Interested in buying a Receptor

[Kenny D]

Hi, noob here!

This unit looks cool. I spent a long time on the phone with Muse yesterday discussing my particular problem.

I am trying to run Native Instruments Acoustik Piano and B4 in Protools 7.3.1. To make a long story short, glisandos on either instrument do not track accurately. It seems that RTAS is very, very inefficient when running VI plugins. To make matters worse, Digi has apparently stopped cooperating with Muse on supplying an RTAS plug in for Uniwire so PT will not talk to the Receptor via uniwire.

I already spent $1000 on the Komplete 4 Bundle when I bought my studio hardware. The stuff does not run correctly.

Will a Receptor solve my problem? It is pricey but it looks like it will do the trick and let me run my virtual instruments across MIDI.

Can you folks give me the honest pros and cons?

Thanks in advance.

[thesoundsmith]

FWIW, I have never used Uniwire, it's just as efficient (for me) to use a MIDI cable, and not worry about it. My only downside comment is that I personally think of this unit as a live performance tool rather than a studio player, just because if that was ALL I was going to use it for, I'd be better off with a decent desktop machine and decent audio card. For me, as a live box, it kicks some serious booty, and the studio use is just gravy.

Agian, YMMV.

[Skytouch]

I haven't tried running Komplete in PTLE, but this year I picked up a Receptor Komplete 5 specifically to stabilize VI performance in the studio. So far, so good. CPU load on the Mac G5 is much more predictable (and lower), and VST performance in Receptor is generally solid. I use Akoustik and Elektrik Piano mostly, and normally track with PTLE in low latency mode. Sky