Null Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I'm curious to know if anyone in this forum has considered writing an XW Companion Guide to the manuals they ship with? I've seen a few of the regulars in this forum display some pretty amazing in depth knowledge of these synths and between the FAQ threads compiled here and given the amazing technical abilities some people seem to have with the synths I'd be willing to pay good money for a Supplemental Guide to the XW Manual if someone here were to write one. Getting it published would be a no brainer. Amazon offers a print on demand service as well as e-books to anyone who wants to offer a book to the public for a nominal fee per copy. Let me tell ya, I've seen some real stinkers get published too. So how about it? Anyone out there have the technical savvy and the writing and editing skills to put something like this together? Considering the XW-P1 has to be one of the most popular synths Casio has ever released and the fact that the manual stinks like last week's fish this has to be a great opportunity for someone to polish up their resume and get something like this published and make a few thousand (or tens of thousands) bucks on fulfilling a basic need. Chas? Brad? Scott? XW-Addict? Come on guys... Help all us bums out who still need training wheels to figure out the XW menus :D Gary... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoovJazzy55 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 happyrat1, although I agree, I just get in there and start putzing around, trying this and try that, but I've been an old knob tweaker for many years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmark Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 The trouble with keyboard manuals is, they assume that the user already has a solid grasp of the basics of the product they have just purchased, for example Yamaha assume you have a degree in digital music science !I think they should be written in a step by step format and assume that the owner is a complete noob.If you like, keyboards for dummies ?Great idea there Gary, perhaps the experts on here could co-operate and make a XW Synth for Dummies available on PDF download ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I use the internet and Casio's manuals to my advantage. It served me well to learn everything I need to know about my keyboard. The manuals gave me all of the necessary information that is specific to my certain model. Everything else I needed is general synthesizer knowledge that I found elsewhere on the internet. The great Mike Martin also threw a few good tips out there in the hours of videos that he has made as well as his blog and tips in the forums. I had to work to learn how to use my keyboard but eventually I did learn and feel like I accomplished something in the process. BTW. I also use trial and error. and I'm still learning new stuff. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XW-Addict Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I've been thinking about it for quiet a while show and tell about how I dida patch or sequence or solosynth and delving in midi related things to do. Well I'm not a writer my English not that good most stuff I want to knowI just search for it on the web specially youtube if I see or read somethinginteresting I try it out on the synth to see if its possible mostly it does. The hardest thing would be keeping track of what I did on the synth byrepeating the process I can back track and save a step by step file ofeach changes it gets messy if you not name the project properly.That how I go at the synth for starters. Some subject are already tackled on the forum that should providea decent knowledge base sometimes I look something up in the searchbar. What I can't find will be turned in a question to forum members. The manual lacks a bit of explanations and examples especially the lastMike Martin did nice work showing a how to basis. Still I would know moreof the knobs and midi assignments stuff, Effect editing and doing the complicated stuff inside performance mode as well tone editing the PCM tonesor better yet recreating PCM by the monophonic solo synth. So many Ideas while I write this. The performance mode patches are nice examples but the functions that areavailable for Performance patches have a medium to master level there are so manypossibilities to do something and doing it right makes it a bit complicated never the less doable. I though the Japanese site would have P1, G1 users with patches for solo synth ,sequence or performance patches none of that as of yet not found by me at least,Still there are people out there not on the forum doing cool stuff I hope they find their way here to share their awesomus and findings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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