SynthMaker

Wiki Yuletide Appeal (make yourself feel good!)

Archive · 2009 3 old posts

From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.

trogluddite ·

In a recent post I pointed some people in the direction of a couple of very simple little additions I made to the Wiki - Now I feel all lovely and warm inside 😍 cos people posted back to say I'm a nice guy 😇 (Thanks). So here's my special Synthmaker Yuletide Appeal...

More people should get involved with the Wiki. When you sit down and try to explain something to someone else, it really makes it clear in your own mind - already I have taken my own advice for tidying up some projects that I stopped because they got out of hand. Helping with the Wiki will help you too.

I noticed that new forum users ask many of the same kind of questions (same as me when I started with SM) - but there is a lot of simple stuff that is not there in the documentation. It is too much work for a few people to do all of this - especially too much for the developers (we want them to have time for adding all the lovely features we want).

You don't have to be an genius assembly hacking geek to do this - new users don't want blinding with science - and some of the advice needed isn't SM specific anyway (e.g. Graphic design tips, understanding the maths, translations for non English users...)

EDIT: So if you think you know the answer to a problem on the forum - get it posted, then follow the thread through until there's a consensus about the correct answer. Then try to make sure that the info goes into the Wiki. This saves people having to scour hundreds of forums thread looking for the info they need, and should help avoid having lots of forum threads from new users all asking the same things.

(Thanks go to infuzion for setting me straight on a couple of points in my original unedited post)

The Luddite

Shalako ·

I am a huge wiki fan, I use one at work instead of having notes. This is another reason why people should post on the wiki, because once it's up there you have something to refer back to when y ou want to remeber how you created a particular module, at this point you say to yourself "I can;t rememer how I did that connection hmmmm I know I posted it on the wiki under a heading that I will easily recognise. Wow this is great not only do other people get to use the info I post but so do I!." In a thick chezzy accent that make poeple laugh when they here it and remeber the 'good ol' days went poeple didn't swaer on tv or in the movies but phsical violance was perfectly acceptable.....ok now I'm just rambling.

infuzion ·

Note: Please review the editing guides before posting to help with consistency. [old link] We're not Nazis about formatting, but it will help in the long-run. 🙂

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