BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. I’m Bill Holland and we are here at the Fall AES 2007 Convention in New York City, and I am here with Muse Research and Brian Lancer?

BRIAN LANCER: Yes. Hi. Thanks Bill. Brian Lancer here from Muse Research and happy to be here showing off our latest rendition of the Receptor. It’s the Receptor with Komplete inside. So, we’ve taken the Native Instruments Komplete package, pre-authorized it, pre-installed it, it’s ready to go right out of the box. So, literally, within two minutes of unpacking it, you’re playing Akoustik Piano or Kontakt or Guitar Rig, or, you know, any of the great plugins that come with Komplete.

We’re also showing a number of new plugins that are running on Receptor for the first time including the Italian Grand that’s with Ivory. We have the Chameleon 5000 from Camel Audio, the Time Warp 2600 from Way Out Ware, and a variety of other plugins like OPX from a company called Sonic Projects, and just a whole slew of new plugins.

BILL HOLLAND: Now, this Komplete 5 and it’s running inside of a Linux box that has you can have your own keyboard, mouse control, and what this allows you to do is have a more stable platform for live performance, correct?

BRIAN LANCER: That’s correct. We actually started this company because we saw plugins being a really important part of a musician’s arsenal, and we wanted to solve the problem of being to take plugins out of the computer that’s in your studio and be able to perform live, and also when you get back into the studio to accelerate your computer by connecting Receptor to your host whether it’s a Mac or a PC or a laptop or desktop, and we have a very unique technology called UniWire that allows you to actually run plugins in Receptor as if they were in your computer.

BILL HOLLAND: Excellent, and obviously because of that, it’s taking a lot of the CPU drain off your own computer, so you don’t -- so your computer can focus more on actually running the sequence than having to deal with VSTs?

BRIAN LANCER: Exactly. Yeah. We’ve spent a lot of time optimizing our host environment for super low latency effect. We can run down to 32 samples of buffer latency, which is faster than any computer that we’re aware of, plus we have astonishingly good audio quality. Of course it’s completely portable. In fact, one thing that’s unique is that we can control the device three ways. We can control entirely from the front panel using a hardware interface that you might be familiar with like with a typical set. You can connect a mouse and a monitor like I’ve done here. That allows you to actually go in and see the actual plugin interfaces, and then you can control it from your computer using Ethernet where you’ll see these graphics on your desktop. So, if you use Pro Tools or MOTU or Cubase or Logic, you’re able to control receptor completely and it can be across the room. In fact, this interface, the visual interface actually works wirelessly, and we have keyboard techs around the road tweaking the synths that are onstage while listening to the front-of-house-mix. It makes the front-of-house guys very jealous though.