Re: Page 400!!! - Maybe time to stop...
Hi Dan,
Totally respect to you and to everybody that is more (than me) actively contributing to the thread.
There are anyway some recurrent topics that could be easily extracted from the general discussion:
- hardware issues, and evolution over time
- X32 setups / configurations / issues
- rumors and future versions (V 2.0?)
- recording and demos with X32
- cabling/networking
- PC/Mac compatibility
- firmware/card upgrades
- Software (x32-edit - X32-mix)
etc...
It would require some discipline from users and would filter out some background noise.
I find rather hard to sort out a search criterium in the forum to get the exact post I remember I read 4 months ago and was useful to remember or review.
If I had the privileges I'd just create new posts and move the posts to specific threads. Let's say, based on the title of the post, to start with. A task that can be done over time without anything big in mind like "create the omni-comprehensive X32 FAQ" that would be quite a task.
Anyway I'm a minority so after another couple of cents of contribution, I'm broke and I'll shut up until I have something more interesting to say.
thx
Cesare
Hi Cesare,
I am enjoying reading your suggestions, even though I disagree; my disagreement does not make your feelings less valid, and is certainly no reason for you to shut up. *
While you're right that topics could be extracted and put into specific threads, doing so would mean that those not specifically looking for an answer but who are always open to learning something new would need to look through many separate threads each day (you named seven already, and there are many, many more possibilities with a product that is so complex and has many, many facets to its use). Unless there was a separate forum altogether with only X32 threads, a user would have to filter through all the threads with newer posts that are completely unrelated to the X32.
I won't deny that the subject of "Live Audio" is very wide and deep and none of us knows all of it and each of us could stand to learn new things. But speaking only for myself and sharing my opinion just as you have shared yours, I like going to one place each day and seeing what the group's attention is on today.
Where I absolutely agree with you is that the information ITTcould be better organized, but absent someone with the privileges you suggest and the time to do a thorough job of it, that won't happen and can't happen.
Per has proposed there be a Wiki user manual, and my suggestion (and offer to help organize and do) was that this thread should be mined for information and pasted onto the bones of a Wiki outline. That way the information here is not deleted/changed/altered so that the source is findable, but is extracted and pasted with attribution and URL info in the Wiki so that someone using the Wiki can have an organized summary (with as much detail as possible), but also be able to go here and find the context in which the info has been presented.
Also, the huge task of taking 8100+ posts and organizing the info can be divided easily among interested people; for example, you take pages 101-105 (in the now 404 page view, so there's 20 posts per page) and add interesting bits to the Wiki.
I predict that out of 100 posts, there will be 20 or 30 or 40 that are saying something new and worth saving for posterity, so that task wouldn't be huge in and of itself. It does not take long to copy and paste 40 posts; it will take slightly longer if they each need to be edited to only reflect one topic that will fit into an outline.
I've justified my lack of action on this project with the belief that the outline has to come first, and that one guy needs to do it. I've been busy lately, anyway, and suspect he is, too.........
Having more than one person working on it, though, means the other one can bug the first one to get something done.
That's enough typing for now, we have shared our thoughts.
Best wishes,
Dan
*I won't mention that my status as X32 Thread VIP does not make my opinion any more important IMHO. Or correct.
PS We need to get off this page 404. I'm weirded out when I catch the tab out of the corner of my eye and think it's going to say "Not Found".
