Receptor Two plus Remote issues.

[danmack]

Hi again,
My receptor 2+ is still having issues connecting to a network via crossover. This morning I followed advice I received about directly connecting to a router. I did this and got the crossover network address and submask back that were blanked out. Went downstairs and connected with a crossover cable to my imac and opened the receptor remote application. It recognized the receptor and I was able to view and work the GUI. It would not let me connect to and view the Hard drive. I again checked the Address and subnet and they were still correct. I shut everything down and ran a standard ethernet cable between the two devices, rebooted and the receptor was recognized by the imac again and I could access the GUI as before but still no seeing the Hard Drive. I hooked a windows laptop up via crossover cable and it was unable to see the receptor at all and when I checked the front panel The crossover had (no network) in its display. I re-connected the imac and it got the IP and subnet back again. The remote gives me the GUI but no HD access. What The What??!?? I'm down to this.

[nathankingcole]

My biggest issue is always my antivirus software. I disable my wi-fi and antivirus (firewall) every time to be able to get the receptor drive to open on my laptop. I found the setting for the receptor GUI viewer to work with the firewall on, but I have not found what is tripping the firewall when connecting to the receptor drive. I drove myself crazy trying to figure out what was going on-the solution for me was just disabling the firewall!

[looneytunes]

Hi Guys,

Here's a couple things you can try to connect to the HD from a Mac:

1.) After opening up a GUI from Receptor Remote, open any finder window on your mac (with list view selected - you will see contents of that folder listed as icons).
Look at the left sidebar. You should see a group of icons called 'Favorites', and below that, a group of icons under 'Devices', and under that, a group of icons called 'Shared'. Your receptor may often be detected here (displayed by whatever the name is that you called your receptor in it's 'setup' tab). Double clicking on this should bring up a finder window for your Receptor's HD.

2.) If for some reason you don't see this (1)

Go to the Finder's Menu bar, and select 'Go' -> 'Connect to Server ...'

You can now connect to the Receptor's HD via a connection protocol called 'Samba':

In the address text field type:

smb://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd

(where aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is the IP address assigned to your receptor (as shown in the setup tab) -- it should be something like 192.168.000.102)

This should bring up a Mac Authentication dialog. Select the radio option 'Guest' and accept the dialog. This will give you a finder window with your Receptor's HD.


Hope this helps,
Kevin L

[danmack]

That worked Kevin, Saw my hard drive right away. The Swam instruments loaded and all but two made it past the refresh phase, one from each set. There were .dll issues which I need to talk to Swam about.

Dan

[Bryan@MuseResearch]

Kevin Looney rocks. Seriously.

[danmack]

Absolutely!

[looneytunes]

Aw, shucks!

[Bryan@MuseResearch]

Nothing to be embarrassed about since it is completely true!!!!

[danmack]

Seconding that!... SWAM instruments are loaded, and thanks to Emanuele at SWAM, the dll issue is fixed. Lotsa good wind sounds to keep my EWI and receptor happy!!!

[Bryan@MuseResearch]

Could you please share what you did to get the SWAM instruments working? There is another EWI user who wants to perform with these libraries, and I have no idea what tricks you did to get them to work!

Thanks

Bryan

[danmack]

Hi Bryan, tried to reply from my phone this morning (east coast) and pasted something from its clipboard. I will edit it out and get you the proc ess in detail this morning. Also, putting together some videos demoing these soon. Emanuele was pleased that we found the DLL issue and the latest updates from this week should have them fixed for all of their products.
Dan

[danmack]

Hi Bryan,
This is quite lengthy but covers the complete process of installing and activating swam engine instrument plugins on the muse receptor. I am not sure how far in any other user has gotten in this process but this is as comprehensive as I can get. My instruments are running on a receptor 2+ at a resolution of 44.1mhz with a sample buffer of 128 samples. The Akai EWI4000s is the controller. A single instantiation in mixer mode shows CPU usage move up to the 2nd large tick mark from the left. When being played, the CC data only pushes the CPU a quarter of the way up the meter range. Running more than two instantiations begins to overdrive the CPU on this model. Results will vary depending on your units processor capabilities. The first sample instruments I was given to try were the clarinet / bass clarinet package. I used the standard install process instead of the unsupported plugin install. I was trying that procedure before the attempting unsupported plugins process. They instruments installed successfully with no apparent issues. Next, run the refresh plugins from the setup page of the receptor. At this stage I discovered an issue with the .DLL's for the alto sax and oboe in the saxophones and doubl reeds. After sending install logs to Emanuele at Swam he solved the issue and sent replacement DLL's for those two instruments which I replaced in their respective locations in the VST plugins folder. I ran the refresh plugins from setup and those .DLL's were recognized and they all showed up in the plugins menu in mixer mode. Select the instrument you want and it should load in mixer channel. Click the edit plugin button to bring up the GUI for the swam instrument. There will be a dark windowthat says click here to activate. For the activation process a dialog with fields for system ID, License code, activation code and email comes up. The receptor fills in the system ID which you need to copy to your computer along with your license code. Then you go to the swam engine website activation page. Here you fill in the fields with the system I'D number you get from the receptor and the license number for the instrument package along with your email used to purchase the instrument package and then click submit. This will give you an activation code. Go back to the receptor and enter these numbers and email into the corresponding fields and submit and the instrument should activate. I will happy to answer any questions either by PM, Skype or phone or email.

Dan Mackey