On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:33 AM, rosea grammostola <rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote: I've got an older (revision B) Receptor that I use from time to time. It's a very solid platform... it comes with a bunch of free (beer) plugins that sound decent, and supports plugins that use iLok-based copy protection. But my opinion is that a) it's too closed, though on the upside I believe the devs have given a lot of code back to Wine ... and b) a better all-open-source solution could exist, built on netjack/lash/jack-rack/lv2rack/jconv/etc., if some kind soul(s) had the time to put into it and bundle it all up with a nice unified interface. An easy-to-use "Linux DSP farm OS" is a project I've considered on occasion, but alas, real life tends to get in the way of my grandiose dreams. The downside is that you still need a VST host to connect via Uniwire... Uniwire is essentially a VST plugin that uses something analogous to NetJack+LASH to control the Receptor (though I'm sure the architecture is quite different under the hood). I've asked Muse on their forums on multiple occasions to create a Jack-client version of Uniwire, since the Uniwire VST has some issues running under Ardour. I doubt they're terribly interested though. ;) Sean Corbett blacktownsound.com