Can Muse give an update on 1.6?

[ksiragusa]

Can their local distributers do the K4 install?

[tripjack]

Be forwarned, despite following installating instructions to the letter, the 1.6 update completely broke my receptor (now boots up into nothing). Not quite sure how Muse managed to launch a product this morning before anybody was in the office, but hopefully they'll be in soon to provide some tech support for this new release!

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ok, finally got through. might have to send the unit in for repair!

[Littidy]

I ended up with the same issue trip...but not to fear I sent mine in and they will fix it up and hopefully make it even more stable. no worries.

[MartinHines]

I found out via plugorama ticket that there's a big difference between "support for Komplete 4" and actually being able to install it. A user installer for K4 was NOT part of the 1.6 update. At this point, if you want K4 installed, you can send your Receptor to them and they'll install it for $200.

That is extremely disappointing. So new potential customers can buy a Receptor with Komplete 4 preinstalled AND get 2 additional Komplete 4 activations while existing Receptor owners have to send their units back to Muse AND pay $200 to get Komplete 4 installed?

Also, whatever happened to support for Synthogy's Italian Grand Fazioli and MusicLab's Real Guitar, which were announced on January 18th, 2007, over five months ago?
http://www.museresearch.com/news.php?id=83

I like the concept of the Receptor and I would like the company to be successful. However they seem to be unable to deliver new plugin support in a timely fashion.

[oGG]

Be forwarned, despite following installating instructions to the letter, the 1.6 update completely broke my receptor (now boots up into nothing). Not quite sure how Muse managed to launch a product this morning before anybody was in the office, but hopefully they'll be in soon to provide some tech support for this new release!

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ok, finally got through. might have to send the unit in for repair!

I had the same problem. It seems that after I updated to 1.6 the Receptor insisted on doing a fsck of my root partition. (After investigation a bit it seems Muse have change the default fstab a bit. I don't know if it's intentional but before, the sixth field was set to 0 (which tells fsck to always assume the partition is clean and never to run fsck), and now it's set to 1). This took a loooong while since I have a big harddrive.

Anyway, I first thought something had broke. But after connecting a keyboard and monitor and disabled the bootup screen I could see that it was fscking the disk. (Maybe it wasn't such a good idea not to install a LED light for the harddrive after all =P ). My drive is dead quiet and it's totally impossible to hear it work when mounted in a rack.

I don't have time to explain exactly how to disable the boot screen so you can see what's going on, but If you contact the Muse guys I'm sure they can guide you through the steps.

I can give a few hints thou:

1. Connect a monitor and keyboard to your Receptor
2. Power on the Receptor and press 'e' on your keyboard.
3. Edit the grub boot line

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kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x317 splash=silent ide0=ata66

and remove vga=0x317 and splash=silent (not sure the latter one is necessary, but it has no sexual meaning if you remove it or not).
4. After you completed editing, press Enter (two times?) and then 'b' to boot the kernel.
5. Now you should't be blind and see what's going on when the Receptor boots.
6. After you're done you can reboot the Receptor and this time hopefully it shouldn't take forever to boot =D.

Disclaimer: I wrote the above real quick and haven't verified the steps. If you don't feel up to trying it, don't.


--
Olle Gustafsson

[Littidy]

Martin...I must stick up for them. If you read all the post you'd find that the Ivory Italian Grand is soon to have an installer on Plugorama and Synthogy is complete an upgrade on their part to improve their code to make it optimal on Receptor. Real Guitar works on Receptor in beta and will have an installer soon as well. Be patient as they are a company of few and have a lot of good stuff they are doing to make this product suit everyones needs.
Now, Muse, seriously...I need that Truepianos thing figured out so I can enjoy my license of that....of course after I get my Receptor returned to me.

Later

[tripjack]

Thanks for the help Ollie, but unfortunately it didn't solve anything in my case. The Muse guys had me do something that gave me a similar result as your solution (it shows you a bunch of stuff on bootup and lists them as green "OK") - I do have one item near the very bottom that comes up red instead of green, but it goes by so fast there's no way to see what it is that is failing, and then I'm immediately into a crashed bootup. Muse said I'll have to send it in, too bad I don't have any sort of box or anything for it, it might just end up a very expensive paperweight at this point. Woulda been nice if they knew about this sort of thing before they released updates, I guess there wasn't much testing done before hand. Performance was so bad before the update my Receptor was almost useless anyway, I was hoping the 1.6 update would give me a little help running Ivory but now I can't run anything at all! Happy day!

FWIW, what I end up with is a little green box in the top left corner of the screen that says "xterm" and a cool 3x3 grid with a title bar (looks like a mini-calandar) that moves around the screen when I move my mouse. Kinda groovy effect, but not much help when trying to make piano sounds. The item that comes up red in the boot list is the 3rd from the end - I tried taking a video of it as it goes by with my camera, but the text isn't legible so I still don't know what it is.

[MartinHines]

Martin...I must stick up for them. If you read all the post you'd find that the Ivory Italian Grand is soon to have an installer on Plugorama and Synthogy is complete an upgrade on their part to improve their code to make it optimal on Receptor. Real Guitar works on Receptor in beta and will have an installer soon as well.

I understand problems can arise but Muse should not have then made a big announcement about the support of these two products at Winter NAMM.

[Littidy]

True...but I can't blame them for advertising at such an event. Roland released some stuff that still hasn't shipped.

[farhan]

have to agree, i was hoping mainly for the windows installer ability in this update...really want to use my non-receptorized plugins (like amplitube2 and ampeg). honestly...the box has been sitting around mainly unused due to some missing plugins (and also--i'm kinda lazy enough to not want to turn on another box if i'm running my computer for the main plugin i use) -- was hoping the receptor became more of the box i used and the computer was the one collecting more dust.... --hopefully soon?!

Ampeg SVX is now supported User Installable from plugorama.

farhan

[pthuriot]

sweet! tho what about amplitube 2? any word on that one...don't see it anywhere. tho maybe i'm missing it.

[farhan]

No amplitube 2 yet.. sorry..

farhan