Talk:OLIVER/@comment-26116982-20150216233922/@comment-53539-20150330183253

Since you can convert V2's to the file types for V3, the fear isn't retirement from updating, but instead retirement from sales. You can update V2's to V3 and V4 file types.

So V2 is covered all the way up to the V4 file type right now thanks to it. So a full on retirement will at this point of time occur for V2 and V3, the same time as V4 thanks to the bridge.

So, the biggest retirement "fear" here is not a full on retirement of the vocals, but rather just the sale of it.

In overall times, support was basically over the moment V3 was released... I honestly hope that it never comes to the point wherein Yamaha stops backwards compatibility because this means fans can still have reason to buy V2s.