Muse Research UniWire manual supplement - Manual (Page 16)

UniWireManualSupplement 6 MuseResearch,Inc.
• Receptor Channel 1-16, Buss 1-2, Master
When you select one of these individual channel options, UniWire sends all 16 MIDI channels to the single
Receptor Channel you select and, if you’re using a UniWire FX, it also determines which Receptor channel
receives that audio data. Furthermore, when you select one of these individual channel options, UniWire
displays an additional Control menu immediately below the Send MIDI To / Send Data To menu. Use
this additional menu to tell Receptor exactly where in that channel to send those 16 MIDI channels. This
effectively makes Receptor a 92 MIDI port, 1472 MIDI channel device! The operation of the Control menu
is discussed further in the next section.
When UniWire communicates with Receptor on a single channel, audio is sent directly out of the selected
Receptor Channel back into your host sequencer. This means, if you select Instrument Channels 1-16,
that Receptor’s two effects busses and the master channel are removed from the audio signal chain, so
any plugins instantiated on those channels (or bussing to those channels) will have no effect (unless you
instantiate additional UniWire plugins and route these channels back in to your host sequencer).
Finally, when you use choose to communicate with Receptor on a single Channel, that channel’s MIDI filter
is bypassed by default. This allows your host application to control where all MIDI data is sent and insures
that the selected channel responds to all 16 MIDI channels, regardless of the state of Receptor’s Instrument
Channel MIDI filter ‘Listen To’ and ‘Play Plugin’ settings. You may disable the MIDI filter bypass by
un-checking the Bypass MIDI Filter option in Receptor’s Setup view (or under the SETUP button on
Receptor’s front panel). If you do this, keep in mind that you must then set the Receptor channel’s ‘Listen
To’ and ‘Play Plugin’ settings manually, so as to match those in your host sequencer. Also, if you turn off
the MIDI filter bypass and want to use a multitimbral plugin, you must set ‘Listen To’ to All and ‘Play
Plugin’ to Thru. For more information about Receptor’s Bypass MIDI Filter option, see its discussion
earlier in this manual.
The Routing Area always displays a tiny representation of the Receptor User Interface to illustrate exactly
what’s happening. Notice that when you set Send˛MIDI˛To to any of the individual channel options, the
graphic updates to show exactly what’s being accessed via UniWire—where data goes into Receptor (over
UniWire) and where the audio comes out (over UniWire). Similarly, when you set Send˛MIDI˛To to
All˛Receptor˛Channels, the graphic illustrates that MIDI controls every Receptor channel and that audio
comes from the Master Channel.
SHORTCUT: You can click in the tiny virtual Receptor graphic to make changes without using the
Send˛MIDI˛To menu. Specifically, click any channel in the graphic and the Send˛MIDI˛To value changes
accordingly. If you click the “multi patch” area of the tiny virtual Receptor graphic (upper right corner of
graphic), then the Send˛MIDI˛To parameter is set to All˛Receptor˛Channels.