Hi there,
I recently bought a 2nd hand receptor, and have been trying it out and tweaking it a bit of and on during spare time. I am fairly busy touring with a theatre show, so I don't have much time.
This week I thought I'd give the Receptor a try in a live situation. Also because, whereas normally we consist of me on piano, a bassplayer (both double bass and bassguitar) and a singer, this week we had 3 gigs with enough financial means to take on a drummer. So I thought, if we add drums, let's add some more sounds from my part as well!
Normally I only play grandpiano during the tour, but we've been talking about me taking my Fender Rhodes with me as well for some songs. But as y'all probably know, it's weight actually keeps you from taking it on a gig.
The Receptor seemed the solution. I loaded my Scarbee samples into Kontakt2 on the Receptor. The 24 bit ones, mind you. And I used it tonight during the show, playing it from my Roland XP-50 synth (i dont have a decent controller yet). It totally blew me and my fellow musicians away!
I have a Rev B receptor with 250 gig HD and 1,2 gig RAM. Not one hickup, on 128 buffer setting. Also, I heard people say that the Receptor kind of "enhances" the sound. I didn't believe it, until tonight! It seems to make the sound fatter, brighter and better!
I want to say: Thanks to Muse! This is exactly what I've been looking for.
Regards,
Daan
Excellent Gig tonight using Receptor for the first time live
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- KVRAF
- 3378 posts since 27 Feb, 2004 from Paris (france)
fater and brighter does this mean receptor have its own filter and its own soundcard engine or something like that ?
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- KVRian
- 524 posts since 25 Aug, 2005
This would be a function of the converters and analog output circuits. This box does sound great, everywhere I play the response is, "Wow, what the hell s that? Sounds awesome..."
Congratulations, Curois, on your first 'acid test.'
NOW:
Set up a great acoustic piano as well. When some venue has just an old, beat-up, six-beer piano (the one that has had six beers spilled in it since it was last tuned), try Receptor. Then think Foley or SFX or pipe organ or whatever odd sound set you might need to enhabce the production. Make each setup a Multi preset, and keep a separate bank for "your" multis and "the show's" multis.
Congratulations, Curois, on your first 'acid test.'
NOW:
Set up a great acoustic piano as well. When some venue has just an old, beat-up, six-beer piano (the one that has had six beers spilled in it since it was last tuned), try Receptor. Then think Foley or SFX or pipe organ or whatever odd sound set you might need to enhabce the production. Make each setup a Multi preset, and keep a separate bank for "your" multis and "the show's" multis.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 225 posts since 12 Sep, 2006 from Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Excellent idea! Luckily though, most theatres I play in have at least a decent yamaha grand, but sometimes indeed I have to play on a lousy untuned upright, so an acoustic piano running on receptor is great then. I am getting Akoustik Piano from NI this October (for free hehe 
) so I think I'm gonna try an install that one.
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