Muse Research Receptor manual v1.2 - Manual (Page 166)

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Documentation
This directory contains some basic Receptor documentation, including various plugin documentation. Note that
the plugin documentation is supplied by the developer and, as such, may exist in all sorts of different formats,
such as Acrobat (pdf), Microsoft Word (doc), text, or html files.
You may keep this documentation on Receptor or you may delete it. The choice is yours. Specifically:
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If you take your Receptor on location, you may find it useful to keep the documentation on Receptor so that
it’s always available to you (as long as there’s a computer to network with).
• If you want to reclaim valuable Receptor hard drive space, you can simply drag the documentation
directory to a networked computer for archiving. You can then delete the documentation contained within
Receptor’s documentation folder since it will now be backed up onto your computer.
Drop Installers Here
This is your gateway to Receptor. Basically, if there’s something you want to install into Receptor (other than
samples), you drag it into this directory. Specifically:
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System Updates - Download Receptor system updates from www.plugorama.com and drag them into the
Drop Installers Here directory. Once the update is copied into this directory, you can trigger an installation
from Receptor’s GUI or front panel. For detailed instructions, see “Updating Receptor Software” on page
169.
• New Plugins or Plugin Updates - Download Receptor plugins or updates to existing plugins from www.
plugorama.com and drag them into the Drop Installers Here directory. Once the plugin is copied into
this directory, you can trigger an installation from Receptor’s GUI or front panel. Note that you can drag
multiple plugins into the Drop Installers Here directory and install all of them with a single button press.
For detailed information, see “Getting and Installing Plugins” on page 170 and “Updating Existing Plugins”
on page 171.
• New Banks and Patches - Drag any banks and patches from your computer into the Drop Installers Here
directory and trigger an installation from Receptor’s GUI or front panel. Receptor automatically converts
the patches into a “Receptorized” format that allows them to become MIDI-selectable via standard MIDI
bank select and program change messages (as discussed in Chapter 14, “Patch Management”).
Note that the Drop Installers Here directory contains three additional directories:
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Failed - Any files or packages that Receptor fails to install are spit out into the Failed directory. If an
installation fails for any reason, you can try to install it again by dragging the package out of the Failed
directory and back onto Drop Installers Here to repeat the installation procedure. Note that after 10 days,
Receptor will automatically remove any packages from this folder, thus reclaiming valuable disk space.
• In Progress - Any file that Receptor is currently in the process of installing appears in the In Progress
directory. Basically, you’ll never actually see any files in this directory, but it does have an important
function -- if, for example, you experience a power failure during a file installation, Receptor will look in
this directory when it reboots and, if it sees any files there, it will install them. This protects you against
partial installations.
• Installed - Any package or file that was successfully installed into Receptor appears in this directory.
To reclaim hard disk space, you may wish to delete any successfully installed files. If you don’t delete
them manually, Receptor will keep a successfully installed package in this directory for 10 days, then
automatically delete it.
Local Settings
This is a directory of support files needed by Receptor. There are no user-serviceable parts inside.