LightSoundJournal.com: Education has been a pillar program of Meyer Sound for decades. Today’s current circumstances called for a shift from in-person seminars to virtual classrooms. Due to overwhelming response to an initial daily offering of online training content the past few weeks, the Meyer Sound education team has launched a comprehensive webinar program that started Tuesday, April 14.
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With many people stuck indoors with little to do, many software companies are creating free tutorials on how to use their products, as well as offering the products for free for a limited time. Meyer Sound seems to be no exception. What is interesting about Meyer Sound's approach to the tutorials, is that they are frequent and are in two different languages. Classes in English are on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Spanish classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The tutorials offer in depth looks at many of Meyer Sound's software and services that they offer. The first one that I saw on their YouTube channel that archives all of the classes, was one about how to use MAPP XT, their sound design software. Many of the classes are about 90 minutes. But they are very well taught and very interesting to those who wish to learn the software. I wonder what other tutorials there are from other companies.
The way that software companies have been reacting to the Covid-19 pandemic has actually been so inspiring. I can see that this is really great advertising for them because it gives people a long “free trial” in a sense for their products and then draws people into wanting to buy their programs in the future. I, for one, signed up for a Vectorworks seminar that is traditionally $150 and they were offering it free for a limited time. It teaches you the entire program from basic tools all the way into 3D modeling, to a final deliverable. These companies like Meyer are so smart because people are going to get hooked on their products and realize how helpful they are and probably end up buying them later on. I’m excited to start my Vectorworks seminar and will probably try a number of others as well. It is definitely a fun thing to do when you have nothing else.
This is cool. I've seen a lot of leadership from lighting companies regarding online education during the pandemic, but for some reason I haven't seen a lot from sound companies yet. A few softwares have been made free, such as Qlab, but really robust training and education seems to have been slower to get going than for a lot of lighting groups. I'm encouraged that Meyer is doing this, though, and especially that they are doing it as thoughtfully as it sounds. I'm not sure if I'll be able to go to many of these, but I hope they will keep recordings of them online. I would definitely be interested in exploring these over the summer. I also hope that other companies follow suit, if they haven't already. Sound has a pretty steep learning curve and some areas can be pretty opaque for those that haven't been able to devote hours on hours to learning and tweaking, and if the learning infrastructure can be worked out and made available, there's a potential that a lot of people could use this as an opportunity to dig into those corners where their knowledge is a little more limited.
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