Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

eRalm,

I appreciated your "faqs" on the XL-7,which I had downloaded prior to
joining this group.

1.I also agree with the majority of what your proposing here (though I have
personally always found E-mu's manuals to be among the most thorough,best
layed-out, and informative),I would add that getting a "quick answer" to
anything is knowing what to ask."newbies" are particularly frustrated,by not
knowing "what" a thingy or process is called,which is compounded by many
manufacturers using the same or like names, for completely different
things.(e.g.ones "pattern" is anothers "group" and yet anothers "bank").

2.A cookbook being a "how-to",not a re-write of the existing manual as you
know,(but some others seem to think is required),have you considered a video
tutorial?(broken down into easily assimilated chunks by topic of course),and
baring in mind the attention span of the average muso.

3.Downloadable PDF. "updates" are the hot tip,though it wrongly assumes
that everyone is, can, or will be "online".And is, can, or will be willing
or need to actually read it.

4.Default "guru's" become such via the recognition of/for their "labor of
love".Renumeration? Hmmm...

5.Hope your girl-friend doesn't check your "sent" folder.

Happy Birthday,

best,
g.

    From: erik_magrini@...
Reply-To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xl7] Manual
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 06:56:19 -0600

Honestly, I don't think that Emu needs to include section on hwo to write
music, there's tons of articles on that online if you're looking for it.
The stuff I had in mind, is consolidating the sections of the manual.  Say
preset editing, it's actually in a couple different spots, when it really
should all be one.  They should break it up into the following chapters:

1. Intro/Connections
2. General/Global options
3. Pattern Sequencing
4. Song Sequencing
5. Presets
6. Midi
7. Controllers
8. Misc

Each chapter should have two parts, first a beginners section describing
what all basics are, and maybe giving a few real life examples.  The
second section would be an indepth explaination of each menu option,
focusing more on experienced users and circumstances.  Nothing against
people just starting out, but once you start knowing this stuff, it sucks
wading through pages and pages of manual on "what is synthesis", when you
only want to find a quick answer to a preset menu question.

rEalm






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