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Muse Research Receptor news and eventsRECEPTOR 2 Gets Solid State Drive (SSD) Optional Solid State Drive offers dramatic performance improvement New York City, New York. October 9, 2009—Muse Research and Development, Inc. is debuting a new Solid Sate Drive (SSD) technology option for the esteemed RECEPTOR 2 PRO line of hardware plug-in players at the 127th AES show in New York City. SSD dramatically increases the data throughput of the RECEPTOR 2 PRO and PRO MAX for greater polyphony and lower latency, as well as increasing the ruggedness of an already robust design by replacing the traditional rotating hard drive with solid state drive technology with no moving parts. The SSD option is available on either the RECEPTOR 2 PRO or RECEPTOR 2 PRO MAX models, and offers either 128GB or 256GB of storage. These new storage devices dramatically enhance the performance of the already-impressive RECEPTOR 2 pro or PRO MAX by increasing the speed at which data is read from the drive by a factor of up to 5 when compared with a standard hard drive mechanism. The result is a dramatic increase in polyphony, along with reduced boot time, faster sample loading, and the ability to run some sample-based programs at much lower latency settings. Solid State Drive technology addresses the bottleneck in modern data systems Although RECEPTOR 2 ships with a SATA-2 drive interface built in which is capable of delivering data to the processing subsystem up to 300MB/s, in reality the existing rotating platter hard drives are only capable of delivering continuous data streams of 60MB/s to the processing subsystem. The Muse R&D philosophy is to improve system efficiency, and increasing the speed at which you get the data off the storage subsystem and into the processor goes a long way toward achieving this goal. RAID drive systems, which increase data throughput by spreading the data across two or four drives do allow data to be delivered to the processing subsystem quicker, but they also add complexity, fragility, heat, and weight to a rig. The new SSD technology offers significant performance advantages when reading data over a traditional rotating platter drive by orienting the data in a "virtual raid array" across the storage field. The result is continuous read speeds of between 250MB/s and 300MB/s. The fact that there is no friction in the system means that system heat is reduced, and since there are no moving parts, the storage subsystem is impervious to shock, vibration, and the rigors of constant touring. The result is an optimal combination of higher data throughput with improved ruggedness and reliability. Two drives available: 128GB and 256GB. "The solid state drive technology offers significant performance benefits to our most demanding customers," comments Bryan Lanser, VP of Product Development at Muse Research and Development. "The incredible data throughput coupled with the fact there are no moving parts in these drives is just one more way in which we can make the RECEPTOR 2 the ultimate synth, sampler, and sound module more powerful and more reliable." RECEPTOR 2: Road proven and now virtually indestructible To learn more about these exciting new products visit www.museresearch.com, send an email to info@museresearch.com, call (650) 326-5400, or contact your local dealer. ### |