AIR 3 Beta for Mac

[mdconnelly]

Hi guys. Long time reader on this very useful forum, but rather limited posting from me so far.

Anyway; I've been running AIR 2.1.3 ethernet for 6 months or so, and have luckily steered clear of the reported audio related issues with Air 2 (white noise, drop-outs, clicks etc). 

However, the last few weeks the BSOD critter has reared its ugly head in my setup so often that I recently had to revert to using USB into my Dev. Nothing has changed in my setup hardware-wise, but I suspect that some regular Windows system updates may have had an impact in some way? I'm running Windows 10 btw. 

I'm not familiar with Mac whatsoever, so please forgive my ignorance when asking this: is the blue screen/total system crash an issue with Mac-based setups? If so, have any of you seen any development, for better or worse, when going from Air 2 to Air 3? I'm hopeful for the Win-version of Air 3, but based on the partly flawed software history of the Expert series, I also fear the worst to be honest.

I'm not a Mac user either so can't speak to BSOD on a Mac.  But, when I first starting using AIR 2.1.3, (late last summer I think) I would get BSODs all the time on my Win 10 PC... even when I was NOT playing music via AIR.   Removed AIR and the BSODs stopped.  Then somewhere along the way I gave AIR another shot and - surprise - no more BSODs - I assumed due to Windows updates but it was also about the time firmware 9.0.1 came along.  So to be honest, haven't a clue why the BSODs stopped.  
So I went back to using AIR until the white noise problem started driving me nuts.

I haven't seen a BSOD now in months and I do leave AIR installed and active now on my Win 10 box, even though I don't stream via AIR regularly now that I've got a Sonore uRendu to stream via USB to my Dev 200.