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Where’s the F***ing Manual?! | iOS Music Apps | haQ attaQ
Have you ever felt disorientated after opening up a new music app that you just purchased? So many buttons, knobs and faders but no directions. Have you ever lost your temper after looking for a manual without finding it? Here's a video just for you. I proudly present: "Don't freak out! - An experts advice on finding manuals hidden away inside iOS music apps."
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Good video to remind users (and developers) of the basics, Jakob. 👍
Handy info, @jakoB_haQ
Thanks
Now just praying for manuals on apps that have none (either in-app or online)
In the cases where no written manual exists, 9 times out of 10 someone has already made a YouTube tutorial or demo.
Wow! Ha ha that’s great!
When trying to learn stuff, I personally prefer video tutorials myself.
However when making tutorials, I prefer having access to a proper manual. I least double/triple check my work just to be certain. However I make mistakes though. 😅
A well written manual brings joy to my soul... and is vital for really getting to grips with an app. Shout out to SUGAR BYTES for excellent and thorough manuals. Also to Fabfilter, and others.
But yes, good video tutorials are vital too ... again a shout out to Tom Cosm for his excellent Sugar Bytes videos on Factory and Aparillo ...
True, and that works for a lot of people, but I really prefer written manuals. I read much faster than most people talk, and tend to find the voices and presentation manners of most YouTube demoers somewhat irritating (for YT creators in this community: it's me, not you). I also am usually interested in more esoteric features which are less likely to be covered by YT demos which generally (and quite understandably) cater to the most common uses of an app.
um, so you made a VIDEO to tell me where to find manuals. How about a MANUAL to show me where to find manuals?
Just a little kidding. Thanks for this.
As for the discussion, videos can be EXTREMELY useful, but when there's a specific answer required, watching a 30 minute video to figure out how to open MIDI settings doesn't make sense. Many youtubers are starting to add a timeline index so you can zip right to a specific portion of their vid, and that has improved the environment a lot. A secondary advantage of manuals over vids is that you can "take it with you". You don't have to have Web access to open it.
That’s very much in line with my way of thinking with manuals - it’s always good to have them to check that I haven’t missed anything if video tutorials or trial and error don’t give me a full understanding of how the app works.
From a developer point of view, manuals are bad. Just go look at the one star reviews I have on the App Store because someone opened the manual and then were never able to get back into the AU. This actually kinda surprises me because other reviews I have lead me to think that almost no one ever reads the manual.
Gonna toot my own horn a little as the author of the SB Nest manual 😉 (design credit to SB though hehe)
The design is fine but it's the content that counts
(Structure, detail, clarity etc)
I never use a manual…and it shows 😱😎😇
I also prefer manuals to videos, funny enough 🤪
For me , The best Manual presentation is via tool tips example Fabfilter and lot of Mac/pc apps
+100
But that doesn't happen with a simple (separate) PDF manual though, no?
In-app manuals are second-rate at best. I don't see any good reason an app can't drop a PDF as part of its installation. The Animoog in-app manual is currently broken, but at least there's a PDF version too.
I agree Mark - it's fine if the in-app manual remembers its position and has an option to print, if not, a pdf manual should be standard for any app that is not 100% intuitive, even to a beginner. Another observation is that devs often don't make it easy for people to find the manual on their website.
If you mean the getting lost part, my manual is the container app. So it is completely separate from the AU and I don't really know how it is that people get lost in it. But, I guess that since my plugins are free I get lots of people that haven't ever used a plugin before and they don't know how they work yet. I get quite a few emails concerning the same thing. This is usually with GarageBand which doesn't make it easy for new users to figure out how to use a plugin. Luckily, I can point them at a Pete Johns YT video on how to use plugins in GB and the problem is solved.
If you mean the reading the manual part, then no, using a PDF for the manual doesn't help at all. I used to do all my Mac AU manuals as PDF docs and my impression from them was that almost no one even bothered to copy them out of the DMG.
I prefer to put all my manuals in one folder so I can open them on the iPad anytime I want to without having to open the app. In PDF format I can also annotate them. Definitely preferable to something embedded in the app.
+1 to this. I keep a folder of manuals in GoodReader, with subfolders for apps and hardware, because librarian. 😉
This, totally. No YouTuber besides Dan Worrall gets right and immediately to the point…there’s always some stammering or tangents or just too much talking before getting to the subject…it makes me squirm, so I prefer reading the manual.
Plus, again like you said, I’m usually reading a manual for deeper or “hidden” features to get full use out of it instead of just basic functionality.
Things seem better these days, but for a while it was so frustrating to locate a manual sometimes for these apps that obviously had a lot of attention put into them but little information available to actually advertise their more subtle features. I hate the feeling of having to find secrets in an app like it’s a damn video game you have to explore every cranny of.
I actually keep mine in Dropbox so I can access them from any device. Sometimes if I’m out and have nothing else to do, I might just pull one up on my phone and read up on something where I’m not sure how part of it works.
Exactly - I also like to annotate sometimes