So what? If you can't be arsed answering their questions then they'll have to work it out themselves. The other new users, who don't expect everything to fall in their laps, have got real questions. And who better to ask than a forum full of nice people with a huge bank of knowledge (I'm talking about us)Martyn wrote:The trouble is, there are now lots of new users coming into the fray who think that using audio software is going to be as easy and immediate as dropping two bits of vinyl onto two turntables and pushing a fader up.
:):)Mmmmm, and some people are kind enough to say "read this book" and that only takes half a second of anyone's time...This is not the case, if a newbie has no knowlege at all of midi and recording, then he or she has a lot of learning to do. Nobody on a forum like this is going to be able to help beyond pointing them in the direction of suitable literature, people write WHOLE BOOKS on the subject.
Absolutely true. But as DJRetard says, some of this stuff is utterly unfamiliar to your average newbie. Don't you remember the first time you used a computer mouse ? It felt like you would NEVER be able to control that thing. And look at you now. Remember what it felt like to know nothing. It will make you feel good about how far you have progressed and make it feel like a privilege to help someone who knows as little as you used to know...I think Ableton have gone to extremes in their brilliant tutorials, both included in Live and on the wesite, the manual is the clearest and best layed out I've ever seen with any app.
Yep. And once you've answered the utterly simple newbie question that newbie will carry right on learning all the other hard stuff they couldn't get to because no-one would answer their noob-query...You have to do some work yourself if you want to learn anything that's good. It took me years and years to learn to play guitar, years to learn the ins and outs (ooh a pun) of midi via Atari, then cubase vst then Logic (all without manuals) through Reason and onto Ableton live at version 2. All hard won knowlege acheived through research, trial an error and perseverance.
I bet you'd have loved it if you dropped a message on a forum and cool people answered your question... Ain't it great ? Makes this place what it is...There are a LOT of VERY knowlegable artists that use this forum, they all answer questions from anybody and everybody all the time. That means that they freely give their hard won knowlege so that others can grow quicker than they themselves might have.
Cos we live in an instantaneous society... Ableton Live offers you and everybody else a MUCH faster wasy of producing music than a 24 track studio with ten feet of mixer and a patchbay like a medusa's merkin... don't knock it! It's also rewarding when you learn something and a cool person has helped you along and just given you a wee nudge in the right direction.Why does everything have to be so damn instant for some people these days? Good things take time to learn but that makes it much, much, MUCH more rewarding when that difficult thing you are trying your hardest to figure out finally clicks.
I say... ENCOURAGE THE NEWBIES !!! NEWBIES ARE OUR FUTURE !!! FEED THE NEWBIES !!!
PS I think AdamJay was just kidding with the rtfm comment...
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