How is Receptor better than FXteleport?

[fritzman]

Most FXT user say you have to run all your FX on one PC and your VSTi's on the other.

Is it possible to run receptor wrapped Vsti's with receptor wrapped FX's in sync with the host pc's wrapped vsti's and receptor Fx's?

As far as I know, FXT is not able to do this...Maybe receptor can?

I cannot comment on FXT, since I do not know it in depth.

With UniWire you have two types of plug-ins, an instrument and an effect. You can mix and match instruments and effects any way you want. They can all send MIDI (and audio for the effects) to a Receptor and get audio back. They are all in sync with sample accuracy. If your DAW supports automatic delay compensation UniWire will be in perfect sync with the other tracks.

Hi Dan,

does that mean that every plugin stream is handeled seperately for the PDC?


Best wishes, FRitz

[DanTimis]

The PDC is handled only in the host. There are no individual plugin streams with UniWire. Receptor is seen as one big multi-track device.

Until now Receptor has been used mainly as a live performance device and as such it needs to respond very, very quickly to MIDI events. Most supported plug-ins have zero delay, and those that do have a delay have a very small one. So Receptor, which is a VST host, does not use PDC. We could add this feature if requested.

The question was if synths and effects run together with UniWire. Yes, they run in Receptor, they stay in sample accurate sync without delay compensation, they arrive in sync in the DAW, and the DAW uses PDC to compensate for the delay introduced by UniWire, not by individual plug-ins.

[Trojan Badger]

Dan,
Could you answer my question about project recall at the end of page 1?

[DanTimis]

The entire configuration of Receptor can be saved as a multi patch, while each Receptor channel can be saved as a single patch. Each patch belongs to a bank and each bank has an msb and lsb. If you send Receptor a bank select msb, bank select lsb and a program change, it will load the patch corresponding to those (assuming there is a patch).

When you save a Cubase file UniWire will save the msb, lsb, and program number of the multi patch and any pertinent single patch loaded on Receptor. When you open the Cubase file later, UniWire will send the msb, lsb, and program change and receptor will load the multi patch and any pertinent singles.

UniWire will save just the msb, lsb, and program number, not the contents of the multi. If you change the multi in Receptor, UniWire will load the new multi, not the old one used when you saved. This only means that UniWire is not meant for archiving, but it is very convenient for day to day work. Next morning when you open your Cubase file, Receptor will be automatically configured the same as you left it last night.

[orangenut]

In the Whitepaper there is a multi-studio facility setup, i.e. several host computers and receptors on one network.
1. Will UniWire be open-ended so as to allow computer<->computer interactions as well as computer<->receptor interactions, or is UniWire entirely focused on computer<->receptor operations?
2. Can serveral computers be sharing the resources of one receptor over UniWire?

[DanTimis]

1. UniWire works only between a Mac or PC and one or more Receptors.
2. Not at the same time.

[TaoMannaDon]

1. UniWire works only between a Mac or PC and one or more Receptors.

It seems like a logical outcrop of UniWire technology would be an eventual computer to computer UniWire product. That would permit studios to take advantage of bleeding edge computer power instead of waiting for a new hardware version of Receptor.

Is a computer to computer UniWire product being considered?

Don

[DanTimis]

Is a computer to computer UniWire product being considered?

Not at this time

[nickair]

Is there any chance that Uniwire comes in RTAS for MacOS9? I use a ProTools MIX running MacOS9.2. That would be a great point for me as I plan to buy a Receptor very soon.

[DanTimis]

Mac OS 9 will not be supported in the first version. Chances are very low for supporting OS 9 in future versions.