Looking through my downloads, there was an upgrade to the JABB library at the end of 2005. Garritan didn't particularly call it "2," but there were subsequent upgrades to the Native Instrument's free Kontact Player which was then commonly referenced as KP2. (Many Garritan customers use(d) the KP2 as host, not the full Kontact.) I suspect the "3" is to emphasize the fact that Aria represents a new hosting direction, totally independent of NI. Garritan had expressed issues with his dependency on NI, both technical and businesswise. IIRC, lots of discussion about it on the Garritan forums.

-Ron

EDIT - BTW, there's significantly more to the new version than just the host change, including new instruments. Details here.

Last edited by rkl122; 05/22/10 09:56 PM.