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Run virtual instruments and effects using the innovative, dedicated performance muscle of the Muse Research RECEPTOR. The world’s greatest keyboardists, guitarists, drummers, producers, engineers, film and TV composers, and music theater companies rely on RECEPTOR as their #1 solution for running virtual instruments and effects with unrivalled, road-worthy stability, speed and performance. Fuel-injected, brilliant performance The RECEPTOR was designed to do just one thing: make music. Its purpose-built, mission critical custom system software and audio hardware is housed in a beer-bottle proof metal case. It’s the best possible solution for taking your virtual instruments and effects out of the studio and onto the stage. The RECEPTOR’s highly optimized, super-efficient and super-stable OS runs on state-of-the-art, customized intelligently design hardware with an easy-to-use, on-board control panel and a smartly configured graphic user interface. RECEPTOR is perfect for live performance. It frees you from complex and messy setups, untimely crashes and over-heating, or the worry that your entire world will be destroyed if it gets dropped. And in the studio RECEPTOR will work hand-in-hand with your DAW, allowing you to run those massive plug-in libraries without clogging up your processor. Serious muscle equals seriously fast RECEPTOR comes in three highly optimized models that run faster and more efficient than anything you’ve ever tried before. Now you run more virtual instruments and effects with more polyphony and lower latency than comparable systems. Beautifully better
When you combine super-fast hardware with highly optimized software, the result is a solution that is more efficient, more stable, and simply better than anything else available. And you’ll be making music right out of the box since you get over 400 instruments with the included MusePlayer software – a $500 value – as well as IK Multimedia’s Amplitube DUO, a $99 value – for FREE, along with dozens of other virtual instruments and effects with hundreds of presets that will get you on you music-making way. RECEPTOR is also great for the environment, with a new EnergyStar™ certified power supply. And weighing in at a svelte 18 pound shipping weight, it easily reduces your carbon footprint on tour when compared with the gear that would be required to do what the RECEPTOR can do in just two rack spaces. RECEPTOR is also easy on the eyes, with a gorgeous blue-backlit LCD display, beautiful milled aluminum knobs, and a cool, black anodized aluminum front panel. Sound quality is not optional… It wouldn’t be a RECEPTOR without our legendary sound quality, and RECEPTOR packs that in spades. You’ll find balanced line-level inputs and outputs, S/PDIF digital input and output, high performance front panel instrument input, and an 8-channel ADAT optical output. Whether you run at 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88kHz, or 96kHz, RECEPTOR gives you inspirational sonic performance with minimal latency… It’s as if your virtual instruments and effects suddenly became real! Dedicated tools for dedicated musicians RECEPTOR is a ‘ready to rack’ instrument for players who demand unshakeable stability and super-tight performance, whether you play live or in the studio. If you want to run large numbers of virtual instruments and effects with minimal latency and maximum polyphony, then you need RECEPTOR. Quite simply, RECEPTOR is the smarter, faster, better way to make music…your music. RECEPTOR 2+ PRO
RECEPTOR 2+ PRO:
RECEPTOR 2+ PRO is the perfect choice for demanding players both live and in the studio. We start with a super fast 3.0GHz dual-core Intel CPU so you can run lots of effects or instruments with high polyphony. We then marry this processor to a super-fast hard disc subsystem and 4GB of high speed RAM so you can run huge sample libraries. Add to that enhanced networking bandwidth so you can transfer files and back up your unit in no time, and you have a system with serious power under the hood. (To see pictures of the front and back panels of RECEPTOR 2+ PRO, click Here). World famous sound and super great playing feel We harness all this computing power with highly tweaked audio I/O drivers to avoid the annoying latency that plagues most systems. And speaking of audio – RECEPTOR 2+ PRO employs the same legendary audio I/O design of the original RECEPTOR, with 24-bit codecs, balanced line level inputs and outputs on 1/4" TRS connectors, super-clean front-panel instrument input, ADAT optical 8-channel digital output, and support for up to 96kHz sample rates. RECEPTOR’s Unique Software Platform Optimized hardware is only the beginning, since RECEPTOR 2+ PRO lets you exploit all the power and speed the hardware has to offer thanks to Muse Research’s proprietary host environment, available only on RECEPTOR. The Muse host software has been custom designed and highly-optimized for the task of running virtual instruments and effects. The simple mixer-like interface enhances your workflow, letting you select presets without having to open a plug-in interface, and letting you control all aspects of a plug-in as well as the mixer itself using MIDI. The powerful MIDI filter lets you quickly create splits and layers, as well as re-channelizing and re-pitching your sounds instantly. All of this results in more time spent making music, and less time with your creativity on hold waiting for your gear to get out of the way. Great Audio is Muse’s Top Priority The Muse host software is built on top of Linux, the “industrial strength” operating system that consumes as little as 5% of the available RAM compared with as much as 40% with other computer operating systems. Furthermore, Muse prioritizes audio tasks over less-important tasks such as graphical redraws, which means that the operations that matter when making music receive higher priority than all others, unlike a computer that typically emphasizes graphics performance over all else. Finally, Muse host software has been made more efficient by eliminating all the extraneous functions that bloat and drain the performance of a computer system – there are no printer drivers, email programs, automatic updates or other programs to sap the CPU’s power and interrupt you from what matters: making music. Not only powerful, but also versatile and efficient RECEPTOR 2+ PRO is a poster child for versatility, working as a keyboard synth, sampler, or sound module, serving as the world’s most amazing guitar processor, or an absolutely stunning drum module. Attach a mic preamp and you have an astounding vocal processor, or simply connect the line inputs to your rig for the most impressive effects processing you’ve ever used. And that’s only the start of RECEPTOR 2+ PRO’s versatility, as you can control it entirely from the dedicated hardware front panel controls and the cool, blue LCD, or you can attach a monitor, mouse, and keyboard to the back panel to view our mixer-like software interface in action. Of course, you can also edit your virtual instruments and effects using their GUIs. And finally, RECEPTOR 2+ PRO will connect to your computer (laptop or desktop, PC or Mac) using a single Ethernet cable, letting you view RECEPTOR 2+ PRO’s interface over a network… including over a connection4! Packed with Unique Features And of course RECEPTOR 2+ PRO has proprietary features that let you make more music with less hassle than any other solution available. Just some of those features include Z-load, Snapshot presets, and the MIDI Filter. Z-LOAD: load your virtual instruments once, recall them almost instantly Snapshot Multi presets: Freezes your virtual instruments for instantaneous access The MIDI Filter: Split, layer, re-channelize and transpose instantly RECEPTOR 2+ PRO: the smarter, faster, better solution on stage and in the studio RECEPTOR 2+ PRO gives you all the performance muscle you need to create an amazing amount of music all in one rock-solid two-rack space package. Its been proven time and time again in tours all over the world, from the frozen extremes of the Winter Olympics to the sweltering heat of a summer amphitheater tour in the American Southwest, and in the orchestra pits in New York and the theaters of the West End. It provides a super-stable, high-performance environment in which to run your favorite virtual instruments and effects, and delivering your creativity with amazing sonic quality. The Muse Research RECEPTOR 2+ PRO. Because you deserve tools that are as dedicated to music as you are. Additional Benefits Includes MusePlayer for free!! Plug-ins pre-installed RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX
RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX
 Many of the world’s top touring professionals and composers of TV and film soundtracks have discovered that RECEPTOR is an invaluable tool, since it works with unrivalled efficiency as a stand-alone instrument as well as in concert with your existing computer DAW system to accelerate it. RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX is fitted with a 1.5 TB (1500GB) SATA 2 hard drive for storing huge sample libraries and delivering faster than you ever thought possible. Its 4GB of high-speed memory and 3.3GHz dual-core Intel processor enable you to run more plug-ins with super-low latency and high polyphony. (To see pictures of the front and back panels of RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX, click Here). The key to RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX is its combination of best-in-class hardware along with completely customized software that extracts all the power possible from the hardware. The software gives you dozens of proprietary features, such as the MIDI Filter, Snapshot presets, and Z-load functions as found in the RECEPTOR 2+ PRO, as well as features that are of special interest to composers and recording engineers, including Muse Research’s proprietary UniWire™ feature. UniWire – The modular way to add pure performance muscle to your DAW
Fast Ethernet for fast sample library transfers With a 1 Terabyte drive, you’re going to want to install all of your massive sample libraries into your RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX, so that they will be at your fingertips wherever you find yourself working. Thanks to the gigabit Ethernet port, all of your sample transfers will occur with lightening speed – faster than many hard drives can deliver the data! This means that converting EXS, Akai, E-MU, Kurzweil, or Gigasampler libraries into Kontakt format will happen quickly and easily, resulting in a completely self-contained, high performance sampling system. Find the sound you want… NOW. Like all the RECECPTOR 2s, the RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX features Muse’s proprietary Unified Preset Access, or UPA, that makes it a breeze to browse through a virtual instrument or effects presets. Using the Muse graphical interface, simply open up a plug-in’s bank, select the preset of interest, and it loads instantly. If you prefer to audition the sounds, you can simply use your up/down/right/left arrows on your computer to navigate through the list of presets available, loading and auditioning each one as you move through the list. Not only is this feature great for browsing sounds, it also saves you a ton of time and vastly enhances your workflow as you no longer have to open up the interface of a virtual instrument or effect to see, select, and try a particular preset. And of course you can create your own custom banks of favorites either at the Source (individual plug-in), Single (one mixer channel), or Multi (entire mixer) level for instant recall via any MIDI controller. Large projects are no problem for RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX The RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX is designed to tackle large production projects, with up to 128 banks of 128 presets each – that’s 16,384 individual presets of groups of 16 sources representing over a quarter of a million individual instruments – 262,144 to be precise. Need more? Simply drag and drop your current folder of Multi banks onto the desktop of your computer to save them, and then start again with another set of 128 banks. And you’ll love how RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX automatically recalls the last bank when you turn it on again – nothing to load or set up, including automatic project restoration when using UniWire – just load up your project on your computer and UniWire will tell Muse-Machine what presets to load and away you go. Snapshots provide instant access to sounds and provide unlimited sonic evolution The snapshot feature described in the RECEPTOR 2+ PRO section talks about how this unique function lets you load up to 16 different instruments and 57 different effects for instant access – no waiting for samples to load when you change a preset. This feature is ideal for live use where you can essentially “freeze” your set of loaded instruments and then selectively play, split, and combine any of the instruments and effects “on the fly.” But in some composing situations, you might have hundreds of soundtrack cues that are using hundreds of instruments. You’ll be pleased to know that when you increment off the end of the existing Multi snapshot bank, RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX will automatically load the next bank and allow you to continue on. This feature is invaluable for theater productions where the collections of instruments you use could easily exceed the sonic range of 16 instruments. Legendary stability and sonic performance You can rely on our legendary sound quality, with balanced line-level inputs and outputs, S/PDIF digital input and output, high performance front panel instrument input, and 8-channel ADAT optical output. Whether you run at 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88kHz, or 96kHz, you’ll find that RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX gives you inspirational sonic performance with minimal latency… It’s as if your virtual instruments and effects suddenly became real! And of course RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX is super-stable, and even if you do find yourself facing a bug in a plug-in you’re running, you’ll reboot instantly and be back on the musical path. RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX – The ideal studio and composition tool RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX provides the working professional with the best-in-class hardware designed for optimal performance combined with custom designed, super-efficient software that drastically improves your workflow and maximizes the amount of time you can spend making music. But RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX also works in concert with your existing computer system thanks to UniWire, letting you run power-hungry virtual instruments without bogging down your DAW. So whether you make hit records in your studio or write scores for TV of blockbuster films, you’ll find the RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX to be the ideal production partner. It is simply the smarter, faster, better way to make music using virtual instruments and effects. RECEPTOR VIP
RECEPTOR VIP
The RECEPTOR VIP is a high-performance, super-stable dedicated hardware plug-in player that runs hundreds of virtual instruments and effects with the convenience and portability of dedicated hardware. (To see pictures of the front and back panels of RECEPTOR VIP, click Here). The RECEPTOR VIP uses a dual-core Intel processor and a 1TB SATA 2 hard drive and provides significant performance power. Additionally, the new RECEPTOR RECEPTOR VIP has a sleek, new look with a black front panel, blue LCD, and new LED-backlit buttons. The dual-core Intel processor and high speed DDR-3 RAM of this new Receptor provide performance that is similar to the previous Receptor 2+ base model, at a lower cost. Includes MusePlayer Plugin!! The RECEPTOR VIP also includes the MusePlayer plugin, developed by Univers Sons. You'll find that RECEPTOR VIP lets you start making music instantly with minimal hassle and maximum results. RECEPTOR VIP–Versatile and Affordable Keyboardists and guitarists will love how RECEPTOR VIP makes their plug-ins perform and feel like real instruments, by running them with super-low latency and massive polyphony. The RECEPTOR VIP's new hardware and software has been designed for optimized performance of your favorite virtual instruments and effects, and combines this performance with a number of unique features that make Receptor the ultimate musical instrument. The RECEPTOR VIP features an entirely new rack-based graphical user-interface featuring SOUNDFINDER so you can quickly and easily locate the perfect sound for your music. RECEPTOR VIP also features an extensive "MIDI Learn" feature so you can quickly and easily marry your controller keyboard to the virtual instruments or effects running in your VIP. Also new is a "dongle garage" that lets you safely store your valuable ilok dongle safely inside the unit while gigging, and a superb new audio subsystem that supplies two front panel mic or instrument inputs (with phantom power) or two line-level inputs - perfect for the solo player who wants to sing while playing. Keyboardists will love the 1TB drive for storing all their sample libraries, and guitarists will love the optimized OS for loading up tons of instantly accessible tones and playing with low latency. And all will love the exceptional audio quality of Receptor, making it the choice of touring and studio professionals the world over. RECEPTOR VIP: Totally Portable and "Komplete" Many of the world's biggest bands and most famous artists use Receptor to run their synths, samplers, and effects both in the studio and on the road. That's because Receptor packs massive amounts of power into a 2-rack space box that weighs only 18 pounds. The RECEPTOR VIP delivers even more power than the original meaning you can have optimal performance for your virtual instruments and effects without breaking the bank. If you crave more sounds, you can configure your RECEPTOR VIP with either the IK Multimedia Total Workstation Bundle or the Native Instruments KOMPLETE bundle pre-installed and authorized, significantly expanding the range of sounds at your disposal, all while saving you a bundle of time and money! Clearly RECEPTOR VIP brings an entirely new dimension of how much music creative power you can cram into a compact and portable package. Any Receptor can be ordered from a music retailer, or the www.plugorama.com website with software pre-installed so you can take it out of the box and start making music immediately. Try that with a computer. There are often software bundles available at special pricing through Muse Research or its plug-in developer partners like Native Instruments, IK Multimedia, Synthogy, Rob Papen, GForce, and many more. Check www.plugorama.com for details. RECEPTOR VIP, RECEPTOR 2+ PRO and RECEPTOR 2+ PRO MAX All models feature:
Which RECEPTOR is right for me? The question often comes up, "which receptor is right for me?" While it isn't always possible to give an exact answer, the following guidelines should help you make a decision.
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