Muse Research needs a Conscience...

[johnrule]

I don't see my Receptor as an all-in-one solution, it's more like the perfect addition to my setup. If I have a gig where I need some basic sounds and a great piano, I activate Ivory. If I have a blues gig, I'll do it with Kontakt 2 playing Scarbee's WEP, and VB3. I usually need a synth or two more, but the Receptor does what none of the other synths do. Direct Install has been a slight disappointment, but for me what it does right now is good enough.

That's it...it's a great addition. I built a PC VST host using V-Stack and was never quite happy with. I just bought a Receptor last week, and I think it is solid. As someone else put it, it "feels like a hardware synth". It does!

I was looking at buying either a PC3x (upgrading from a PC2x), or a Roland 700GX, and I decided to get a Receptor with a midi controller. The PC3X didn't really have anything that new from the PC2 (in my opinion), and the Roland doesn't have digital output. I think I have a lot more options with this setup. I have over 30 of my favorite VSTs online all the time, accessible from my PC or Mac.

JR

[chielio]

Muse did a great job, I have several computers running in my studio .. win xp64 with sonar64 and cubase 64 bit versions and 8 gigs ram. Quad core G 5 8 gigs ram running mainstage/logic/cubase 4. All with rme hdsp cards and apogee cards/convertors.

Very cool and cutting edge technology but still not stable in terms of timing stability when playing live (midi/audio playback is sample accurate).. my workflow is mostly midi first with receptor as monitor, when it runs out of cpu power I transfer the plugin to cubase/logic or just print the audio from the receptor through adat.

In terms of quantity these 64 bit systems blow the receptor away in a breeze, in terms of stability the receptor rocks and blows them away .. in fact, the receptor is the only 'computer' that always works stable and most important, the timing is constant.

For recording midi, I always use the receptor .. no other vst or plugin platform gives me the hardware feeling the receptor gives me. It's the most satisfying machine I've bought next to my trusty old rhodes and B3!
With e-drums .. it simply outperforms everything else on the market, with addictive drums/toontrack/stylus/battery and clearmountain (giga converted to kontakt) it's hard to even tell the difference anymore between live drums. Although I still prefer the real thing if the budget is there .. can't wait for superior 2.0 support.

I don't mind waiting for plugs to be supported, because when it is 'receptorized' you can be sure that it works!

And I can use all my production sounds when playing live!

Don't forget to bring a surge protection ups .. very very important!!!! Once you've experienced a power failure and an initializing receptor on stage it's worth the small investment.

Well .. I'm gonna get a second receptor today .. that true dual core receptor computing total redundant!!

(I grew up with an atari cubase midi and hardware modules, with the receptor I'm sticking to that concept).

[chielio]

I have to mention that I use the receptor only for about 3 months now, and the learning curve has been quite difficult .. but in the process I found out that the implementation of midi is very well thought out.

My dream machine would be a synth with wooden keys optical scanned (qrs optical keyboard scanner) 2 receptors inside with ups connected to apogee convertors .. and the korg M3 operating system on top of that on an elo touchscreen! (maybe a mini-itx inside for audio/playback recording as well) So if any synth designer is willing to build me a prototype and let me endorse it, please pm me!!!!!!! If not (back in the real world now) I'm gonna build it myself next year.

[JPTinAshland]

I thought long and hard about buying a Receptor, and in the end, went for a Mac Pro, 2.8 Ghz 8-core, with 10 GB RAM. The fact that the CPU in the Receptor just can't compete with the Mac Pro made me go the way I went in my purchase.

I don't play live anymore, and to spend over $2k for the Receptor just didn't make sense. It's a great solution for the application it is made for, but I don't agree with their claim that it's a better solution than a computer, as the Receptor simply does not have the horsepower ( nor will it have, from what I can see, in the very near future ), that my Mac Pro has now.