2 improvement suggestions

[UnUnUnium]

After using the recptor for a bit, I have two desired updates
1) Allow plugins to communicate with each other via midi--I want to modulate parameters with out automating them...
2) allow midi note information to control effect plugins...Plugins like "tempo synced reverser" from ndc would benefit form this.

[UnUnUnium]

Sorry, meant to put this in the impovement suggestions thread...My computer is stoned, not me.

[DanTimis]

2) allow midi note information to control effect plugins...Plugins like "tempo synced reverser" from ndc would benefit form this.

Just so you know, all plug-ins do get tempo information. To be precise, they get VST tempo, not MIDI clock.

This may not be exactly what you want, but you can send MIDI clock to Receptor and Receptor will detect the tempo and send it to all plug-ins as VST tempo.

Actually, one of the improvements in version 1.2 is that Receptor responds much faster when the tempo changes abruptly with MIDI clock.

[UnUnUnium]

For sure...I'm not having any kind of tempo sync issues at all, everything is locked tight...It's simply that tempo sync reverser has a function whereby you can trigger the reversed portion of audio with a mid note; Midi clock is not the issue, I think it's just that since it is an effect plug in and not an instrument plug in, it's not recieving Midi note information.....Please correct me if I'm doing something wrong and you CAN send note ons to effect VSTs.

[DanTimis]

You are correct, most VST effects do not receive MIDI notes. If you have a VSTi, all MIDI notes go to the VSTi. If you use an audio input (analog in, guitar, or S/PDIF), then the first VST effect gets the MIDI notes.

[UnUnUnium]

Thank you for clarifying....So basically the first vst in any chain on the receptor recieves Midi note ons, and the rest just controller data. Good to know. That does mean however that the two effects buses can recieve Midi note data, yes?

Cheers, Jeremy

[DanTimis]

Actually, the first VST plug-in, either an instrument or an effect, only on a Receptor Instrument channel receives MIDI notes and a subset of MIDI controllers including mod wheel, sustain, etc. It is in the manual.

The other plug-ins do not receive any MIDI. The plug-ins on the F/X buses and the master do not receive MIDI either.

That is because Receptor has only one physical MIDI port and most controllers are already assigned for the mixer. Volume, pan, sends, mute, solo, etc. for all Receptor channels including F/X buses and the Master.

With UniWire you will be able to send any MIDI to any plug-in. That is because we are no longer limited to one MIDI port. Over Ethernet we can send many MIDI streams, each stream with 16 MIDI channels. With UniWire you will be able to take a MIDI track and Cubase and send the MIDI output to a particular plug-in in Receptor, like F/X 2 on F/X bus 1.

We are looking to enhance the MIDI filtering and routing for the physical MIDI input in a future version, but that has been scheduled yet.