Скачать или смотреть Muse UniWire demo video, Winter NAMM 2006

The combination of Muse Research's UniWire networking technology and Receptor dedicated VST accelerator is cool for two reasons. First, it allows you to send MIDI and audio data via Ethernet in real time. And second, it's totally free! (If you already own the Muse Receptor, that is.)

For the uninitiated, the Muse Receptor is basically a rack-mount box that runs VST instruments and plug-ins, while UniWire is a networking technology that lets your host computer run said plugs and instruments via Ethernet, allowing the host computer to save precious memory and CPU cycles. The system is basically invisible from the user's perspective, meaning the VST instruments running on Receptor (via UniWire) look just like the VST instruments running on your Cubase or ProTools host computer. Pretty cool, eh?

There's also a distributed computing aspect to the system that makes it ever cooler: UniWire lets multiple sequencers access the same Receptor, or even multiple Receptors, so a studio could build a "Receptor array" in a closet down the hall and leverage it across their entire collection of Ethernet-linked VST hosts. Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch?