Guitar Rig 2 on Receptor + more questions

[Sascha Franck]

I would love to know how this performs.
From what I seem to understand, Receptor is using an Athlon 2500+ XP CPU. Something multiple instances of GR2 (say, about 3) would allready use around 50% at least on an "average" desktop (of course depending on the complexity of the GR2 patches).
What are some example figures on Receptor?

Next question: How do you control host synced plugins in a live context?
I totally depend on things such as tap tempo delays. Is there anything such as a tap tempo feature on Receptor? Couldn't find any info on the MuseResearch site.

Next question: What's the MIDI routing and manipulating like? Are there any "transformers" and the likes?
I'm a guitar player, I need to control things with certain foot pedals, mainly via program changes.
Is there a way to route, say, program changes to mixer mute settings only?
I wouldn't use program changes to actually switch my GR2 programs, I want them to stay the same (think about it like using a 3 channel hardware amp) and would switch between sounds using channel mutes. FWIW, this is possible via Energy XT - would it work in Receptor as well?
The same goes for FX sends. I won't switch programs on my FX themselves (I need "global" control over them) but use program changes to mute/activate FX sends and inserts.

Actually, the last issue would be the most important one for me to even consider Receptor. Again, the MuseResearch site doesn't say much about it.

Thanks for any enlightenment in advance.

- Sascha

[Watto]

Hi Sascha,

I'll leave most of those for the others, but as for the tap tempo thing, you'll definitely need one of these - http://www.ploytec.com/34one/

They work great.

[Sascha Franck]

I'll leave most of those for the others, but as for the tap tempo thing, you'll definitely need one of these - http://www.ploytec.com/34one/

Ah! That's looking great (regardless of things being used in Receptor or not).
But I can do these things with a plain pedal in eXT allready...
Plus, they don't tell you anything about the pricing.

Hm...

[Watto]

Hmmm, yeah, when you click on the order link it says it's backordered.

Don't remember it being outrageously expensive...

[raintalk]

Just confirming - IK Amplitude 2 does not run on the Receptor?

[Sascha Franck]

Well, AT2 is requiring a dongle and they can gladly f**k up other users with that shit, not me. There's gonna be no dongle anyhwere even close to my live setup at all.

Anyways, as far as it looks like, there's not much of an option to have Receptor do what I'd need. Seems I need to use the laptop and eXT. Not quite appealing because the laptop surely doesn't like spilled beers and the likes. But hey, there's allways plastic bags.

[Briggity]

Next question: What's the MIDI routing and manipulating like? Are there any "transformers" and the likes?
I'm a guitar player, I need to control things with certain foot pedals, mainly via program changes.
Is there a way to route, say, program changes to mixer mute settings only?
I wouldn't use program changes to actually switch my GR2 programs, I want them to stay the same (think about it like using a 3 channel hardware amp) and would switch between sounds using channel mutes. FWIW, this is possible via Energy XT - would it work in Receptor as well?
The same goes for FX sends. I won't switch programs on my FX themselves (I need "global" control over them) but use program changes to mute/activate FX sends and inserts.

Sascha,

GR2 does not officially work on Receptor just yet, but I've been told it's coming soon. GR1 perfroms great on Receptor. The v. 1.5 introduced mixer snapshots, which do exactly what you describe above - muting channels and bypassing inserts, etc., in response to MIDI program changes. in addition, if you have Z-Load enabled, you can switch entire setups very quickly - the plugins are buffered in RAM for seamless loading.

I've added your idea for global tap-tempo to the 'new features' thread here in the forum. At present you would have to use a MIDI CC mapped to the tap-tempo in Guitar Rig, but of course that wouldn't apply to any other effects you wanted to sync. If your footcontroller can send MIDI clock, you can also set Receptor to external MIDI sync.

Brian

[Sascha Franck]

Thanks for the explanation, Brian.
Will keep watching the development. I'm seriously scared of having my laptop on stages with beers and whatever flying through the air - after all, laptops are no Marshalls (mine once took a beer shower. Dryed it with a hairdryer and the next day it was all fine again).

[asseca]

BTW, does energyXT work on Receptor ??