Alchemy Mobile has been resurrected!
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 44 posts since 10 Aug, 2011
I know this could be posted in the mobile section but I figure most people needing this would miss the news.
Curtesy of discchord.com from what I understand you have to use a link from your iOS device to find it in the App Store. Cheers!
http://discchord.com/blog/2015/5/28/alc ... nd-of.html
Curtesy of discchord.com from what I understand you have to use a link from your iOS device to find it in the App Store. Cheers!
http://discchord.com/blog/2015/5/28/alc ... nd-of.html
- KVRAF
- 35415 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
It's taken a while but Camel did promise to make it possible for Alchemy Mobile owners to download their IAPs etc, glad they came through.
- KVRAF
- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
Hardly something to get cheerful about.aMUSEd wrote:It's taken a while but Camel did promise to make it possible for Alchemy Mobile owners to download their IAPs etc, glad they came through.
It was Camel Audio that made it impossible in the first place.
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- KVRAF
- 1895 posts since 13 Oct, 2002
Actually I suspect it was Apple that did that; Camel Audio may have pushed to get their legacy customers' purchases respected. And it might have been agreed from the get-go that this was going to happen but it just took this long to code a test a solution that worked for everyone.Numanoid wrote:It was Camel Audio that made it impossible in the first place.
A lot can be conjectured in the absense of facts. Both good and bad.
- KVRAF
- 4879 posts since 25 Jan, 2014 from The End of The World as We Knowit
It's fully functional in the App store for existing customers. I got a new iPad after the CA buyout and now all the Pro features and libraries are restored on it.
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- KVRAF
- 1895 posts since 13 Oct, 2002
Interestingly, any libraries purchased after the Apple acquisition don't appear as "Free": Apple's hard line or an unintentional omission?
The real questions are: who do we ask and where?
The real questions are: who do we ask and where?
- KVRAF
- 3210 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from People's Republic of Minnesota
Yes, and who agreed to this? Oh yeah, Camel Audio did. They deserve just as much of a f*** you as Apple does, imo.Breeze wrote:Actually I suspect it was Apple that did that
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- KVRAF
- 1895 posts since 13 Oct, 2002
Don't get me wrong: I totally understand your bitterness and resentment. I think the only reason Apple agreed to reactivate this app, its IAPs, and connexion to owned banks in the full version is image.masterhiggins wrote:Yes, and who agreed to this? Oh yeah, Camel Audio did. They deserve just as much of a f*** you as Apple does, imo.
Sadly. as long as we live in the corporate environment we live in, this will happen again and again. It's happened before. Even Steinberg has changed hands 3 time in its long history. But Apple is unique in that its MO is all about denying previously available tools to the PC world in order to boost their hardware sales: I agree that there's something fundamentally despicable about that.
But look at the new amazing Scoring app available only for the Microsoft Surface. It looks like Microsoft is learning the lessons of its arch rival. I expect they'll try to push more of this kind of platform-dependant software. And again, sadly we may find ourselves buying platform independent software that eventually becomes platform dependant. Let's hope it doesn't go that way; if anything, we can try to make choices that discourage it.
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- KVRAF
- 2167 posts since 7 Dec, 2005
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- KVRAF
- 16977 posts since 23 Jun, 2010 from north of London ON
I also updated it. Just because...
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If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing
If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing
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- KVRist
- 361 posts since 14 Jan, 2014 from Germany
How, though? Those choices can only be reactive, not preemptive. There is nothing you can really do if a company, like in the case of Camel Audio, can't resist the money on the table and abandons their customers in order to cash in on the product that the Windows users (also) made a success.Breeze wrote:Let's hope it doesn't go that way; if anything, we can try to make choices that discourage it.
I can't even blame Apple in this. They are consistent with their business strategy, and everyone (including Camel Audio's decision makers when they agreed to sell out) knows what to expect. You really couldn't predict that Camel Audio would be willing to agree to such terms, and then not support them, however.
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- KVRAF
- 1895 posts since 13 Oct, 2002
You're right of course. When I wrote that, I was considering that encouraging devs that make multi-platform software instead of devs that make platform independent software, or charge for each platform, could be a way to try to stem the tide. But in the end, it can happen to any product whose company sells their IP to a platform-polarized player.Mivo wrote:How, though? Those choices can only be reactive, not preemptive.
I guess we're stuck being victims in this game whenever something gets scuttled to the opposite camp.
Ultimately, maybe what might save us is someone writing a meta-OS that could run anything... but now I'm dreaming. Although it would make a fascinating novel...
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- KVRAF
- 2167 posts since 7 Dec, 2005
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- KVRAF
- 4879 posts since 25 Jan, 2014 from The End of The World as We Knowit
For me, its awesome being able to play every preset on my desktop Alchemy using the keyboard & remix pads on my ipad Alchemy. Great feature. I'm rediscovering both apps now.....
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- KVRian
- 835 posts since 28 Apr, 2014 from Texas
People get all cozy with these companies that are seemingly so pro consumer until something like this happens. Seen it a million times.masterhiggins wrote:Yes, and who agreed to this? Oh yeah, Camel Audio did. They deserve just as much of a f*** you as Apple does, imo.Breeze wrote:Actually I suspect it was Apple that did that
Its just a matter of setting your expectations realistically and you will never get burned.
SW: Cubase 9.5 | Komplete 11 | Omnisphere 2 | Perfect Storm 2.5 | Soundtoys 5
HW: Steinberg UR28M | Focal Alpha 50 | Fender Jazz Bass | Alesis VI25
HW: Steinberg UR28M | Focal Alpha 50 | Fender Jazz Bass | Alesis VI25