If I trust my experiences of trying to call someone using vocal commands in the car w/ the iPhone, I wouldn't hold my breath either. ;) 

Ok...I have no real clue what this thread is about...and I've already had my martini and have sallied forth into a lovely Shiraz...but I'll be glad to say "I hate Apple". Mainly because they force you to do things and behave in what they deem as appropriate manner and are so proprietary as to be dickwadish...if that's a word...and if its not it ought to be. Screw Steve Jobs and the horse he rode in on.  

Sent from my iPad....

Oh, the irony!!!

Apple is coming out with another iPad...

It's going to have a 14" screen...

It will be called...

The MaxiPad

yorolpal


Ok...I have no real clue what this thread is about...and I've already had my martini and have sallied forth into a lovely Shiraz...but I'll be glad to say "I hate Apple". Mainly because they force you to do things and behave in what they deem as appropriate manner and are so proprietary as to be dickwadish...if that's a word...and if its not it ought to be. Screw Steve Jobs and the horse he rode in on.  

Sent from my iPad....

Oh, the irony!!!

I used to say that I didn't like Apple. Then Cakewalk announced X1, I bought a MacBook and Logic, and now, life is as cool as Martinis and Shiraz. ;)

Rain
 
I wish Apple doesn't vanish any time soon, not only for my own sake as a Mac user, but for all PC users, because, looking at Windows 8, tablets and Android phone, it's very clear that almost every new trend is set by Apple. 
...
People may not be willing to pay the price asked by Apple, they may hate the company for various reason, justified or not, but they still want what Apple develops and has to offer - just not from Apple.

This has been going on from the inception of Windows itself.
Many of you may recall that the original Windows interface was..um.."inspired" by the old Apple OS.
As was Tandy's OS-9(which ran on the CoCo2 and 3)
Whatever or views of Apple and iOS, there's no denying their influence on the world as we know it.
I can't say I blame IK for going where the money is. They gotta eat, too.
Hopefully, as suggested earlier, PC software development is being funded by some of that income.

xabiton

why be mad at IK for the bridge crashing on you and not the creator of the bridge itself? It sounds like the bridge is being faulty for you. 

A bridge is a band-aid.  So we should be mad at this one guy who makes a product, that by it's very nature, is coming closer and closer to obsolescence instead of IK who makes the last 32bit sampler on the planet?  Right.

When software isn't updated, issues will eventually show up. 

As an example, I have no doubt that for a while in the past, SampleTron, SampleMoog and the other library/players - which haven't been updated since 2009, by the way - worked just fine under Mac OS.

As of (not so) recently however, some of us are experiencing an issue causing instrument loading time to increase exponentially for each new patch we audition, making the host irresponsive. 

This could be due to anything - an update in some of the components of the OS itself or something like that.  Since the plug-ins aren't updated, glitches and bugs crawl in...

The workaround would be to use SampleTank to load those samples. Which is already a compromise, but, hey... 

Only problem is that, every time I've messed w/ IK instruments' sample directories, I've had to re-authorize every single instrument (on top of re-downloading the buggy authorization manager several times because it kept prompting me for an update randomly between authorizations).

Anyway, long story short, it took me forever. And I said - so long IK.

Now, if IK had only maintained its software and kept it up to date - not re-invent the whole thing w/ a new GUI and new features and whatsoever, but just made sure that their currently available products work correctly NOW, not 3 years ago, I personally couldn't care less how long it'd take them to develop ST 3. 

They may never develop it for all I care.

Incidentally, all of my issues w/ ST and ST instruments are native 32 bit issue - I'm not yet using my host in 64 bits.

cclarry


Apple is coming out with another iPad...

It's going to have a 14" screen...

It will be called...

The MaxiPad

They've got much bigger than that already - how about 27". ;)

use internet just for doloaing and upadting soft ...after that i disable the card staright ....

i have a dual boot is use for other stuff (reall ineternt and gaming sometime )

the thing is that on my main daw (desktop ) i don't have and wifi card installed ...so it's a pain to upadte and all and for exemple , the Tracks grand Deluxe can't be installed in and offline procedure (i'm talikning aboy=ut the additional new plugins that need to be restored via the shop to install the dll , this shop can't be lauched off line)  ....

WOW. I spend some time enjoying live music in Austin for SXSW and I come back to this. Interesting, your concerns haven't fallen on deaf ears, we are indeed in development. A GUI was shown at NAMM to select few and we ARE INDEED set for a 2013 release. As for a more exact date....well that'll be a surprise.