Marcel Schoeber: Please re-send your email re "Skype" to me again. It got deleted by accident before I was able to open & read it. Thanks - Scott

I've tried Skype some time ago, but for overseas connections, the sound sometimes goes in and out, just like MSN. It does allow for bigger files to be send though.

But for a "quality" conversation with Europe, I use http://www.1010987.com now. It's simple, fast and cheap at 3 cents a minute and it just ends up on your regular phone bill, no hassle.

John

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I just had a chat with Scott on Skype, for the first time: the sound quality was amazing (it sounded like we were in the same room). We were even able to jam together on our keyboards, trading parts on a few songs, without noticeable sound delays.
All I can say is: what a wonderful time we are living in!

Had a terrific voice & music making (jam session) with Andrea Rotolo (Dreamer) today via live internet telephone: from San Francisco Bay Area, CA to Rome, Italy.

The audio quality was simply AMAZING. We both have DSL/Cable computer connections, so there was absoulutely no audio latency, dropouts, or echo. We could even talk concurrently (at the same time) without the other person's voice dropping out. The audio quality is actually far better than my regular telephone sounds, talking to someone living down the street.

Andrea had visited me (and played music together with me) here in Berkeley a couple of years back so the Skype 'PC to PC' internet voice connection felt like the next best thing to jamming LIVE together. With headphones & mics, we spent a wonderful hour jamming (with our keyboards) and me singing too (with my voice finally back in decent form), on tunes (from Jobim to classic jazz standards). It was fun to call up tunes to each other on the fly, and play together: Tyros to Tyros, muting the auto accomp parts except for drums & bass, and playing in all other parts live.

Thanks to Skpe internet for making this 'across the globe' LIVE interactive music making possible. Because of the impressive sound quality and no more of the audio latency & dropouts of the past, it's now finally a reality to be able to make musc LIVE with ANYONE anywhere across the globe, and it's TOTALLY FREE to boot. I'm in heaven. I again encourage others to check Skype out. This revolutionizing music making possibilities. Anyone else want to play?

Scott

This happens because Skype does not use the same networks as MSN/other communication software. It uses p2p (peer-to-peer) networks [the ones used in Kazaa, for example] and they seem to allow amazing quality standards (particularly good because of rare or in many cases inexistant interruptions). I have been using it to keep in contact with friends in the USA and Canada (fixed phone, not PC-to-PC) at much lower rates than the ones practiced by the companies operating in my country (unfortunately the fixed phones market is in practice a monopoly, in POrtugal, preventing the prices of communications to be lower).

New forms of collaboration over broadband internet are one of hottest and most promising fields in this moment. Stay tuned in the progresses we will see in a near future!

Those interested in voice over internet might like to read this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4254399.stm

-- José.

Hi Guys,

My Skype username is bluenote_x , if you want to, you can add me to your list .
Thanks,

Greetz ,
Marcel

It was a lot of fun chatting with Wazza (Netherlands), Shakeel Ahmed (Pakistan), and RichUK (Portsmouth GB, UK) on Skype today. What amazed me was even though Ahmed was on a slow dialup line (32k), the quality of our conversation was still half way decent, and with no (or very little) audio delay. With DSL/Cable, speaking to the others, the audio quality was fanstastic & with no voice delay or echo whatsoever.

Ok, here's (I think) the best way to configure Skype with your keyboard & mic for keyboard jamming & singing LIVE via Skype. If your keyboard includes a mic input (as most arrangers which include a built in vocalizer do), simply plug your mic into your keyboard, and send your keyboard L/R output into your PCs LINE IN jacks on your PC's sound card. You'll probably need a Y cable to convert the two 1/4" (L/R) audio outputs of your keyboard to the 1/8" stereo mini jack input (LINE IN) on your computer's soundcard. Once this is hooked up, all you need to do is don a pair of headphones & plug into the audio out (headphone jack) of your soundcard. You will then be able to voice chat thru the vocal mic plugged into your keyboard, and play your keyboard, with both parties concurrently playing (and singing) & heard concurrently. It's would even be possible (I think) to record the LIVE jam performances via audio recording software (Sonar, Total Recorder, etc) though I'm not exactly sure exactly how to set this up. Any recommendations?

Ok folks, my Skype username is: scottyee

Look forward to meeting, chatting, and possibly even jamming together LIVE on Skype with fellow Synthzone members soon. Email me to set up a Skype chat session.

Scott

This might interest you, it connects regular telephones to Skype
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Reviews-192-ProdID-UP101.php

It was great to meet you today Scott !!
The quality is amazing and the latency is minimal....much better than Buddyphone a few years ago.

As you were in my room sitting next to me : Bright crispy sound... from your Webcam-mike.

My skypename is 'RoeldeJonge' (Dutch, English, German)

Scott I have a question:
With my set up at home I don't have a sound card in my computer I have a Delta M 44 audio set up. This allows me to record vocals into my Sonar program which I'm sure you already understand.
A regular headset w/mic doesn't work with my set up. Here's the question: is there something else I can use to talk and listen with Skype?

Thanks.

Peter