The promo gives you the first two chapters which are awesome. They make X1 seem so simple. The guy has a great voice. I just tried it since Wednesday and definitely will subscribe.
I've also tried videos from ASK on Cubase and ProTools. They were very good and helped me understand products that were totally new to me.
I'd say the Groove 3 videos are the best I've seen.
I own almost all of the Sonar vids. The older ones are hopeless. The Hal Leonard series is a rip off - the guy is floundering all over the screens, the video looks godawful on your PC and they go nowhere.
I'm going to order Scott's book but don't expect much from it. It's more of a reference manual than a tutorial.
You can't read Sonar Power cover to cover and learn the product. The material is too complex and dry.
I've tried, Lord knows, to learn from them in a systematic way but it's too frustrating to read the book, try to find the stuff he talks about on the computer, try it out, go back to the book. The monochromatic illustrations aren't very helpful. Scott uses a lot of terms under the assumption you have memorized what he wrote before, which is a bad assumption.
Sonar Power books do provide good reference material, although more illustrations of how features work and the various options/outcomes would make them better.
A better use of Scott's talents would be to contract with Cakewalk to produce an online reference that is linked to the screens with the F1 key. People want to understand software in context.
Before some one accuses me of being stupid, I have a very high IQ, read constantly and write for a vocation. My first writing was paid journalism when I was 14 years old. My current writing project - NJN Network - gets 2 million hits a month with mainly original content. I also owned a computer training school for 5 years and know a fair amount about adult learning.
I'm not bragging but if you touch a sacred cow on this forum some people like to jump in with the
ad hominem comments.
I have come to the conclusion that books are not modern learning tools. People are used to video and computer learning.
I have most of the Photoshop/Premier books but really learned the products from Lynda's video series. Nothing beats a human showing you how to do something.
That's why piano is still taught from one person to another. The nice thing about video learning is you can do it at anytime and at your own pace.
post edited by sdpate - 2011/04/09 04:41:03