I agree some people here can be condescending, down right rude and high horsed. I have come across it myself. But some of us OLDIES don’t like reading PDFs. I have two paperback books and am reading them from front to back an d front again and it doesn’t help that the person who writ the book (pun intended for any Dick John and Harry’s out there) has not used the same picture that you are looking at on screen. Same goes for the Cubase 9 Pro and Halion 6 and Sonic 3 manuals. But something that I was looking for last week and it wracked my brains as to where to find it looking at the online manual. what I did find I wasn’t convinced that it was the correct part of the software. Today I found and lost what I had learned last week. C’est la vie! Anyways the point I am making is the online manual is very lax and lacking any direction. IF you want to make a cut down version of the manual for quick reference all fine and good but don’t get it down to the point where the substance if what was meant to be imparted to someone is lost. Also I spotted a glaring error in that the picture in one part of the manual was not from version 9 but a slightly older version.
I have written manuals myself and I wrote them to make the user understand what the point is, how to use and end result. I do it in such a way that the end user doesn’t have to come back to me. Now I wrote manuals for complicated databases. Where someone at the company who writes the software understands it and knows what the logic is not everyone is going to. Developers and code writers forget the audience they have in front of them. If you through a load of code at someone they will run a mile but if you have 1 Setting up your connections to CB X Pro From the File new>something or other>something or other then the person learning will be able to get to xyz a lot quicker. If the waffle is cut down to the minimum.
My only gripe with the Cubase 9 Pro is someone who wrote the manual didn’t necessarily wrote it in English in the first place as their is some really bad English in it as with Halion 6. (I used an example or their in stead if there!). I cant say much more on this as I am struggling still six versions on from Cubase 6. I gave up asking questions after the grief it gave me. But the people who give grief have to think “I was there once lets help out” however simple the question.
Try and find a useful template online and you will be inundated with people who will write you one for $150 per hour. But it is of no use if it doesn’t have the settings of lets say a realistic oboe. How do you do that with the basic sounds that HSO has? You have paid someone or doing what you could have done yourself playing about. I actually downloaded one of the supposedly $150 ph templates to find what was in front of me was no different to what you can chuck out of CB9 anyway. I didn’t pay $150 by the way. It didn’t have any VST parts just AUDIO not even midi.
In respect of one of your questions although it might have seemed too easy to some, new comers might find that they are not seeing for the first time what is in the manual. A quick note to a forum one would have expected someone to say you see here etc… if you do this you will get this. That’s how it works with other software I have dealt with, TROLLS were most certainly booted out f those forums.