Trouble getting Midi cc messages to work with Receptor

[tonysounds]

I'm having great difficulty getting my Receptor to respond to midi cc
messages like volume, and modulation. It works with some products (like
B4, Pro 53, MTron), but not many others like CS80v, Atmosphere, Virtual
String Machine and OPX/OPX Pro bundle.

Any suggestions?

[TWB121234]

You may know (or be doing) this already, but make sure that the "Route Midi CCs to Source Plugin Box" is checked. And here's what got me on a similar thing for a time - that checked box is not global, but programable per Multi patch. In other words, even in a snapshot bank, if you have it checked for patch one it will not automatically be checked for patch two (unless you have already checked it and saved it to the Multi patch). I don't know if this helps but good luck.
Tom B

[tonysounds]

You may know (or be doing) this already, but make sure that the "Route Midi CCs to Source Plugin Box" is checked. And here's what got me on a similar thing for a time - that checked box is not global, but programable per Multi patch. In other words, even in a snapshot bank, if you have it checked for patch one it will not automatically be checked for patch two (unless you have already checked it and saved it to the Multi patch). I don't know if this helps but good luck.
Tom B

I've been doing it your way Tom, but I didn't realize that was NOT a global setting, so I'll re-examine that when I get home.

I got a completely different answer from Muse.....
"Tony,

How Receptor responds to MIDI CCs is going to depend on an option in the
setup menu of the Receptor. Check the setup page of receptor viewer, or
just press setup on the front panel and scroll with the top display knob
until you find the field titled 'MIDI CCs to source plugins'.

If this option is ON the CC response settings depend ENTIRELY on how the
plugin itself is set up. In other words CCs bypass Receptor's mixer
completely, and are configured within the plugin. The other thing that
happens and is less apparent is that MIDI CCs in this mode will follow
whatever your plugin MIDI channel assignement is.

If this option is OFF the CC responses will be configured for RECEPTOR.
That means our special control preset is loaded, and certain CCs (such as
#7 for channel volume) are used to control the mixer. Other CCs (like
modulation) are still fowarded to the plugin. In this mode MIDI channels
for the CCs are forced to the channel they are currently on. In other
words if you have a plugin on channel 3, only CCs on channel 3 will work.
More details on MIDI CCs in this mode can be found on page 181 of
Receptor's manual."

[Kevin@MuseResearch]

Tony,

This IS a global setting. Once the 'MIDI CCs to Source Plugin' option is checked it should remain on until 1) You click to turn it off or 2) Receptor is shut down improperly/loses power unexpectedly or 3) reset of Receptor's system is performed on the front panel (holding multi and pressing power 3X).

[TWB121234]

Now I'm a bit confused. Page 30 of the Receptor manual "Receptor v1.4 Release Notes" states "Note: This setting is not global -- rather it's saved and recalled with a MULTI patch. This lets you determine where to route MIDI CC data on a patch-by-patch basis."

I run my main live performance snap shot with all my loaded plugs on MIDI channel 1 (using bypass to ignore channels I do not wish to sound). I have 3 instantiations of VB3 and control VB3 with a Korg Kontrol. I was not able to do this until I saved each Snap Shot Multi patch (the VB3 ones) with the Route MIDI CCs to Source Plugins box checked.

All I can say is that it did not work before and seems to be working fine since.

Certainly not saying Kevin is wrong - I'm probably the confused one Anyway good luck,
Tom B

[Kevin@MuseResearch]

Hey guys, looks like I was wrong on this one. The MIDI CCs to source option is indeed saved with the MULTI patches (therefore not global). As might be predicted, with Singles and source patches cannot save the MIDI CC setting.

[TWB121234]

Thanks Kevin,
Tom B

[dudegruvy]

I've had my rev c for over a year, and it seems that some plug-ins will not receive midi volume changes even though I have set up the receptor to route all midi cc's directly to plug-ins.
B3 works great, and will even learn all your cc's. On the other hand EVE will not respond to volume control changes, but will respond to pitch bend and sustain pedals. Fromage will not respond to any cc's. I've tried using an external midi mapper to make sure I'm tranmitting volume on cc #7, but it seems that some plug-ins will not learn volume cc's and will ignore volume control changes, rendering them useless for live performance.