Re: Documentation, tutorials, videos? [WAS]: Re: Do we want LV2 and jack-midi?

On 6/11/22 9:39 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> It seems today videos are very popular, but I wonder if they can really 
> help people get started? Would a short written 'how to make sound with 
> Rosegarden' be better (also it could be updated versus a video which 
> might become obsolete)

Totally agree. I watch a lot of instructional videos and 90% of the time 
end up going "I just wasted 20 minutes extracting 15 seconds of useful 
information that could have been provided in a single paragraph of text."

On the other hand, millenials won't look at anything except video memes 
with flashy editing effects and snarky, post-ironic humor, so it depends 
on who you're trying to target. ;)


> With the above it's actually pretty easy to start making noise with 
> Rosegarden once the system is set-up ...

Totally agree ... once the system is set up. Rosegarden is an 
unfortunately typical *NIX application, one that I looked at casually a 
few times over the course of a year each time going "No sound is coming 
out. Probably broken and buggy. Forget it." before finally breaking down 
and putting in the effort to get it configured and working.

A simple popup at startup saying "No external sound source or internal 
plugin configured. Try <brief tutorial summary> or go to http://... for 
help" would be a big improvement.