Why does UniWire come with both an Instrument and an Effects plugin?
Because Receptor, itself, can function as both an instrument and an effect. If there’s an instrument running on Receptor that you wish to use in your sequence, you instantiate the UniWire Instrument plugin in your sequencer’s virtual instrument track. The UniWire plugin sends the MIDI data over the Ethernet cable to Receptor, which plays the instrument, then sends the audio data back over Ethernet to that same UniWire plugin — making it work exactly the same as if you used an internal instrument plugin. If you wish to use a Receptor patch to, instead, process some audio that’s running in your host sequencer, then you instantiate the UniWire FX plugin on that audio track. The UniWire plugin routes the audio to Receptor, where it’s processed and returned to that same audio track—exactly as if you were doing the processing using an internal effects plugin.
