Muse Research Receptor TRIO/QU4TTRO manual v1.0 - Manual (Page 13)

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The Different Types of Presets in your RECEPTOR
It is important to realize that there are not only different types of Tags for different purposes, but there
are also different "levels" of presets in your RECEPTOR.
The PLAY level has presets that control every aspect of your RECEPTOR. These presets control RECEPTOR
as a whole. The PLAY presets can contain several different virtual instruments and their MIDI settings,
different audio effects and their input assignments, and mixer settings along with the mixer effects, their
presets, and their routing configuration. One preset changes all aspects of the box in one go.
A PLAY preset can / will change any/all of the following:
The virtual instrument synths and effects that are loaded into one or more channels.
The presets in each of these virtual instruments or effects.
The MIDI settings for each and every synth, (MIDI channel, note and velocity range, etc.)
The MIDI controller assignments for every synthand MIDI mixer settings for each effect.
The direct output assignments for each synth channel
The input and direct output assignments for the audio channels.
The Mixer send effect levels for each synth or effect channel..
The relative gain levels and pan control positions for each channel and Master Mix slots.
The Main mixer channel effects that are loaded into the mixer area and their presets.
The routing and direct output configuration of those main master effects and Mix master outs.
So you can see from the list above that one preset in the PLAY mode controls A LOT of different things at
once. This is very handy when you want to explore the factory presets of your RECEPTOR.
However, there are times when you might want to build a preset from scratch, sound by sound or effect
by effect. For this reason, there is a "lower level" of presets that you can access on a channel-by-channel
basis. So just as there are PLAY level TAGS and PRESETS, there are also TAGS and PRESETS on the
"synth channel" and "effect channel" level. This lets you open up a synth or effect channel, and then
either select a preset by choosing a Tag of interest and loading a "factory" preset in to that channel.
SoundFinder let's you quickly and easily select from the hundreds of presets on your RECEPTOR using
convenient categories of sounds and effects, without regard to a particular plug-in's presets. However,
this also means that you are selecting presets from ALL of the synth or effect plugins that are installed on
your RECEPTOR.
There are times when you might want to use SoundFinder but restrict it so that it only displays the
presets of the one particular plugin you have loaded. This is done by clicking on the "Show only (name
of plugin) presets" check box beneath the TAG filter found on any synth or audio channel. So when you
open up an individual synth or effect channel you have the choice of using SoundFinder to fine the kind
of sound you are looking for, or you can turn off SoundFinder, focussing instead on the presets of the one
plug-in you have selected.
But wait... there's more. You can also bypass the SoundFinder function entirely and work only with the
factory presets of any plug-in by opening up the Preset selector on a channel, and then selecting the
BANK tab from the Tag / Preset listing for that particular virtual instrument or effect. You can also do
this from the front panel by selecting a particular synth or effect, pressing the EDIT button, and then
selecting the preset while in the EDIT mode.
IN SUMMARY: Each plug-in on RECEPTOR has its own Factory presets, stored in BANKS at the plug-in
level, just like a hardware synth or effects processor.
Those factory presets have been "tagged" so they can be used with the SoundFinder function, letting you
select presets by category, regardless of the particular plug-in being used. The SoundFinder function
works on both the "channel" level, as well as on the "global" (PLAY) level, the difference being the
channel level affects only one channel's settings, where as on the PLAY level it affects everything that
is happening in your RECEPTOR. In this sense, the PLAY level presets are like MULTIs or COMBIs in a
workstation keyboard.