The bus master works in 64bits?

jaslan · November 26, 2013, 2:21pm

Patanjali:

jaslan:

I wouldn’t call someone else and then ask them to find it for me.

Of course, but a phone book is simply an alphabetical list, with the sole content being a self-contained single string of digits with only one interpretation.

A manual for a program as complex as Cubase is nowhere near as linear, has many interrelations with material elsewhere in the manual, nor do the headings always convey the complete contents below them. And the complex nature of the material is not always readily understood from the text and pictures.

Just a few tedious ventures into the manual can be enough to dissuade one from choosing it as the first point of call.

I often find that the material seems to need experience with the program before one can understand it. If one is at the start of the experience ladder, then consultation with experienced users can short-circuit a lot of grief, and can be a whole lot quicker.

As a professional tech writer, I think the manual would need to be several times larger to adequately cover the knowledge and procedures required for a beginner. As it is, it is a rough indicator of Cubase’s facilities and a few of the possible usage scenarios.

Of course… And I don’t claim that every case of “RTFM” is justified but there are certainly times where the person asking the question is just being lazy.
The phone book example was somewhat of a “fun” example. Many better examples exist.

Tax attorneys don’t read the entire tax code but they know how to find the answer.
Doctors don’t read every medical publication but they know how to find an answer.
etc…
My point is that not reading the manual is not an excuse for not trying to find an answer.