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iOS 8 UPDATE WARNING FOR MUSICIANS..Video from Doug
So most of us know the issues, but just to let you know I just posted this, and if you want to warn people about any particular problems please add a comment to the video on You Tube so people have lots of info. Cheers
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I'm on iOS 8 and I definitely agree with everything you said. Anyone relying on their iPad for making music really, really should wait a month or so.
Apple broke/changed so much stuff with this update, not just things related to music, but lots and lots of stuff all over the place. Not that long ago Steve Jobs said the reason they didn't allow private APIs to be used in apps, was to avoid these exact issues. Stuff not working with "the next OS update". And that it would lead to huge amounts of support issues for Apple and developers alike. I guess they threw all that reasoning out the window.
Lol. Nice angle...
Seriously, on behalf of iOS musicians everywhere, thanks for doing this.
Cheers Chris, if you get a chance can you leave some sort of back up comment on YT
Sure.
I thought you were gonna sing the whole thing... ♪ That would be ♪ so-oo ♪ co-hhoool ♪...
This story about problems with OS updates any kind are nearly as old as Adam and Eve ;-) Zillions of posts all over every DAW and whatever forum about this, since decades. But in fact IOS 8 is the worth ever.
You mean to tell me it's not really Simon Pegg who's been making the videos this whole time?
What Paul said.
I believe musicians are on the low end of the spectrum of Apples demographic.
As far as I know, non-music apps are having little, to no problems if they've been updated for iOS8. Even apps that have not been updated still churn out spreadsheets and pdf documents just fine.
Sure there's always minor hiccups for the non-music apps, but they're no deal breakers for the majority of business apps. Although I haven't checked iMaps yet
@Martygras - this could be true about apple and the demographic. However, they are using the growing cool factor around ipad music to sell devices. We have TV ads in the uk where music apps are the main focus. Given the marketing on this specific ipad function we may see it creep up their priority list in the future. (Here's hoping anyway)
For me personally I'm happy with iOS8, improvements to the camera and photos is nice as are all the 'under the hood' things that will bring order into the file sharing between apps chaos among other things.
And to be honest most of the 'problems' we encounter now are due to some devs being lazy or sloppy with keeping their apps up to date with 3rd party frameworks and os changes. It's not like iOS8 is 'brand new' to the devs...
I don't know if the AudioBus team sends 'reminders' to all participating developers to update their apps when ever there is a new version of AudioBus available or if there is a repository that can automatically be included when building the app to assure that the latest and greatest AB framework is included in the app?
It's not fair that AudioBus gets blamed for issues not caused by AudioBus but by the devs that are using old deprecated versions of the frameworks and do not keep their apps up to date...
I can also understand the issues small devs with limited resources face with major updates and i feel some apps are made as 'write once hope it works forever and me so lucky if someone buys it too' and if that app is becoming of age and gets 'bought' many years later by a customer it's tricky situation...
For me this is prefect time to 'erase some old apps' that are just taking up space on the iPad and when updates eventually pop up in the AppStore it's just a matter of downloading them again
i'd do anything that dead sexy voice told me to!
I wonder if waiting for 8.01 is as good an idea as it was for 7.01? Great crooning by the way Doug, and without AutoTune no less!!!
Thanks for the advice, it often seems to me that software companies change some things for the sake of change rather than making things better - as you say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
@NoiseHorse said:
Probably. I also don't pre-order my iPhone. I wait till about mid October. Sometimes there's hardware or manufacturing updates that fix physical problems. The early iPhone 5's had a problem with the glue behind the screen not being completely dry upon arrival. They said leave the screen on its brightest setting for a few hours to help the glue dry. It was a brownish hue until dry.
I feel like this post should be a sticky or "announcement." I was expecting issues with the updates so I didn't upgrade to ios8. Happy that apple is making changes, just don't like how they do it all at once. Anyways, a lot of it is up to the devs... so let's hope our bellyaching gets them on top of things.
Just keep your head up. Hopefully iOS8 will provide more possibilities in the future for music-making apps.
In 4 weeks things will be ok, then there will be an update for the os and devs will have had the time to fix things.
There is aftertouch/velocity now in ios 8, and midi over Bluetooth so good times ahead
I may be the only one here (and @Samu) that updated iPad 3 to iOS 8 and is happy with it...
No lag systemwide, and most of the apps I use (and I use a lot) work fine.