Hello again on the manuals topic. Very good opinions were written to the lists, and I had to write this summary on why the manuals are needed. 1. Historically important. If one collects the manuals today, he does not have to search them with cats and dogs later. 2. Good for finding out the latest in industry. 3. Good for learning about audio and effects processing. Very good documentation can be found, indeed. 4. Good for getting ideas for open source software. 5. Good for writing documentation for other software. 6. Good for making comparison charts. I actually started this job a few weeks ago as somebody in Audacity list started writing his comparison chart. We also had a discussion how transport buttons should be arranged: a quick look at a few manuals revealed much. 7. Good to read before purchasing an expensive software. 8. Your favourite musicians are using the software. Well, I asked Logic Audio manuals also because Boris Blank of Yello has used Logic Audio products since Notator/Creator times. This is the same reason why I asked Euphonix to send me their System 5 manual -- I got it. This is the same reason why I have also asked Fairlight to digitize their Series II and III manuals and place them available. (BTW, I also suggested them to release a Series II and III software synth with the original samples. Got no reply, sad.) OK. I have collected urls of software manuals, at "http://www.funet.fi/~kouhia/commercials.html";, but that list is already four years old. It does not contain findings done since and documented to my private notes. I would like to learn more about the "sharing networks" as that seems to be the only way to get the manuals. Best regards, Juhana
