Yes thank you Rob.

Pursuant to my reply to Harv just now, I think some simple and thoughtful instructions in the owner's manual could go a long way here.

Another thing that would be helpful is if someone at PG music simply constructed a template for an .seq file that was already set up and loaded if you will with all of the basic functions that are needed to create simple busees and a master bus and learning how to use the top row of the A1 features and the bottom row of the A1 features and so on and so forth with a very simple section in the manual written in excruciatingly plain English of what all of the routings are and how they work with simple screenshots. The slots could be loaded with some PG effects or Sforzando setups just to show you the logic and routing choices.

Then they can make this template created in House available for download so we could look at it and see how things are wired, with a SLOOOW MOVINGGGG video and a manual passage as an accompaniment to this training.

That's all I need. I need to see how it works.

Videos are usually not that helpful because they go too fast and huge chunks of information are left out so you have to keep rewinding in an effort to try and connect the dots only to find out that information to connect the dots isn't necessarily there.

Like with Cakewalk it's pretty simple what I need. To me, Cakewalk is so easy to figure out that a two-year-old could do it.

I need to know how to insert a soft synth, I need to know how to arm an audio track with vsts, I need to know how to set up different busses for drums, vocals, other instruments and so forth, and I need to know where the most common buttons for mixing, and creating envelopes are located, including instructions for undoing envelopes and stuff like that.

There's really only 25 things that you need to know in order to sit down and record and produce a song and they're pretty straightforward. I've mentioned most of them.

But I swear to the high heavens I look at this owner's manual sometimes and I try and figure out how to do the simplest thing and I just throw my hands up in the air and say forget it.

It's not like that with Cakewalk.

I don't understand why it can't be just very very simply explained insofar as the very basics are concerned. It can't be that hard. The things that you need to record and mix and render a song is a pretty short list.

I don't really need 500 pages, I need 20 good ones. Fred Flintstone simple.

Again, I don't think this is a software deficit I think it's an owner's manual deficit I really do.

Because many times I look at the manual the stuff that I really need to know just doesn't seem to be there.

I wonder if this is just me.

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