X-Custom Flash Tutorial

[Joseph Burrell]

Guys,

Here's a 'beta' introduction/tutorial to using the X-Custom instruments in Garritan Personal Orchestra. It is an interactive walkthrough on how to load and configure the X-Custom instruments.

Using the X-Custom Instruments: A Flash Tutorial (http://www.lostandlonging.com/VirtualDesktop.html)

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Note: You must have Macromedia Flash Player installed to view this tutorial. Also, to follow along at home, you must have the X-Custom library installed on your PC.

Look out for more of these in the future!

[EJ]

How do you get to step two? EJ

[Joseph Burrell]

Follow the on screen instructions. You will need to follow the directions displayed on screen to go to the next step. The first set of instructions says to load the Flute Solo V patch... Then step two will display.

[Garritan]

Joseph,

Amazing work! This interactive tutorial will sure make it easier to navigate and learn about this addition to the GPO library. Thanks for doing this.

Gary Garritan

[bmonroney]

Wow, that is a slick, well-designed tutorial.

[Joseph Burrell]

Thanks for the kind words, I just hope someone finds it helpful. And if anyone has any suggestions for other Flash tutorials, I'm game as long as they fall within the bounds of what is doable. Shoot me a note or something if any of you guys can come up with other tutorials that would benefit new or existing users of the library.

[LouisD]

What a wonderful tutorial! Thank you for all the time you spent doing it for our benefit, it's very kind of you.

Kind regards

LouisD

[Jun Yamamoto]

Thank you very much for your very nice tutrial. It helps a lot.

X-Custom is a function I have waited and I believe it will increase data's portability.

FYI, using X-Custom, I found that, for from Vln 1 to Contrabass, KS SUS+Short, the sensitivity setting of the dynamics, either velocity or CC11, could not be saved. I think even they do not effect at all.

#Environment
Dell 8200 Pen 4, 2.2 GHz 2 GB RAM
Windows XP

I reported this to the support forum and already Mr. Tom Hopkins is kindly taking care of it.

Sincerely,

[Jonny Lost]

Joseph,

You are a tutorial writing monster. Very excellent, indeed.


Jonny

[Joseph Burrell]

Question to those that have seen this tutorial...

It has come to my attention that everyone is used to instruction tutorials rather than interactive. So my questions to you are as follows:

Was it hard to use?
Where the instructions clear?
Was it intuative (meaning did you know what to do)?
Would you like more of these type of tutorials?
Would you rather see the program do it without your interaction?

Any other responses would be helpful.

[Karl Garrett]

Joseph,

This is just awesome. You guys that have such command of web tools just amaze me. If one takes the time to read the instructions, it is very clear, and this kind of interaction tutorial is so hands on that I don't see how someone who is the least bit interested, can't learn and more important, remember.

Well done,

Karl

[belkina]

The main suggestion I have is: please add navigation buttons to go forward and back. I tried it on the Mac and could not get past the first screen.

Thanks for your hard work!

Alan


Question to those that have seen this tutorial...

It has come to my attention that everyone is used to instruction tutorials rather than interactive. So my questions to you are as follows:

Was it hard to use?
Where the instructions clear?
Was it intuative (meaning did you know what to do)?
Would you like more of these type of tutorials?
Would you rather see the program do it without your interaction?

Any other responses would be helpful.

[Joseph Burrell]

Can other Mac users confirm this? Alan, you are meant to physically interact with what's on screen. When you read what is displayed, you are meant to do what it is telling you to do. Are you doing this and it still isn't working? Adding navigation buttons defeats the purpose of what I was attempting to achieve.

[thesoundsmith]

Joseph, under Internet Explorer and OSX 10.2.8, it works fine. Under Safari, which I never use, there may be a 'stupid switch' somewhere that makes it work, but what I get is a vDeck error saying '404-Not found' Perhaps because it's a Flash page?

[belkina]

I understand that the tutorial might work best for beginners in an "interactive" mode, but I think there is no harm in having navigation buttons. I'm not a beginner, understand most of it already, but I thought I'd take the tour to see if I missed anything. Apart from the fact that it plain didn't work on my machine, I suspect there are other folks like me who would prefer to just give it a once-over-lightly.

Just my opinion ....

Alan


Can other Mac users confirm this? Alan, you are meant to physically interact with what's on screen. When you read what is displayed, you are meant to do what it is telling you to do. Are you doing this and it still isn't working? Adding navigation buttons defeats the purpose of what I was attempting to achieve.