I just returned my Receptor:
Small Problems - Unit kept turning off and rebooting, at least about 6-7 times while I had the unit it could not be recognized by my Mac through ethernet finally after a couple of restarts it would finally get on board. ----.pdf manual???? What's that - for $1400 there should at least be a physical manual.
Big Problems: Processor - - - You say the unit is streamlined and capable. After installing Kontakt (Which by the way requires 512mb and in this day and age any interface or computer needing RAM should come standard with at least 512mb, luckily I can also return the RAM I had to buy to try out this unit) I only loaded one preset - Steinway with convolution, as I know this is a processor hog. Well I could only get it down to 256 samples, which is not bad in stand alone but with that same preset I can get my G5 down to 64 samples running it through DP$ as an Audio Unit. The Receptor at 128 started cracking up and stop the sounds. - This is in contrast to what your rep had told me when I demoed it at the Music Store "This thing will blow away your G5 with Kontakt".....It didn't. And don't even talk about Uniwire it cracked up at 2048 samples in the VST host.....I tried to set the sample rate of the Receptor to 256 or more but it always kept defaulting back to 128 samples in uniwire mode....what gives.... So for me it is useless...I didn't even get to the surround presets.
Midi - - - This thing sucks regarding midi....Like I've told some other people, I am not a programmer, I spend enough time learning to play my intruments, I shouldn't have to waste more time trying learn how to set up and play the interfaces that supplement my instruments. What happened to "Click learn...move a fader or rotary knob....save the preset.....your ready to go. That's how midi should be, I dont want to spend hours doing data entry. Which reminds me also fix the USB Midi thing I have an evolution UC-33 and a MK-425 (both Mac and XP class compliant) only the one that was hooked up to the USB port in the front would be recognized and I did switch them to make sure they both worked....and also when starting up the Receptor if one of the controllers was hooked up to the USB slots in the back the Receptor would almost get started and then some message about a failure would come up and ask to reboot....and beleive me it took a while to figure what was happening, luckily by chance I decided to see if taking the controller out of the back might have something to do with it and it did.
Muse Research - You have a great Idea but I feel you have still missed the mark....Upgrade the processor this thing is at least a couple years old....Software development isn't slowing down so you guys have got to keep up.
I'll give it about a year, I hope you guys come up with a killer unit by next year for NAAM, I would be very interested but for now I think I will get a laptop. Hopefully someone will take wormhole to the next level and I can use a computer that takes about 2 hrs to set up, not 2 or more days.
I am not trying to be a jerk or badmouth Muse Research but this was just my experience and maybe a sort of wishlist for the next Revision, I am sure there are many out there who are quite happy with what they bought, I am just not one of them.
So best of luck.
