Hi Peter, i had a great new year gig where i performed 72 songs from 7pm to 2am and i can say ST3 didnt miss a beat, but as usual little things go wrong, so i am mentioning them again in hope we can improve them in future.
As i was setting up my airturn stomp 6 fired up immediately but my Digit 3 would not be recognized by the ipad no matter what i tried so i gave up and used my fingers to control ipad when i was near the microphone and my stomp 6 to stop start and choose next songs, so i am giving feedback from that perspective.
I had a very engaging audience so song requests were flying in frequently, so i had to use search to help, and this is where i struggled the most, the thing i dont like about search is when i am in a new years playlist i can not just hit a search request type in my search select the song to be next and exit and be back on my playlist, I HATE LEAVING MY PLAYLIST TO SEARCH IN SONG MODE, WHEN PERFORMING I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING I NEED ON STAGE ON THAT ONE PAGE, what is most frustrating is having to hit multiple things to achieve a search, firstly you have to choose SONG mode as there is no search in playlists, then you hit the search box which then doas nothing but place the cursor there without a keyboard, then i have to hit my STOMP 6 red button on off switch to bring up the keyboard so i can then type in my search, then once i have got results i need to scroll by finger on the screen to find a song as its the quickest way to do it with the keyboard covering most of the screen , once i have found my next song i choose it as next, BUT NOW I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING IN REVERSE TO GET BACK TO MY PLAYLIST, i have to press the foot switch red button to make the keyboard drop down and then i have to select playlists to get back to my performance, NOW THIS IS DRAINING WHEN YOU HAVE TO DO IT NUMEROUS TIMES IN A NIGHT.

MY IDEAL OPERATION WOULD BE WHEN USING A PLAYLIST IS TO HAVE WITHIN A THE PLAYLIST A SEARCH BUTTON WHEN PRESSED A KEYBOARD IS PRESENTED TO YOU TO TYPE IN YOUR SEARCH CHOOSE A SONG THAN PRESS THAT SAME BUTTON TO CLOSE THE SEARCH AND YOU ARE DONE,
That would be the operation i would be happy with, at the moment search is way to clumsy and awkward not to mention the IPHONE operation of search is virtually useless as to get to the search bar as it is burried way too deep in to the back of ST3 that it becomes a handy feature only if you are not performing even then its awkward.

Why not just have a search button in all windows that opens up the search funtion allows you to find a song and hit that same button to exit search, in all orientations and playback mode windows.
Why make it so awkward and different on all devices surely a search button that opens up the same way in all devices in all orientations is the way to go.

That was my biggest hurdle on a very demanding night with my stupid STOMP 6 that cant seem to operate in direct mode and my crappy Digit 3 that let me down at the moment i needed it most.
As you can imagine i am not impressed with the airturn reliability and comlexity of their slightly older versions of foot pedals.
Perhaps i need to do more research and upgrade my remotes to something more reliable and logical to use.
If anyone has devices they are totally happy with can you pass on the brands and models please, thanks in advance.

Heres another little thing, in HISTORY can we have the file number count as well next to date so we can easily see how many songs we performed on the night without having to count them manually.
I use my iphone ST3 to play the background music list so this makes my history play count accurate on the ipad plus it keeps my ipad on the performace playlist so i dont have to change to another playlist, and also acts as my backup device incase the ipad shits itself i can quicly take over with the iphone, i believe having an instant backup is always wise that way the show just goes on without the audience having to know there was ever an issue.

So to sum it up i believe the search method needs improvement to suit all devices , and i strongly believe more effort needs to be put in to design the system so once you are in a PLAYLIST you dont ever need to leave this window once you are performing, this would make me feel a lot more at ease when on stage.

Happy new year to all!