I can't be that stupid - can I ?

[DanTimis]

So to make a long story shorter, I do have faith in you folks at Muse and I want believe you will try your best to do what you have said you are going to do and deliver a uniwire based package.

Thanks for believing in us and sticking with Receptor

This will seem brazen and crass and I am sorry but I know of no other method of getting the following point across. The Muse site seems to lead many reasonable folks to believe uniwire is a part of Receptor. If there is to be some kind of upcharge to get a version of the uniwire or if it happens to be hardware based which requires additional expense on my part,I promise you this. The proverbial stuff will hit the fan. Virginia I am told, is a leader in agressively prosecuting internet based/interstate advertising fraud. I am sorry to be so frank about this matter, but that is were we are at now based on my experience so far. I will very shortly loose my ability to return Receptor to GC so I must be clear about this - based on what you and others have explained, Receptor is useless to me without uniwire.

Rest assured that UniWire will be a free upgrade.

To make sure to the extent that it is possible, that UniWire will perform as well as you expect in your configuration, please tell us a little bit more about your equipment. I am particularly interested in your Ethernet configuration, do you have a router? do you have a DSL or cable modem? or do you use a crossover cable between your computer and Receptor? I understand that you are using Sonar. What kind of audio interface do you have? I am not interested in other MIDI synths you might have, only Ethernet, VST host application, and audio card.

[pianodano]

Dan,

Thank you again. You are very understanding. What an asset you are to Muse research.

I do use sonar v4.0 Pro but will soon upgrade to 5. I have not installed any of the 4 update patches. I am not currently using a router. I am using a crossover cable for Receptor. All audio i/o is accomplished via a Tascam DM24 digital mixer which uses a Tascam 24 channel if/fw i/o (WDM seems to work much better that ASIO)card via firewire. Everything is clocked to the Dm24 generally at 48k. But clocking will soon be handled by a Big Ben.

Believe it or not, I am using a off the shelf 32bit HP P4 running xp w/dual monitors and just about all possible services turned off.
It has 2 gb of ram installed, a 2oo gb 7200rpm internal and 250 gb external drive. The DAW is never nor has it ever been connected to the net. I have followed most of the recommended tweaking to tune the machine as much as possible for audio. Contrary to what most everyone says, it runs much more efficently with hyperthreading enabled. I have 1 UAD Ultra pak/card installed in the machine.

Midi i/o is handled as follows

Yamaha USB1 16-i/o channels - direct to instrument
Yamaha USB2 16-i/o channels - direct to instrument
midiman 8x8 usb - 8 ports in use
midiman 1x1 usb 16 channels
Maudio prokeys 88 - via usb

Control surfaces - DM24 using custom template, Frontier Tranzport and Prokeys transport template only.

I really have not been able to determine the limitations of the machine. I often run 2 and sometimes 3 instances of EWSO/Konpakt, a instance of RealGuitar and BFD (Stereo outputs). I will sometimes reach 70% CPU usage with maybe 24 audio tracks running and maybe 16-20 midi tracks. when tracking I do not monitor through the DAW. It is done through the Control Room and or studio outs of the mixer - so latency is not an issue. Sometimes I will have to up the latency to 20-30 ms on playbeck to keep the cpu at a more comfortable level. The machine is exceptionaly noise free.

Sonar does such an incredible job of keeping all of this stuff perfectly in sync (I cannot recommend Cakewalk Sonar enough). This machine has been running as configued for well over 1 1/2 years. It boots right now (really quick). It took me several attempts to find a machine that handled everything but this one does it without fail. (KOW) Since my having become more interested in the higher end libraries it made sense to me to investigate either another machine dedicated to just sample playback via fxteleport. But then I learned about your product and it seemed to be capable of doing just what I was looking for.

So anyway, I am glad to be on board with you folks. I am not very literate in the intricasies of how all this stuff works together. I just know that when it works, It is awesome and, I very excited about having Receptor integrated into my set up. Receptor does work perfectly as a stand alone sample player although I a often see the cpu meter peaked with a Collosus Steinway layered with a string sample. I know nothing about it's true horesepower, so to speak.

Thanks again and sorry if I gave you more info than you wanted to know.

Danny

[DanTimis]

Thanks. I looked at the manual and in the Control Panel there is a slider "WDM sound buffer depth" The example shows it at 10.0 ms 480 samples. What is the buffer size you are using?

[pianodano]

Thanks. I looked at the manual and in the Control Panel there is a slider "WDM sound buffer depth" The example shows it at 10.0 ms 480 samples. What is the buffer size you are using?

Dan,

10.0 ms - 448 samples

Thanks

Danny