Two keyboards

[Johnkaos]

Hello everybody.

I'm going to buy a Muse Receptor IK Total Workstation Rack but I'm using two keyboards with my laptop: an Emu XBoard 61 and Evolution mk461c.

Have anyone problems running two masterkeyboards connected by USB?

Thanks in advance

[looneytunes]

Hello everybody.

I'm going to buy a Muse Receptor IK Total Workstation Rack but I'm using two keyboards with my laptop: an Emu XBoard 61 and Evolution mk461c.

Have anyone problems running two masterkeyboards connected by USB?

Thanks in advance

Yeah - problems. You can't use more than one USB keyboard with receptor. You can however use a combination of a USB keyboard and a MIDI keyboard. You can also use multiple MIDI keyboards with a MIDI merger.

BTW, the XBoard makes a nice master keyboard with Receptor. I use 2 in my gigging rig.

Regards,
Kevin L

[Johnkaos]

Thanks looneytunes

So I can plug in the USB slot the Xboard and the Evolution in the MidiIn of Receptor, am I right?

Only one more question to buy this great machine:
I have seen in the toturial the Multi Option but, how can I configure in Muse Receptor each channel to assign to one of these keyboards?

Thankss

[looneytunes]

Thanks looneytunes

So I can plug in the USB slot the Xboard and the Evolution in the MidiIn of Receptor, am I right?

Only one more question to buy this great machine:
I have seen in the toturial the Multi Option but, how can I configure in Muse Receptor each channel to assign to one of these keyboards?

Thankss

Hi Again,

Yes - that's right, XBoard powers and plays just fine from USB, and your other controller will be just fine in Receptor MIDI-in.

The Receptor UI's main page is the 'Mixer view'. You can click on any individual Receptor channel to affect all things on that channel, including the VSTi (and VST fx) assigned, presets for each, ... You can also select the Midi-recieve channel that each Receptor channel responds to. Typically, many people simply leave the Receptor and MIDI channels the same (eg. Recept channel 1 assigned to MIDI channel 1), however, there is no reason you can't change this. In fact, you can assign multiple Receptor channels to the same MIDI channels to build up layers. Clicking on the 'channel' button, (just under the instrument and preset select pulldowns) for each Receptor channel allow you to configure this.

When you are all done with setting up each of the Receptor channels, you simply name and save this as a Multi.


From the XBoard, since you have multi-channel transmit, I often configure different soft-synths on one of each of the 4 different midi channels, and mute and unmute from the XBoard as needed - that's very flexible!

Regards,
Kevin L