I don’t think anyone relies exclusively on either vids of manuals. When you are learning, lots of small steps get missed. I can watch another user with md perform on youtube and now understand which pages they are using ect. As a fresh beginner it wasn’t obvious. Even after reading the manual.
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I’ll be honest. The I read the MD manual a bunch of times particularly with respect to the sampler and it did not click until I watched a youtube vid. (A few) Congrats to anyone who managed it on the 1st try.
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By “team” you mean “me” right? 
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lol … tbh i have to wonder, did anyone really see Elvis? I’m guessing they did. Once in 2009 i thought the loading screen looked different, although when i went to look closer everything was ready to play. Didn’t quite catch a glimpse. Could have been the lighting in the room at the time. So … yeah. It could have just been a legend or something made up by a bunch of e-u crew wanting to mess with people’s perception, perhaps?
There is no “i” in thyme
lol re/ bold, and yes…
although i’m guessing some of the beta-testers may offer some valuable insight and/or input.
Back to topic … has anyone really seen Elvis on the Machinedrum loading screen?
I like to print manuals (if they are not included) and read them in my commute to work while sitting in the bus 
Another reason why I hate driving: you can’t do other stuff.
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I love reading manuals and I keep them even after selling the machine it was written for. Got a few in the bathroom as well. Whats not to love, they are books about my favorite devices.
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I read manuals all the time, and moreover I often read manual before buying the machine. That way I don’t have surprise and I am ready to go when the machine is at home.
I remember when I bought my ultranova, I asked the vendor to show me the manual, I stayed in the shop reading the manual, and finally I’ve tested the synth knowing how to use it, and bought it cause I was satisfied.
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I love reading manuals. They are the most effective way for me to understand what the gear can do and to tell if it will fit in our setup. Youtube is well suited for some things, since you can hear sound as things are explained, but since I can’t control the pacing of info I quickly gets distracted.
Besides music, another passion of mine is playing boardgames. Typically wargames, some of which have 100+ pages of rules. So manuals and rulebooks take up a significant chunk of my spare time! Sometimes I worry all this “technical” reading might be unhealthy. 
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Always nice to find a hardcopy manual in the box. About to re-read the OT one after a long break from it Remember ‘most’ of it but seems some basic stuff has vanished from my brain…
I still ask Q’s on forums tho, sometimes easier/faster or I need help understanding/translating 
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I’m a big fan of seeing how far I can get on my own without reading the manual. Takes me back to the days of having no manuals and no internet when learning 2nd hand gear. I do eventually read them though.
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I agree to this … videos can be helpful, but they can not replace a well structured and well written manual … at least not for me
I know a few video episodes, which have been very helpful to me. They have been focused on a single feature, lenght about 4 - 6 minutes. If there was more to tell, the author had splitted up his work into several videos in a series (in thise sense, the videos of Make-Noise are excellent).
I have tried to learn from videos of 45 to 60 minutes length, where the author took much time to explain and went step by step demonstrating various features, but this was not for me. For me it’s more efficient to focus on a single feature and get my head around by direclty trying it myself after having read the section in the manual or having watched a short video .
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Haha, i’ve got them on my phone too ^^
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iPad & Elektron manual & 11pm & work next day:
“…make sure you are in grid recording mode… zzz… trig the trigless trig… zzz… else the trig condition of the regular trig… zzzz… will trig (mini snore) a trigless tri…zzzzzzzzzzzzzz” goodnight.
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Is it even possible for an elektron newcomer to use the OT without reading the manual? I read it twice before buying and many times since, especially when i use “an area” for the first time. I believe that except for the pickup machine, I used everything by now
But i enjoy reading gear manuals for some reason.
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I always miss the lovely ring bound Monomachine manual every time I have to download a Rytm or A4 PDF. One day I’ll go get them printed and bound too
Hehehe, yeah, well having a cub really cuts into music time 
About people who don’t read manuals and come to forums or facebook to ask basic stuff:
Why on earth they will wait for an answer for some hours instead of opening the manual and solve the issue themselves?
Seems like a total waste of time to me.
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I don’t recall ever seeing any user asking for a manual to be replaced with a video, but maybe I just missed it. If they did, I certainly wouldn’t understand that way of thinking.
But I do feel a modern tech-based company should have a few complimentary ways of dispersing information about their products to users. Print, PDF, written blog tutorials, videos, etc. Each has it’s own purpose, strengths, weaknesses.
I really wish Elektron would get back to making great little tutorial videos and have begged them to do so. They seem to stop/start this randomly over the years. Not for comprehensive step by step explanation of detailed things that would be best left to a manual, of course. If you want to know what Button C does, look it up in two seconds, not wade through a 10 minute video.
Video seems like more of a way to learn certain techniques and workflow. It’s nice to be able to look over someone’s shoulder and watch how they accomplish a particular task, how they get a certain sound, etc. Those Cenk workflow videos were cool. I wish they’d do more!