Quick Patch Changes for Theater Applications

[bgsoundman]

I'm researching the Receptor for my theater and had a question about patch changes that hopefully someone can answer. Thanks in Advance! We would love to be able to make our K2600 keyboards change patches many times during one song with the press of a footswitch pedal. We currently have a sustain, volume and patch change setup for our K2600's using the 1/4in footswitch pedal inputs. Would we be able to continue to use these as our patch change/volume pedal/ sustain controllers and have the k2600 change the receptor patch/ volume /sustain? I don't think we would need to be changing multi's during songs. We mostly want to use double or single patches (bass in one register and piano in 2nd) with probably no efx routing. Any theater professionals using receptor on shows now that could add some experiences with this?
thanks so much.

[ndurant]

Yes, this sounds like an ideal job for a snapshot bank on the Receptor, where you set up all your plugins for the whole song, and take snapshots for the different parts of the song, with just the plugins you need unmuted. The plugins are all loaded at the start, not during the song, so transitions are seamless. It also allows you to have different volume levels and effects settings for all your plugins for each snapshot. You switch between snapshots using program changes, so I guess you'd set up your K2600 to change K2600 patch when you press your footswitch, and each K2600 patch would just send a program change to the Receptor to select the appropriate snapshot.

Hope that makes sense!