Richard R

Take a look at an app called Acapella. The first band member records the lead part as a video on their phone, then the others play along individually and record their parts in the app. When tbeybare done the app stitches it together, you can apply a bit of basic eq and pan, and then download and share the video. It's not a Trevor Horn mix, but OK for what it is, fun for practicing, and you can keep posting for your followers.

Well that was entertaining. A few technical issues, but the basic principle of meeting over VC is sound, and people seem to want to do it again. Tech Notes: - Teams only lets you see four people on screen. Not a major problem, Skype does the same, but requires a bit of management of the meeting Users should change their name as displayed in their profile settings, otherwise it picks up the first part of their email address. Having a Microsoft account is a prerequisite. Again not a major problem but it wasn't made clear Cameras vary in quality, but all are better than mine. My phone was better than my PC, and actually wasn't a bad experience to join on Audio was OK, and it is possible to DI a bass into the audio. Everyone has to explicitly hang up to end the meeting. Tech Question: Do we want to try this over Skype as an alternative? Other Notes: Only @nickmew had wine, which made the rest of us terribly jealous @jebroad's mini bass is even smaller in real life than it appears in photographs. Tom's african build 2 is going to be fab! Fan frets are clearly in this year I'm happy to organise another one, with an open invitation to all members. In which case I think we would have a more specific agenda. I'm happy to have another test run with Skype if we think more people will readilly have that and therefore the startup time is reduced. (Zoom isn't an option if I'm organising, it's invasive and insecure) Honest comments please:

Yep! Everyone has to explicitly hang up, or the meeting continues. Apparently the feature for the organiser to kill it is due out real soon.

Still showing as running with you in 🤔

@Andyjr1515 - you still seem to be in the meeting. Can you hang up?

Any joy?

You should just be able to sign in to MS teams with the email you gave me, because you are part of my organisation.

Have you got MS Teams on the android

Open and log into Teams, and I'll include you on the meeting

Microsoft Teams

Andy is in. Anyone else joining.

OK all. So if you open teams and join with the account we set up then you'll be in. I will then call everyone using Teams abut 8pm, but if you're not running the app you won't get the call. So, to make a terrible analogy, you have to walk in the door of the hall, and then I'll call us to order on VC. 🙂 @Oldman, I'm not sure what TeamViewer is, is it another name for the Teams App? If so then you should be able to see and post to the "General" chat now

Definitely ON! @Len_derby, you do need a Microsoft account, but you can set one up with any email address. If you use the one you sent all will be good. I will be in from about 7:50 Rich

Hmmmm. The email address is right. I'm not familiar enough with Apple to be sure. Are you logging into the Apple Business store at this point in order to download the app? You just need to download from the normal Apple store it just like any other app, using your AppleID. When it's on the machine then you can log into the team I've set up. I have an old iPad I can test on. But it's at church as the remote control for the mixing desk so I will have to class walking down to get it as my exercise tomorrow as it's hardly an essential journey. Low risk though given that the church will be empty.

Most likely I fat-fingered your email address. I'll check when I am at a PC.

Not at all. The teams client works fine on Wintel, MacOS, iOS, Android and Linux 🙂

So far we have: @Bassman Sam, @Andyjr1515, @Len_derby, and I hope still @jebroad & @ped Added @Oldman and @nickmew Added another +1 who isn't (yet) on BC Time confirmed at 8PM THIS FRIDAY (whatever date that is 😄 ) Start up and log into Teams with the email address a few minutes before and I'll kick off the call when most people are in. Cheers, Rich

I like the little MOP arc at the top. Shame the arrow points down rather than up,

Teams will optimise quality depending on the bandwidth available, the wider the pipe the higher the quality video it will use to that endpoint. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/prepare-network) Group video calling (540p videos on 1080p screen) is 1.1Mbps/2Mbps. So worth a try. @SpondonBassed was concerned about breaching a data limit than the transfer speed.

D'OH! Friday 3rd APRIL at 8pm.

My daughter's 1.5 hour Teams session used 897MB according to the Win10 Networkd stats. So not as much as expected, but not insignificant

So far we have: @Bassman Sam, @Andyjr1515, @Len_derby, and I hope still @jebroad & @ped Added @Oldman and @nickmew How does Friday 3rd March at 8pm work for people? Rich

Big Fun - to drown out Coronation Street. Why would listening to Miles Davis make one a snob?

I think it's about 1.5GB/hour or a bit more. I'll see if I can measure usage in a real conference tomorrow, and post here.

TESTERS REQUIRED for a Virtual Bass Bash So far we have: @Bassman Sam, @Andyjr1515, @Len_derby, and I hope still @jebroad & @ped @Oldman - PM me with an email address A few more would be good. Currently no preferences for Friday or Saturday, so probably Friday. Rich