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VIP Music · Post by **VIP Music** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:24 am

Sounds very interesting.

One question, how powerful is the Receptor's CPU? RAM? What's it comparable to?

I'd like to have an idea of whether I can run 3-4 VI's like Absynth and Reaktor while also running EWQLSO, etc...

Would appreciate any observations concerning this, both official from Muse and users presently running Receptors...

Thanks!

Arys Chien · Post by **Arys Chien** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:32 am

Hi Michael,

Paul and I have done some tests. It looks like you can see it as a P4-3G CPU, with about 5% more since it doesn't have to run WinXP.

Basically it's a computer. You can see everything that you'll see on a regular PC during the boot-up, including memory check, hardware check, etc..

The good thing is that when you turn it off, it's not like shutting down a PC entirely. It's more like a "sleep mode", which, when you turn it back on again, keep all the original status when you turned it off earlier, including the patchs you loaded and changes you made.

VIP Music · Post by **VIP Music** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:39 am

About the 'sleep mode', that's when the unit is still plugged into power, right?

Also, about the tests, did you do any 'maximum VSTi tests'? Care to share some of the details?

oGG · Post by **oGG** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:41 am

My guess is that they use a version of suspend-to-disk. That is, it saves everything loaded in RAM to the swap partition on the harddrive at shutdown, and when it starts the next time it reloads whatever was running. Resulting in a faster startup.

If that's the case, then you don't have to keep the unit plugged in for it to "remember". If this isn't the case. Maybe I just came up with something to implement in future versions?

(Hint: http://www.suspend2.net/)

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Olle Gustafsson

VIP Music · Post by **VIP Music** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:18 am

OK, that's it! I'm getting one!

gregh1 · Post by **gregh1** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:13 pm

Yes, it acts like a kind of suspend-to-disk, so you can unplug and ship it and it will come up the way it was before you turned it off. Also, it saves it's state at regular intervals, so if one of your plug-ins goes wild and crashes, Receptor will reboot where it left off (that's good when developing your own plugins).

VIP Music · Post by **VIP Music** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:43 pm

gregh1 wrote: Receptor will reboot where it left off (that's good when developing your own plugins).

That's great! The last thing I need while arranging is something crashing and needing to reload everything the way it was...

ludwig · Post by **ludwig** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:51 pm

Maybe a stupid question: if it's like a pc, does it need a virus scanner (and witch os does it use)?

Arys Chien · Post by **Arys Chien** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:37 pm

Hi Michael,

I think I need to be more specific about the "sleep mode". It's not like you turn it off, and then when you turn it on again, everything is still in the RAM.

It still takes the same time re-loading.

The good news is that it doesn't crash like our PCs.

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The OS is Linux. I don't think there'd be a virus, since you can't run your own applications in there.

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How powerful is the Receptor's CPU?