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Title: Half a year and no update?
Post by: currentmusik on November 08, 2014, 02:27:15 pm
Any news around this?

 ::)

C.
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: studio-kiel on November 09, 2014, 11:46:37 am
yeah! ... I want to use my spark - at the time its in the case  :( >:( ???
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: 019297 on November 14, 2014, 07:45:27 pm
Yes! At least fix existing Major bugs! Or try! Or tell us something. We don't care about ANOTHER company entering the audio interface market. Can you support your product, Arturia?
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: jsmirk on November 20, 2014, 07:50:18 pm
If no major update is provided soon, it's time to move on to the upcoming korg electribe sampler.  :-\ The bugs in the Spark software inhibit my productivity. It is an outstanding system if it didn't have so many major bugs/flaws.  I wish I could lend a hand to the developers.
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: Terrym on November 20, 2014, 09:49:34 pm
HI , please be patient ,as i'm sure you will see some of the bugs fixed in the next update . no date as of yet given to when this will be.

terrym

Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: kickwizard on November 20, 2014, 10:30:43 pm
I understand there are other products and new lines to work on and wouldn't have expected a update this soon but sparks really needs some attention

I have patience do arturia have enough DSP engineers that's the question

Hopefully we will see a RC by march  8)
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: currentmusik on November 21, 2014, 03:59:42 pm
Wouldn't change this little box for anything, just putting a little pressure, thanks terrym for replying.

using it everyday on all productions, but it feels a little clumsy still, so many little things and bugs that could be improved to make a professional machine.
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: SoundGoddess on December 05, 2014, 10:07:06 pm
2.1 came out, it seems to have fixed a bunch of bugs from what I can tell.
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: kickwizard on December 05, 2014, 10:12:21 pm
Well they answered my question  ;D

Yes they do have the DSP engineers

Not only updates but two new synths  8)

Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: 019297 on December 07, 2014, 09:07:21 am
Arturia, thanks for the update, we were getting a lil restless.
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: jsmirk on December 07, 2014, 04:18:14 pm
Oddly, some obvious ones still exist.  I'm working on some bug reports that I will post shortly. In concept, this is one of the best groove sequencers out there. Props to the product manager who dreamed this up.  However, the development phase has really stumbled. I am holding out sincere hope that now that we've seen a major event occur with Software center after 6 months of near-silence, there are some resources available to start putting the finishing touches on Spark. At the very least to identify and fix existing bugs, then move on to enhancements and new features. Someone please tell me i'm right!

2.1 came out, it seems to have fixed a bunch of bugs from what I can tell.
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: 019297 on December 09, 2014, 01:01:42 am
The update fixed a few annoying things so far. The browser is better, my kits seem far easier to find and organize. Also, it hogs up far less CPU on cubase as a VST. It used to 100% my cpu load bar and crash constantly. It's semi reliable now.
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: kcearl on December 10, 2014, 03:39:53 am
software still doesnt follow the step sequencers numbering...the most basic bug thats been around since version 2 came out...still not fixed

my $99 went to 9 expansion packs for maschine instead of V4, sorry arturia but Im not spending another penny on your software until you fix this
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: kickwizard on December 10, 2014, 12:05:21 pm
Things are moving forward though

I would rather have more frequent updates that are WIP than long gaps with a few more bugs fixed

I might be wrong but more user feedback is put into the development process this way

ASC hasd been designed to solve this issue

As i company i believe there doing there best to support there products


In concept, this is one of the best groove sequencers out there.

It is a experimental and pioneering instrument

Thinking out the box produces wonderfull things but also creates difficult problems
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: Areis on December 10, 2014, 09:11:08 pm
They have to many products for the size of company they are.

The little cliche, to many pies, not enough hands.

Think about... all those controllers, products and different DAWs and evolving tech to test on. Eventually you have to deprecate older products and maintain the new ones. It just seems like Spark 2 got the shaft before it was even released back in April (I was helping with the public beta testing).

I wanted to think positive about this product but 6 months for a minor bug fix release means this product got really no development time out of the whole from the programmers, they were working on other things.

Mike
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: kickwizard on December 10, 2014, 09:50:47 pm
Im working on windows 7 cubase artist 7.5

I dont have that many bugs maybe Im lucky and also don't use it to the full potential

Its true though about evolving tech especially regarding yosemite and cubase 8 although im sure they have
a broad spectrum of compatibilty issues for OS's and DAWs

I dont think spark 2 is being left behind as the last two ASC versions have been vast improvements

From forum feedback i think the two most requested fixes are step sequencer follows numbering and
saving presets for FX and mixer routing (which i think is fixed in the mac version)



So stay positive Aries hopefully all should be good soon
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: Areis on December 11, 2014, 08:34:05 pm
Oh I am always positive, I felt really bad for the devs when Arturia pushed it out in June and they knew it wasn't ready. What can you do.

I still think Arturia has overall good products and it seems they are trying to alter their forward face (new website, management interfaces etc).

I wrote the controller scripts for Maschine and Bitwig, the next one I wanted to do was the SparkLE controller for step sequencing in Bitwig. So I do like their hardware, just some decisions of the "management" I would question this last year.

Anyway!
Mike
Title: Re: Half a year and no update?
Post by: mcx on December 24, 2014, 07:33:33 pm
personally i want them to take there time with an update as i dont want a repeat of last year when they delayed then rushed spark 2 i think just be patient im sure all there efforts are being put into the new audio box thing maybe this box will solve all of sparks problems lol