100% what Bogdan said; a lot of people won't know *where* to look in the manual, so even a reply of "look here on page xxx of the manual" is quite useful!
Also, fwiw? The only time I recall absolutely needing a user manual (outside of Korg PA series) was the Roland Juno-G (which was *so* convoluted and non-intuitive, that when I asked the Roland reps to walk me through creating a song, *none* of them could do it either (not even their keyboard specialist), and a 'quick start guide' for the Juno-G followed 3 months after... it was ironically *thick*.
252 pages. For a "quick start" guide.
Turned out the issue was, unlike an arranger (where everything always starts out blank) or most rompler workstations (you grab an empty song slot); on the Juno G you *had* to overwrite an existing demo song in order to record anything :p Which is why the 'obvious' press "Rec" didn't work...
Also for some of those P series and YDP (and CLP's without screens, as well as other brands like Casio PXS series) you have to hold down the function button, and each key represents a function; sometimes need to lookup the lookup table to see which key is transpose, speaker on/off, etc. But I don't *need* the manual there, I could keep pressing keys until I find the function I'm looking for. It's just faster.
But other than that? I never open manuals. I've yet to open the manual for my sx970 (it's still sealed) or any Tyros/Genos (except Tyros 2, when I was creating custom voices from samples) or any Triton/Kronos. Intuitive enough that I've just never had to (the PA5x/Pa4x/PA3x on the other hand, using what's "intuitive", I kept running into dead ends. Plus the manual often becomes obsolete with major OS updates :p
Also, fwiw? The only time I recall absolutely needing a user manual (outside of Korg PA series) was the Roland Juno-G (which was *so* convoluted and non-intuitive, that when I asked the Roland reps to walk me through creating a song, *none* of them could do it either (not even their keyboard specialist), and a 'quick start guide' for the Juno-G followed 3 months after... it was ironically *thick*.
252 pages. For a "quick start" guide.
Turned out the issue was, unlike an arranger (where everything always starts out blank) or most rompler workstations (you grab an empty song slot); on the Juno G you *had* to overwrite an existing demo song in order to record anything :p Which is why the 'obvious' press "Rec" didn't work...
Also for some of those P series and YDP (and CLP's without screens, as well as other brands like Casio PXS series) you have to hold down the function button, and each key represents a function; sometimes need to lookup the lookup table to see which key is transpose, speaker on/off, etc. But I don't *need* the manual there, I could keep pressing keys until I find the function I'm looking for. It's just faster.
But other than that? I never open manuals. I've yet to open the manual for my sx970 (it's still sealed) or any Tyros/Genos (except Tyros 2, when I was creating custom voices from samples) or any Triton/Kronos. Intuitive enough that I've just never had to (the PA5x/Pa4x/PA3x on the other hand, using what's "intuitive", I kept running into dead ends. Plus the manual often becomes obsolete with major OS updates :p
Statistics: Posted by amwilburn — Mon Jun 30, 2025 7:20 pm