In this case, try something less CPU-intensive for that pad or effects. If Receptor’s CPU meter is jumping far to the right, it means that Receptor is being overworked, which can lead to freeze-ups. (And many venues are naturally reverberant anyway.) Also, when used with certain high-powered soft synths, Guitar Rig and FM8 can heavily tax a CPU, which leads to the next point. Reverbs can consume a lot of CPU, so unless you absolutely require the reverb, take it off the patch. However, there are a few issues to address. Some of my patches have distortion, delay, phasing, chorusing, EQ and more using just Guitar Rig and a single FX slot. They’re easy to tweak and control, and they let you stack a greater number of effects on the sound. These are great-sounding effects for live use. Rather than using a few effects slots to add individual FX to a sound, I often use the multi-effects patches found in Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig or FM8. However, first make sure to check RAM in the SystemMenu to ensure you have at least 25 percent of your RAM available because overtaxing the RAM cuts down on the Receptor’s performance efficiency. Zload keeps your snapshots pre-loaded in RAM and ready to call up quickly. I recommend enabling Zload before the show, which will cut the load time between snapshots down to about five or six seconds. This process can take between 20 and 30 seconds. If you switch between snapshots without first enabling Receptor’s Zload feature, Receptor will need to clear its RAM and then load the contents of the new snapshot. And if possible, leave a blank space or two in a snapshot: Last-minute changes in the set you’re playing may require that extra space. With 16 slots available within each snapshot for loading synths, I usually need only two snapshots for a whole set. A snapshot contains synths and samples that are loaded into RAM, and they’ll cover as many songs as you can fit into the snapshot. With snapshots, you can switch between songs immediately, just as you would in Performance mode on any hardware synth.
Snapshots let you have many plug-ins sitting on deck, waiting to be used. So when a few interesting touring opportunities came up, I was happy to discover the Muse Receptor, a hardware plug-in player that lets you run soft synths and plug-in effects without latency issues or the need to use a computer onstage. Because I’m primarily a session musician, I hadn’t done much live playing in years.
0 kommentar(er)
