Muse Research

boomboyz · Post by **boomboyz** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:14 am

Anybody here sucessfully using reFX Vanguard on Receptor? I'm finding the implementation poor at best. I can rarely use it on more than one channel at a time and any attempts to instanciate more than one will often result in no sound coming from any of the Vanguards. Rebuilding the plugin chance has no effect on this.

I really like this plug and have lots of banks for it so it's a shame the functionality doesn't appear to be up to scratch on Receptor.

chalaby · Post by **chalaby** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:24 am

Hi Simon,

I use Vanguard all the time and although it is a resource hog it works fine on my Receptor. How much RAM does your Receptor have? Are you running other plug-ins at the same time?

Best
Chris

boomboyz · Post by **boomboyz** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:07 pm

I have the latest Receptor Pro (2Gb RAM) - surely more than enough! The problems only occur when I have Vanguard on channel one and then try to insert on two or higher: the second instance won't receive any MIDI or make any sound and, in some cases, also stops the channel one VG from working. As soon as I insert another instrument on the second channel (instead of VG) then I get MIDI reception (channel light flashes) and the instrument sounds so the problem appears to be with Vanguard's reaction to Receptor. I've tried re-installing but the problem persists.

philosorhymes · Post by **philosorhymes** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:40 pm

Hi boomboyz, the receptor patch that you are using with vanguard, is it loaded from boot up? If it is, try loading a blank patch and then reloading the patch with vanguard inserted. I have had a similar problem with piano sounds on Kontakt 2.2. The problem only happens when I boot up the box with the receptor patch that has the kontakt 2.2 piano sound. I normally have to load a different receptor patch and then reload the patch. It works after this.

boomboyz · Post by **boomboyz** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:28 am

Thanks philosorhymes, that's certainly helped. I found that if I shut down Receptor with an empty multi (so that it booted up with a blank canvass) I could insert multiple Vanguards. Problem solved!

philosorhymes · Post by **philosorhymes** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:12 pm

Glad that helped boomboyz, I've had this problem for a while now, perhaps you could report it to muse as well. Looks like there will not be a fix for this kind of problem until the new software version is released.

boomboyz · Post by **boomboyz** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:22 pm

The word from Muse is that it will be fixed in v1.6 (due May).

philosorhymes · Post by **philosorhymes** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:05 pm

Well untill then I guess we'll just have to grit our teeth and bare it. It has caused me quite some headache, I always use this particular setup of mine and normally I shut down in a hurry or Receptor crashes and shuts down. This means the patch I was last using will load on next boot up, which is the patch with the piano sound. So I wait for that to load then unload it and then load it again. Not great eh! It's a hot issue for me. I need to probably find something else to use for my pianos.

rudy g · Post by **rudy g** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:29 pm

boomboyz wrote:The word from Muse is that it will be fixed in v1.6 (due May).

I have experienced similar 'non-start' issues with plug-ins. I have noticed that my problems are only related to plug-ins I have purchased [that were originally pre-installed demos that I liked], namely Z3ta+ and Beast. It has put me off buying any more plug-ins in the meantime.

When you say the problems will be fixed in v1.6, do you mean this start problem with plug-ins generally, or just Vanguard?

thesoundsmith · Post by **thesoundsmith** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:08 am

I can't answer for Muse, but it appears thazt it corrects a number of small issues (not small to us users, but small compared to the whole box crashing, or accepting Synchrosoft dongles...) Should be out real soon.

rudy g · Post by **rudy g** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:44 pm

Since loading v1.6 most of my problems with plug-ins not starting have gone...except reFX plug-ins, namely Beast and Claw. These often fail to emit any sound as part of a bunch of patches I have in each 'song' on Receptor. I had not notied this earlier but returning to som older song patches, the problem is still there with my reFX plug-ins.