Re: [LAU] Cooking with Gas

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:55 PM, david <gnome@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Folderol wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:10:36 -1000
> > david <gnome@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Folderol wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is a set of ZynAddSubFX tutorials produced by the man himself.
> >>>
> >>> I can recommend them all, and be prepared to be amazed :O
> >>>
> >>> http://www.youtube.com/user/zynaddsubfx
> >> Too bad they're not a format that can be kept handy and readily referred
> >> to as desired - like text? Oh, that's right, nobody knows how to read
> >> anymore.
> >>
> >> ;-)
> >>
> > Are you serious?
> >
> > The guy who designed this synth, putting an enormous amount of work
> > into it, and now has gone to even more effort to produce these
> > tutorials, happens to be Romanian. What language would you like the
> > text to be in? Maybe you could go over there and, at your own expense,
> > give him lessons in the dialect of your choice.
>
> Text can be translated very easily, doesn't have to be done by the
> person doing the speaking. Once it's done, it's done - the translation
> is always available. But anything spoken/recorded in one language needs
> to be interpreted by someone else every time someone who doesn't speak
> the presenter's language. The only way around that is for multiple
> versions of the video,
>
> > Also, I'd be extremely interested to hear your thoughts about how to
> > demonstrate a *sound* as text.
>
> Sounds can be demonstrated quite easily via the same web that we use to
> watch YouTube vids ... a simple link on a text page is sufficient for that.
>
> > Sheesh. The stuff is free in every sense of the word and all you can do
> > is complain.
>
> Free or fee, the silly belief that learning is best done via video is
> something I complain about. And I used to do technology training for a
> living, so I know about the strengths/weaknesses of the various ways of
> delivering training.
>
> My only small request with Zyn would be he somehow find a way to fix its
> ability to just freeze up, quite responding, and turn into a zombie ...
>
> --
> David
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My suggestion would be then to sit down and watch the videos and write out
every step he's doing step by step and share it, so everyone benefits.

Daniel Worth

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Received on Wed Dec 2 20:15:04 2009