Muse Receptor IK Multimedia Total Total Workstation Rack: Bill Plays Host To Hardware VST Host

Gearwire was lucky enough to get a Muse Receptor, IK Multimedia Total Workstation Rack in the studio, and wee Bill Holland nearly peed his little self. What's the big deal? you may wonder. To which we respond, "well dummy, the Muse Receptor is a hardware VST host, and this one comes preloaded with a bevy of plugins designed by IK Multimedia."

There's so much one can do with this thing, it was nearly impossible to know where to start with our video demo. Bill suggested "go bananas," and since we didn't know what he was talking about, we told him to start with the hardware and user interface.

See more from the Muse Receptor on Gearwire.com!

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• workstation
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• plugin

[mysticradio]

how often do laptops actually crash on stage...... if only using a couple instances.. they dont seem to crash in my studio.....

[gearwire]

i have seen a lot of producers and djs crash on stage. I could name them, but I'm pretty sure they would prefer I not. Personally, my laptop crashed while running ableton during a band performance. It was not pretty, and the lead singer had to stall for time for about three minutes while I rebooted. not fun.

[mysticradio]

yak yak yakitty yak.... SHOW SOME BLOODY SOUNDS MAN.....

[gearwire]

seriously? you do realize it's a computer meant to run vsts...it's not a vst or synth itself. however, we do have demos of the ik software on the gearwire site.

[lavakava]

all gearwire videos suck because its blah blah blah...no demos. if you want demos listen to that japanese veteran programmer (musictrack jp) or keybdwizrd.

[abbasalikhan]

Can you only load VSTs in it or also Vst instruments ?

[ceetheproducer]

@mysticradio

laptops crash a lot live, even macbook pros will crash now n then.

if you keep a laptop still and cool n dont stress the cpu much it mote not crash running a cpu friendly daw like reaper or reason+record in the studio or at home. but move a laptop around n put it next to other over heated equipment then strain the cpu runnin ableton live n vsts to multi outs or somthing along those lines n its just a matter of time till u crash no matter what laptop or ma you are using.

[synastikki]

@chandin69 Custom OS built on Linux

[Zhorellski]

Novice question. this unit is a stand alone? just plug the monitor and muse and MIDI keyboard?

[lavakava]

dude, play something!

[chandin69]

what operating system does it run?

[oysterlovers]

looks very complicated

[PowerRedBull]

Currently I have a problem running alot of different tracks that use big, heavy VSTI's like orchestra cold, colossus and such. I wonder how they run on this thing? How are they being installed? Apart from the fact this is more stable than a comptuer, does a system link (like steinberg's) not do the same trick , for the purpose I want to use it for (more power to run alot of heavy vsti's and vst's at the same time). Is this easier or less easy to set up and such? Or is just going 64 bit better?

[ItzStillaMyth]

nah, a receptor is a computer,just with a custom os and in a music friendly form factor; it does nothing your computer cant... its like a poor man's miko... a "because i can" piece of gear...