour as well.