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how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:06 am
by buzby
hi - so there is no need to watch this if you are n’t totally new to ableton but if you ever felt like telling someone to RTFM - now you can do it politely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--97ljtbwTk
this also shows where to find the built lessons - a good starting point for total beginners
cheers
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:01 am
by Goddard
RT...M?
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 8:44 am
by JDFS
F, RTM.
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:06 pm
by jbodango
Is there a video that shows me how to do that?
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:07 pm
by regretfullySaid
Say it in lower case
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:13 pm
by musikmachine
Is this a rickroll?
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:55 pm
by tedlogan
"how to politely tell someone to RTFM"
: PRTFM
Please Read The Fucking Manual.
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 8:55 pm
by musikmachine
tedlogan wrote:"how to politely tell someone to RTFM"
: PRTFM
Please Read The Fucking Manual.
It's political correctness gone mad!
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:52 am
by Martin Gifford
You can tell me 5,000,000 times to RTFM, but I would rather WAAV (watch any Ableton video) even on a F'g unrelated topic. Indeed...
Rather learn the wrong thing in a youtube Ableton video than RTFM.
Rather watch a Cubase video than RTFM.
Rather watch a McDonald's ad than RTFM.
Rather FTFM than RTFM.
Rather hook up a mic and record the sound of fanning through the pages than RTFM.
Rather write nonsense on the Ableton Forum than RTFM.
Hate RTFM.
This is 2015. Videos exist now.
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:03 am
by tedlogan
https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/welcome-to-live/
I highly recommend anyone who uses Live a lot to read the manual in its entirety. Concise and extremely informative, with no bullshit or misinformation. In many cases, you'd get the info you seek much quicker simply looking it up in the online manual than watching a YouTube video. And I would guess that all the YouTube videos combined do not cover everything the manual covers.
Reading is good.
Manuals are great.
The Live manual is also actually an enjoyable read.
Don't get me wrong - YouTube is a fantastic resource (at the same time also a bottomless quagmire of crap), but it is not a replacement for Live's manual.
PRTFM.
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:07 am
by mrdelurk
I *love* manuals. Open the PDF, run a word search on the term, bam! you're reading it on page 437.
This, compared to some never-ending video with no indication when it's going to get to the issue I want wins in a nanosecond for me.
Ted Talk videos, science movies, anything video, actually... I head straight for the transcript. Why waste a whole hour watching the video if I can read, grasp the transcript and be outta there in 5 minutes. Time is precious.
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:44 am
by BoddAH
I don’t like reading.
Reading is for nerds.
/sarcasm
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 2:36 pm
by Buleriachk
BoddAH wrote:I don’t like reading.
Reading is for nerds.
/sarcasm
Yeah, you have to learn stuff like key signatures, and other stuff...
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:05 am
by mrdelurk
BoddAH wrote:I don’t like reading.
Reading is for nerds.
/sarcasm
Can we get this as a video?
Re: how to politely tell someone to RTFM
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:53 am
by BoddAH
mrdelurk wrote:BoddAH wrote:I don’t like reading.
Reading is for nerds.
/sarcasm
Can we get this as a video?
Is a picture OK too?
