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How do you learn how to use an app?
How do you learn how to use an app?
I’ve spent the past few weeks reflecting on how I learn new things.
I’ve found that I usually check the app, look at the description, see if it does what I need, download the app, try and figure out the app, give up, visit the app a few weeks later, try again after watching a video, then repeat the process until it clicks.
I have only read a few manuals for apps ( Xequence, NanoStudio 2, and Beathawk), and usually I tend to Google places I’m stuck at, which leads to forum posts, YouTube videos, and other discussions. Which is weird... the manual should be the first thing I look at, but it seems to be a bit of an inconvenience because I have to dive through multiple pages to get to the answer I need.
A lot of the apps I tend to use regularly are
1. Apps which either does one thing well (e.g Blue Mangoo Attack Softener, Virsyn Barkfilter, TONALY)
2. are designed with simplicity in mind (GarageBand, Groovebox, Reason Compact, Koala),
3. or are batshit crazy (Drambo, Mixbus, AUM, NanoStudio 2, Audiobus, Gadget 2)
Which brings me to this post...how do you learn about an application? And which apps do you regularly find yourself using?
(No video link this week, but I plan on making one eventually on the subject - youtube.com/seonnthaproducer)
- How do you learn how to use an app?32 votes
- Watch video tutorials first (e.g Gavinski, Red Sky Lullaby, The Sound Test Toom,Jakobhaq, etc)34.38%
- Read the manual only.6.25%
- Read the manual, try the app, then give up3.13%
- Use the app, then Google resources25.00%
- Other31.25%
Comments
Other (brute force)
What is this ‘learn’ of which you speak?
I need multiple selections and does anyone ever truly learn anything, lol.
I use a combo of YouTube, manual, and fiddling around with it, but I dive right in to see what I can’t get first, then go back and learn from YouTube, manual, and this forum to figure out what I don’t know. ( you could have added this forum/wiki to the list)
Respect!
Does it help you with those mesmerising Russian-dev type of app interfaces as well? I need something to crack those...
These days I’m a lot more tired, I must economise any cognitive investment. Now, a thing has to earn the rent by being obvious, offer flow, not be obtuse.
I leverage my existing knowledge. I won’t read a manual. If I can’t figure it out in my first few mins with it, I’ll either never come back to it, or that little I have figured out will henceforth be all I ever use of it.
There are exceptions, for example having got this far into it, I would now read a manual for Shockwave, but there isn’t one.
I use a combination of YouTube, and the app, but then I am looking for a forum to discover what I am not doing. Sometimes scarica video (it.savefrom.net/download-from-twitter) gives twitter to use the corresponding app
I tend to google what I need and google often leads me here. I write down the potential buys and watch youtube videos about them ( Doug, Gavinski, SoundForMore ...). I’m prone to tunnel visions, so I make sure to check if any of the apps I already own can do what I’m looking for. This often leads to existential questions such as, “do I need another synth? Does it have to only be auv3? Can’t Drambo do that? “ At that point I’m deeply invested in the process that I feel disappointed if I don’t buy a new app.
Edit: I often redo the same steps right after buying the app.
It’s a great question. Having migrated from hardware I was used to manuals - I had no problem trawling through them over the course of an evening and learning how to use the instrument and then referring back to it if required. I have for a long time found it quite bizarre that someone would take the time to develop an app, yet not take a little more time to write a manual in order that it can be used and understood to its full potential - generating better reviews and then more sales as a result.
I know some people are happy to learn by experimenting.... but please.... give us the option. I don’t want to waste my time unnecessarily.
Actually I think it is a bit of an snub to the purchaser.
This is why there is so much scope for the tutorial video makers to exploit - and I do enjoy and appreciate them.... we all have our favourites p😀, and so many people wondering if they should ask that ‘stupid question’ on the forum.
In fact a bit off topic granted.... why would anyone make a synth app and hope to sell it based on the description only ???.. no demo, video - nothing??? ... I mean in what institution is this marketing technique taught? - how much do they charge for a degree over a three years course?
1: I tweak the knobs and push the bottuns to see if works.
2: If it doesn’t i’ll tjeck out youtube.
3: repeat step 1.
4: If I haven’t learned everything or if I want to deeper I tjeck youtube again or search audiobus forum.
Fiddle it till you make a complete mess, pick up another app that you understand, when calmed down, pick it up again with a more careful approach.
Other = All of the above
Fiddle it till you make a complete mess, leave it, wait for an opportunity to fit it in a project, learn it the hard way.
Try to accomplish what you had in mind, be disappointed that it can't, try to make a workaround to accomplish what you had in mind.
Making music with apps you don’t know how to use is the mother of invention.
I thought Sector was a good sample mashup app, but got quickly out of potential. Then Scatterbrain came out. Fiddling with Scatterbrain and Sector and some other source material, i came to a point what Sector should be.
None of the choices really reflect how I go about it as it’s “all of the above” for me. It just varies based on the time I have, complexity of the app, etc.
Greetings for all!
My way to be familiar with the new app:
1. Get the app after reading all possible sources (usually/mainly this forum)
2. Gettin' all possible written stuff, like official manuals, download them to have them handy
3. Start to use this app intuitivelly (sp?), to get max by intuition.
4. If something doesn't works — then check the manual
5. If still something doesn't works — look at the video tutorials/tests (Doug/Jakob/Daveypoo/SynthGuy and others)
6. If still something doesn't works — attacking/stalking the developer, like poor @Ali_Göktürk
Those steps usually works.
Stay safe. Stay sane.
Voytec
I voted "Read the manual only" because that is my preference. In reality it's almost never the case since there is almost never a manual, and when there is it's extremely rare that it is comprehensive.
Diving in and exploring is usually the next best option.
Videos are the last option. I'm sorry, but I can't stand wading through the rest of a video just to get to the 10 seconds of explanation I need to answer a question, and too often finding it's not covered anyway. This isn't to detract at all from the great content creators here, it's me, not you. I just don't have the patience for videos.
Forum posts are a great source of learning. When questions are asked and answered, I take note. When they're not answered, I usually investigate.
😂
Imagine how much data storage, bandwidth and time is wasted globally by those annoying reminders to “like & subscribe” in every video.