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Hello Devin!
Your ideas all sound good, and I think a combination of video-tutorials and

writing documentation is the way to go. I would gladly volounteer to do a

basic tutorial if you teach me how to sample a synth through synthclone.

For example, I have a synth inside LMMS (TripleOscillator) that I would

love to sample and use in other apps. How would I go about doing that

inside synthclone? (I guess the explanation would suffice for any synth

connectable via a jack-midi port, right?). That could probably generate a

simple tutorial of basic synth-cloning from me. I do however have to say

that I within the next maybe two weeks have a pretty packed schedual, so I

cannot promise anything timewise.
Another idea would be a forum, or a thread in an existing forum well

populated by LAU's, making it easy to post instructions and/or tutorials

for synthclone. Make it a community effort!
I will not be around LAC unfortunately.
Cheers!
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Devin Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Gabbe Nord  wrote:

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> > This sounds like a very interesting software for me, but I have no

> > experience with similar software, so I have no clue how I would go about

> to

> > use this one, and I can't seem to find any tutorial on how to do it?

>

> You're not the only person to bring up this problem.  There is very

> little documentation on how to use synthclone, and synthclone could

> benefit from input from user-experience experts to make the software

> more intuitive.  Unfortunately, synthclone has been a one-person

> operation up until now, and I'm not a user experience expert or

> particularly good at writing documentation.

>

> I would like to take some steps to rectify this problem.  Here are

> some ideas I have:

>

> 1.) Make a video tutorial on how to use synthclone.

>

> I'm considering submitting a drum kit to the Hydrogen Spring Drum Kit

> Contest by sampling kits I've made on my external drum synth using

> synthclone.  If and when I do, I'll create a video tutorial on how I

> use synthclone to create the Hydrogen drum kit.

>

> 2.) Find some time to write documentation.

>

> It might not be the greatest documentation ever, but it would be

> something.  The problem is that I wrote the software, and probably

> make some bad assumptions about what the user does and doesn't know

> that someone with a fresh perspective might not make.

>

> 3.) Get other people involved.

>

> I would love to have other people join me in helping to make

> synthclone better for everyone!  So, if you are (or anyone out there

> is) interested in contributing to synthclone, please let me know!

>

> What do you think about these ideas?  Do you have additional ideas

> that might help?

>

> I'll be at the Linux Audio Conference this week, so if you're going to

> be at LAC and have some ideas you'd like to discuss, please let me

> know.

>

> --

> Devin Anderson

> surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com

>

> blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/

> synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/

>

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Hello Devin!Your ideas all sound good, and I think a combination of=

 video-tutorials and writing documentation is the way to go. I would gladly=

 volounteer to do a basic tutorial if you teach me how to sample a synth th=

rough synthclone. For example, I have a synth inside LMMS (TripleOscillator=

) that I would love to sample and use in other apps. How would I go about d=

oing that inside synthclone? (I guess the explanation would suffice for any=

 synth connectable via a jack-midi port, right?). That could probably gener=

ate a simple tutorial of basic synth-cloning from me. I do however have to =

say that I within the next maybe two weeks have a pretty packed schedual, s=

o I cannot promise anything timewise.

Another idea would be a forum, or a thread in an existing forum well po=

pulated by LAU's, making it easy to post instructions and/or tutorials =

for synthclone. Make it a community effort!I will not be around LAC=

 unfortunately.

Cheers!On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:15 P=

M, Devin Anderson <surfacepatterns@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Gabbe Nord <gabbe.nord@gmail.com> wrote:

quoted text
> This sounds like a very interesting software for me, but I have no

> experience with similar software, so I have no clue how I would go abo=

ut to

quoted text
> use this one, and I can't seem to find any tutorial on how to do i=

t?

You're not the only person to bring up this problem. =A0There is =

very

little documentation on how to use synthclone, and synthclone could

benefit from input from user-experience experts to make the software

more intuitive. =A0Unfortunately, synthclone has been a one-person

operation up until now, and I'm not a user experience expert or

particularly good at writing documentation.
I would like to take some steps to rectify this problem. =A0Here are

some ideas I have:
1.) Make a video tutorial on how to use synthclone.
I'm considering submitting a drum kit to the Hydrogen Spring Drum Kit

Contest by sampling kits I've made on my external drum synth using

synthclone. =A0If and when I do, I'll create a video tutorial on how I<=

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use synthclone to create the Hydrogen drum kit.
2.) Find some time to write documentation.
It might not be the greatest documentation ever, but it would be

something. =A0The problem is that I wrote the software, and probably

make some bad assumptions about what the user does and doesn't know

that someone with a fresh perspective might not make.
3.) Get other people involved.
I would love to have other people join me in helping to make

synthclone better for everyone! =A0So, if you are (or anyone out there

is) interested in contributing to synthclone, please let me know!
What do you think about these ideas? =A0Do you have additional ideas

that might help?
I'll be at the Linux Audio Conference this week, so if you're going=

 to

be at LAC and have some ideas you'd like to discuss, please let me

know.
--

Devin Anderson

surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com
blog - h=

ttp://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/

synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/
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