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[perkiset]

I've received a couple PMs about music technology since my posted picture including my keyboards @ syndk8 - so I am starting this board up for discussions related to any technology that is integrated with music - sequencers, keyboards, MIDI, you name it.

I'll be posting here now and again about my experiences with Apple's Logic Pro and my newest axe, the Muse Receptor.

I hope you'll get involved if you find this of interest!

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[mrsdf]

Muse receptor.. So they installed linux on a box just so they can put wine and throw a windows vst host on top of it? And it doesn't crash ? lol
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7270104304.html

A few years ago, after everyone switched from oss to alsa for the linux sound system, things were looking really bad for realtime audio on linux, than I saw jackd and ardour starting to work for recording/editing on linux, but things still crashed from time to time. Seeing a linux based audio box that actually works is a huge progress, even if it uses wine to run the vst host. Looks like a really nice tool.

[perkiset]

Muse receptor.. So they installed linux on a box just so they can put wine and throw a windows vst host on top of it? And it doesn't crash ? lol

Nope - they rewrote the vst interpreter native. It rocks. The dev team is pretty extraordinary... forgot his name, but the Emu guy is on it, as well as other folks that are big into road-worthy design. It stays nice and cool, the HD seems very stable and not highly vulnerable to droppage.

A few years ago, after everyone switched from oss to alsa for the linux sound system, things were looking really bad for realtime audio on linux, than I saw jackd and ardour starting to work for recording/editing on linux, but things still crashed from time to time. Seeing a linux based audio box that actually works is a huge progress, even if it uses wine to run the vst host. Looks like a really nice tool.

The sound quality and latency is excellent and the big move (IMO) lately was to bundle Komplete 4 with it - I just had one built as a "pro-junior" - fastest processor and 400G hd upgrade.

Here is a link to an MP3 that I threw together a few weeks ago on it - it's pretty bass heavy on anything less than monitors and unmixed down, so don't go heavy EQ on it or it'll sound really bad. It's just the first minute or so of a concept piece. 100% receptor single pass ie., nothing's frozen - that's MIDI out Logic on a few channels, into the box and recorded.

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[MarieRocks]

Great Sound Perk, keep it coming.

[mrsdf]

I listened to it on some crappy headphones, so the bass volume is just right, I also like the bass line. This thing sounds really good, the drums (especially the snare i think) don't really sound natural, but they exceed my expectations of unmixed, computer generated drums.

And this is coming out of a linux box !!

Perk rocks 

[perkiset]

Thanks both -

the drums are a 6-mic kit which sound phenomenal on my monitors - but I need to mix them down to sound that good anywhere else. I auditioned them for a couple folks here, one of whom is the drummer for Flock of Seagulls and he was just blown away. The kit sounds really "live" in the right mix - sorry it wasn't for you Mrsdf.

And yup, I agree - I was an old school analogboi up till about 9 months ago. Sold my Oberheim Matrix 12, my Leslie speaker, an original DX7, several sound modules, hung up my big automated mixer and a lot more... decided I'd go completely digital and I'm enormously happy with that decision - although the learning curve was more steep than I thought.

Interesting comment, "out of a linux box" - if you think about it, a linux box is actually closer to the kind of proprietary OS that lives in a dedicated keyboard... without all the clutter of Windows or anything else, a 'puter is a 'puter and I'm thinking that buying more processing power that I can control, rather than new and "stuck" processing power in dedi-keyboards is the way to go for me now.