Re: [LAU] Announcing synthclone-0.2.0! Now in beta!

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