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guitarix offers the range of sounds you would expect from a full-featured
-universal guitar-amp. You can get crisp clean-sounds, nice overdrive,
-fat distortion and a diversity of crazy sounds never heard before.
+universal guitar-amp. You can get crisp clean-sounds, nice overdrive, fat
+distortion and a diversity of crazy sounds never heard before. Guitarix
+can be used as a standalone application, as LADSPA plugins, or as LV2
+plugins.
meterbridge is an optional runtime dependency.
-Guitarix can be used as a standalone application, as LADSPA plugins,
-or as LV2 plugins. By default, all three are built. To disable LV2, set
-LV2=no in the script's environment (you will still need lilv installed,
-however). The script author hasn't tested LV2 support.
+By default, the package is built with SSE support if the host CPU supports
+SSE. If building for another host, you can set SSE=no in the environment
+to build without it.
+
+Starting with version 0.34.0, guitarix can browse and download presets
+from the web, using the 'Online' button in the preset selector. To
+enable this feature, install webkitgtk before building guitarix. To
+disable this feature (even if webkitgtk is installed), set WEBKIT=no in
+the environment.
This package uses POSIX filesystem capabilities to execute with
elevated privileges (required for realtime audio processing). This