(Patton Oswalt voice) ... Steinberg, do, do you not know what "tutorials" are?

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So I thought I’d take Spectral Layers 12 out for a test as it might be helpful with some old tracks I wanted to fix.

So activated the trial and thought, ok, I’ll find some tutorials to get started.

All I found was marketing-focused videos and stuff from other companies, and even then, they aren’t tutorials. just people talking about the program.

A Tutorial should walk a user through a project (it would involve some mixed track that a learner could download and work on). Step by step.

This is such basic, 101-level stuff. It’s really weird.

Sometimes I feel like SB are space aliens or something.

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Thank you. I did see those (this is a situation that has existed for a long time across most of their products). Those aren’t tutorials. They are marketing-focused feature demos.

Perhaps most people don’t know what tutorials are? That would explain a lot.

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I am with you, @noise .

Most of Steinberg’s products lack decent manuals, documentation, release notes and tutorials.
I’ve been there myself (one time too many) and it’s something Steinberg needs to look at. If documentation and an intuitive GUI could get anywhere near the brilliance and power of the products itself then we’d be golden!

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I think the yearly releases must make it hard to have good documentation and tutorials (one of the reasons I’m against the new release schedule, but I guess it helps with revenue.)

I’m still on CB12 and constantly finding out new features.

I miss the printed manuals from old. I actually read them from cover to cover!

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On this very page, it is also said “You’re new to the world of music production and could use some more information to jumpstart your creative journey. Then you’ve come to the right spot!” That’s not exactly what anybody would call product documentation. And before anyone directs me to steinberg.help - I’ve been there and it is of no actual use.

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Yes, I think that’s indeed very difficult to keep up. Moreover, it’s a Hercules task to do an overhaul of their long-existiting manuals which seem like a relict of past times. As a result, it’s still up to the user to gather little bits of information here and there to get the full picture.

Nobody knows what’s going on behind the scenes. It would be nice to know if they even see these deficits and the need for improvements. The Dorico team is living proof that things can be done differently and that it’s beneficial for everyone.

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I too miss the printed manuals.

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The veritable plethora of instructional youtube vids, while not replacing a great manual, makes it easy to get most questions answered. Maybe that’s one of the reasons Steinberg has apparently chosen to not devote limited resources to creating (and maintaining) a good (if not great) Cubase manual.

TBH, even in its heyday, the manual wasn’t something I’d write home about!

Two manuals I’d hold up as good to excellent: SynchroArts’ Revoice Pro, and (as of the last time I checked, which has been a while) Steinberg’s own SpectraLayers (embedded vids, IIRC!).