Receptor - tips

[wazzy]

Hi to all fans and experts of the Muse Receptor,

My name is Gérald (French living in Germany) and I am a newcomer in this (very interesting) forum.
I plan to buy a Receptor in the following days to be able to use my VST plugins on stage with my band.

I have a couple of questions for you all:

- do you use a special rack for using your receptor on stage and for protecting it during transport ? How can I avoid to bring a table on stage ?

- when using a workstation and midi-masterkeyboard, does it make sense to plug the first one in the instrument input of repector for mixing purposes ? Doesn't it reduce considerably the efficiency (loading speed, latency...) of your Receptor ?

- Assuming it is possible to do so, can I also use my workstation as a second midi keyboard using a midimerger while its audio output is already plugged in the audio input of my Receptor (I would then use the mixer to mute the audio input or the midi channels coming from said workstation depending on the song I play) ?

- what hardware configuration (RAM, HD) would you recommend to be on the safe side for live performance ?

- when will it be possible to use sampletank v2.1 ?

- same question for X-phraze (Steinberg) ?

Many thanks in advance for your great help !

Kind regards

Gérald

[philosorhymes]

- do you use a special rack for using your receptor on stage and for protecting it during transport ? How can I avoid to bring a table on stage ?
Gérald

I've taken my receptor on stage once. I just had on a keyboard stand. But it is advisable to get a case for it.

- when using a workstation and midi-masterkeyboard, does it make sense to plug the first one in the instrument input of repector for mixing purposes ? Doesn't it reduce considerably the efficiency (loading speed, latency...) of your Receptor ?
Gérald

Sorry I think you'll have to be clearer what you are saying here. When you say plug the first one What do you mean? first one of what?

Let me explain my setup which sounds very much like yours.

I have a Yamaha S90 which I use as a MIDI Master Keyboard as well as a Triton Pro and the receptor. I also have a MOTU sound card. I plug the audio out of the S90, triton and receptor into my MOTU sound card, and the main outs from my sound card to my stereo. (If you don't have a sound card you can use a mixer).

Generally you only feed audio into the receptor if you want to process the audio or are limited for audio inputs on your mixer. Whichever audio IN you use on your receptor is fine. I don't know how much the efficiency of the receptor is affected, but if you have resource hogging VST's then you are likely to see some kind of latencey.

- Assuming it is possible to do so, can I also use my workstation as a second midi keyboard using a midimerger while its audio output is already plugged in the audio input of my Receptor (I would then use the mixer to mute the audio input or the midi channels coming from said workstation depending on the song I play) ?
Gérald

If you have a mixer plug your midi keyboard straight in to the mixer and also plug your receptor straight into your mixer.
Then connect the MIDI out from your keyboard to the midi in on your receptor. This gives your much more control.

- what hardware configuration (RAM, HD) would you recommend to be on the safe side for live performance ?
Gérald

I have 1.256GB of RAM and a large harddrive. With this I can just about manage to have three instances of Spectrasonics atmosphere and one instance of kontakt running (kontakt had a string library loaded)



Phil.

[wazzy]

Thanks for your help Phil although my questions are not so clear (due to my basic english knowledge!!!).
In fact, I was meaning to use TWO Keyboards, one being a Fantom X7 (what I was calling "Workstation" AND the second one being a midi-keyboard from Edirol.
You will now probably better understand the meaning of my questions !!! ;o)