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2004-12-06 Talk

JeffSturges:
I’m wondering if we might be able to connect with some other folks from farther around the world (Asia, Middle East, South America, Australia etc.). I’m going to start randomly Skyping people in those areas to probe for more musicians and refer them to our wiki. Seems rather annoying and inefficient, like door-to-door sales, but then again, that’s how I’ve met a lot of people on Skype…from them calling me randomly. Maybe I’ll also post another forum entry on the Skype site. Any ideas on how to connect with other folks outside of the Western world?

Also, Mattis, if you get a chance, could you perhaps juggle the text around a bit and note the movements so that we might see an example of how to organize posts? To me, it seems that we should be putting the answers to questions right underneath them, and posting new information as you say, from least to most recent. But then again, whatever works for everyone works for me. Since most of us are new to wikis, I’d like to see the proper “protocol”.

KC:
Pretty simple really. I recorded my remote Skype guitarist (who we shall call Kevin) by taking his signal from the line-out of the sound card into channel 1 of a recording device and my signal was fed directly into channel 2 and a monitor output provided the signal that was sent via the sound card line-input and Skyped out to Kevin. Switch on tape recorder and channels 1 and 2 get recorded separately. We can hear each other because we didn’t suppress echos. If you do as soon as you start playing you can’t hear the other person. Wearing headphones helps but with the speakers on the echo sounds pretty good anyway! – sign

In case you were wondering, no I haven’t managed to record us separately on the PC yet.

Who fancies a global Skype jam, any sound making devices, max five people to test it out (as Jeff suggests below). Perhaps put your availability below. Put down GMT times if poss bearing in mind time differences?? And your Skype address if I don’t know it….

AVAILABILITY FOR JAM TESTING

Jeff: after Dec 13th, almost anytime, day or night ::JeffSturges

Dave: weekends best, and some evenings 1700hrs GMT to 2300hrs – sign

MattisManzel:
Great, push it forwards. I’m most delighted that you use the wiki. I recommend adding new stuff at the end of the date entry. Finishing with – YourNamepage?. Then you see who wrote what. Going on in a continuing disscussion needs no new date entry. It saves us a lot of scrolling and on the end we can put archive pages when the page gets too long. Looks like Alex is going to care for oddwiki and we will get a lot of new features activated for this wiki. Would you like avatars like we have them on http://www.emacswiki.org/cw/DenotingAuthor ? Timestamp hovering over the pic.

JeffSturges:
Here’s some possibly useful links…the ideas are similar, though the methods and execution are a bit different. Share is a weekly party at a club in New York City were everyone gets together and jams via electronic instruments. However, I believe they have done some live, multi-participant offsite jams as well. OpenSoundControl is a link off of the Share site that lists some useful software programs and also links to artists that have been experimenting with similar ideas… Enjoy!

Hey Dave, I’ve done a 5 participant conference with Skype. Actually, I’m doing one right now at my school in 5 different departments, to see if people will begin to interact with one another with a sort of ambient sound feed. I leave it on all day…It doesn’t seem to be a problem, and all the computers can handle it (most are 500-850 MHz w/ 128-256 RAM) however, I am having difficulty with feedback and the echo stopper function that you described. I am using pretty chinzy computer speakers and computer mics though…but usually everyone can speak at once. I will be out of town until next Mon, Dec 13th, but perhaps we could coordinate a “sloppy test” sometime then? Maybe just to get an idea if we can play with 5 people, judge the delay, check the sound, test mics, headphones, speakers, etc.?