Muse Receptor questions.....

H-Rezz · 27th February 2006

Does anybody have any experience with this box ?

I can't seem to find answers to questions on their site.......

How fast is the cpu on it ? at least some type of comparison to a pc !

How does it sync with your DAW of choice ? One thing i like about running Soft Synths is that their timing is awesome , something i never like about midi,if it's timing is midi this would be a drag .....

If i load for example EWQLSO Orchestra how many intruments before it starts to die because it's running out of grunt ? Bearing in mind this library is cpu intensive even for fast host computers with plenty of RAM.....

Thank you in advance...

DaveH · 28th February 2006

I am not going to be that helpful.

I had a Receptor for one day and sent it back.

Problems for me were:

1. There are NO restore disks or anyway to recover a system.
You have to get a formatted hard-drive from the factory.
(This was verified via their tech support). There is no easy/
legal way to back up the receptor either.

I don’t know about you but I can’t stop my business
while I wait for a hard drive.

2. There are too many VST instruments that the unit “no longer”
supports or will not support. This includes keys from I believe Arturia software.
(I was told the key for Arturia brass was no longer supported).

I am still looking for a unit like this without these limitations.

jcschild · 28th February 2006

HI,

for the cost of that unit your better of buying another computer and using it as a VSTi box as well as plug ins.

Scott
ADK

Muso · 23rd March 2007

Hi folks -

It's been over a year since this post and Muse introduced their re-wire technology. Just wondering whether any people were using the new receptors and how they were finding it..

CustomDigi · 23rd March 2007

I have had a receptor since before UniWire was released (Rev. B with 2gb RAM/160 gb HD) and I have always really loved it. The best way to kind of conceptualize it is a multitimbral hardware synth that you can load up with most popular plug-ins. For instance, I use Stylus/Atmosphere/Trilogy/Ivory simultaneously without any hit on my DAW computer (which is a Powerbook G4 1.5ghz). Ivory barely runs at the highest latency (unplayable in real time) when used on this relatively modest laptop, but I can play it with 48 voices at a sample buffer of 32 on my Receptor (using Triton as midi keyboard controller) which is pretty damn good. Very responsive. BFD runs for crap on my powerbook but absolutely smokes on my receptor at 64 sample buffer.

With uniwire, I can now use sonalksis eq/comp, as well as vintage warmer and all the other PSP stuff among other things as a plug in within Cubase...again, without taxing the CPU on the daw. Latency is automatically set to DOUBLE what your DAW is running at but with PDC in Cubase it is transparent.

For me it is important to have a laptop and while these power issues are seemingly becoming less and less of a problem with all the duo core laptops, etc. I have grown accustomed to and quite fond of my receptor. For live use, I can see it being damn near the holy grail, but I love mine and it never leaves the studio.

-Matt
Fort Lauderdale

Muso · 23rd March 2007

Thanks Matt. I'm particularly interested in loading it up with the East West Symphonic Gold Libs as I like the idea of 'it's there and ready to go' (rather than waiting an eternity for mega-sized libraries to load).

micaofboca · 10th October 2008

1. There are NO restore disks or anyway to recover a system.
You have to get a formatted hard-drive from the factory.
(This was verified via their tech support). There is no easy/
legal way to back up the receptor either.

Hi, Dave. Forgive my ignorance, but is it possible to order the Receptor with a formatted hard-drive? But what exactly are we backing up? All my performance data is stored in SONAR on my DAW computer. Do you mean the settings that were applied for each performance? What in the Receptor needs backing up since all of the song's music is stored on the primary computer running Sonar and is easily backed up? Thanks, because I'm interested in reducing the latency of my Kontakt driven instruments as well as freeing my CPU of the load while even supplying better effects than Kontakt and which are applied outside the computer, too. Sounds idyllic, especially to someone who isn't sophisticated enough to figure out a second computer's configurations to achieve the same thing less the effects processor and zillion samples it comes bundled with in KOMPLETE 5.

27th February 2006	#1
H-Rezz Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,741 Thread Starter	Muse Receptor questions..... Does anybody have any experience with this box ? I can't seem to find answers to questions on their site....... How fast is the cpu on it ? at least some type of comparison to a pc ! How does it sync with your DAW of choice ? One thing i like about running Soft Synths is that their timing is awesome , something i never like about midi,if it's timing is midi this would be a drag ..... If i load for example EWQLSO Orchestra how many intruments before it starts to die because it's running out of grunt ? Bearing in mind this library is cpu intensive even for fast host computers with plenty of RAM..... Thank you in advance...

28th February 2006	#2
DaveH Gear maniac Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Northern California Posts: 288	I am not going to be that helpful. I had a Receptor for one day and sent it back. Problems for me were: 1. There are NO restore disks or anyway to recover a system. You have to get a formatted hard-drive from the factory. (This was verified via their tech support). There is no easy/ legal way to back up the receptor either. I don’t know about you but I can’t stop my business while I wait for a hard drive. 2. There are too many VST instruments that the unit “no longer” supports or will not support. This includes keys from I believe Arturia software. (I was told the key for Arturia brass was no longer supported). I am still looking for a unit like this without these limitations. __________________ Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung - Voltaire

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micaofboca Gear interested Joined: Oct 2008 Location: Boca Raton, Florida Posts: 4	1. There are NO restore disks or anyway to recover a system. You have to get a formatted hard-drive from the factory. (This was verified via their tech support). There is no easy/ legal way to back up the receptor either. Hi, Dave. Forgive my ignorance, but is it possible to order the Receptor with a formatted hard-drive? But what exactly are we backing up? All my performance data is stored in SONAR on my DAW computer. Do you mean the settings that were applied for each performance? What in the Receptor needs backing up since all of the song's music is stored on the primary computer running Sonar and is easily backed up? Thanks, because I'm interested in reducing the latency of my Kontakt driven instruments as well as freeing my CPU of the load while even supplying better effects than Kontakt and which are applied outside the computer, too. Sounds idyllic, especially to someone who isn't sophisticated enough to figure out a second computer's configurations to achieve the same thing less the effects processor and zillion samples it comes bundled with in KOMPLETE 5.