Re: ARC,  If I could find it for the $149.95 price I would buy it tonight.


Kind regards,
Rick

Currently it is on sale for $199 on the IK site.

Hi IK Obi,

I just purchased it about 10 minutes ago for a little less than that from a favorite dealer.

Hopefully, it will add the finishing touches to the room treatment I've installed.

Thanks for the reply,

Kind regards,
Rick Tucker

Anytime, that's great news ARC really did change how I was able to mix. I mix faster and am able to judge my music more accurately! You'll love it!

Hey Obi, 
 
Sorry for the rough ride you’ve had here, but it’s transparent that you are present to move product, so there is an intuitive guarded response to what’s behind the smiling cyber face.. Anyone with a 4^th grade education or gut feeling is aware of this dynamic. 
 
Appreciate the steps you have taken to help work through issues even if they were on occasion received less stellar. 
Respected and senior IK guy confided a year ago that he was not happy with the I stuff trajectory of the company. Won’t mention names so he doesn’t get fired in this economy. 

As said by good hardworking musicians here, I-Things are maybe cool but what we need is evolving support for our clunky big box desktops. Couldn’t care less about some phone thing. Feels like IK has abandoned us here for the most part, even though as you mention, the new rigs are there for PC’s. 
 
Desktop 32 bit receding into antiquity while IK chases the latest phone app. Hard on, bottom line business is passed from IK quickly to other companies taking care of us uncool dinosaurs who don’t care a rat’s ass about I-app whatever. 

IK has obviously made economic business decisions as to what will bring in revenue. I-Things are maybe cool to a subset, but the Guitar Rigs, the AcmeBarGigs, many others are taking care of the majority of your consumers who want tangible updates applicable to a hardware based home studio. I things may transiently bring in revenue, but not an overall smart allocation of programming resources if you are focused on integrity as much as sales relative to studio software. Just think where you guys would be if you had put the effort into upgrading and improving existing synths and Amplitube. 

Respect, 

John 
 
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I would be VERY careful about "leaking" IK employees opinions like that. IK is a VERY small company and even more so when you narrow it down to just the US office, which I assume the employee works from because you write English well. I already have a name in my head I'm VERY certain of, not that I care but if the wrong person sees this at IK that employee will be called out. Working on our iOS line and our MI line are entirely different workflows with our teams. Especially when you consider that we have updated our pro audio products FAR more than our iOS ones. Oh and like I mentioned at the beginning of the thread, this last release was for ALL platforms. Not to mention the more we make the more we can put towards development of all our products. We have some big things coming, not that I'm giving anyone any hints as to what they are anymore, but I'm willing to bet you have no clue what they are, because if you did you wouldn't be saying those things. At least the employee was smart enough to not tell you everything.

Okay Obi,
 
No time or need to spar with you.  It is off the radar of my intention to cause any harm to anyone at IK. My wish is for the peace and forward prosperity of all of you..  I don’t know the structure or distribution of your internal organization any more than you know the structure of mine, so let’s forgive our mutual ignorance and move on. We are both as important as dirt in the larger sense.
 
Intent here is not to express anything new, but to do like a vote, add support to valid sentiments shared by PC based musicians. This should ideally help a company assess what their economic support is trending towards and make adjustments if needed so you can wake up tomorrow and still have a job.
 
My comments are likely negated and overwhelmed by those who do the majority of their sharing on I apps and giving their feedback on other forums. Otherwise it is hard to understand why IK took this radical departure at the expense of us PC guys.
 
 
You got to also give validity to “external” perception. You might be in the inner sanctum and know that the PC world is about to be blown away by the next generation software, but us ignorant lay people have to go forward on what we can download. With all respect, your observation that I wouldn’t state what I done stated if I done knew what you know is absolutely trite and meaningless.
 
Rather than get pissed, it would serve IK reps to evaluate the feedback of endpoint users who may be themselves pissed. You and me are on common ground in that our customers may be dumb as a rock about our internal workings but are vital to paying our mortgages.
 
 
I know you have had rough times on multiple forums and have tried your best to accommodate us. You got my respect for that.
 
John K

Whether or not "IK Obi" has had "rough times" on this or any other forum is Obi's nevermind.  It comes with the territory.  Having a **** slapping contest on the Sonar forum about the personnel and policies at IK is not something for this forum.  I'm one who really doesn't mind the odd shill coming here to tout products even tho it's against the TOS...especially if they are as open as Obi...but frankly this is starting to wear a bit thin. 

Yeah ol pal, Voice of reason. Wearing thin... Reality here is to get 5 hours sleep before the next shift. Hope this thread gets recycled with the relevance it deserves. John

When you look at how long it took to release products before IK became the leader of professional music apps and accessories to after you will see we have released MORE than we did before. Why? Because we can afford to hire more developers to do so. Not only on iOS but on Mac/PC as well. Sorry yoropal, I shouldn't have responded so brash. Just more of a warning that IK is a REALLY small company, just don't want anyone getting in trouble here is all. :)