Ding simulates church bell ringing, allowing you to practice on your own or to ring with a group of people via the internet. Beginners can use it to acquire ropesight because it is easier to ring by watching all of the ropes, rather than focusing on one rope. Experts can use it to practice a method before ringing it in the tower.On signing in you can join an existing tower or create a new tower, or choose Solo mode if you dont want to ring with other people.The Ringing Chamber features views over "Superlative Island". The bells are rung by randomly selected avatars; there is an alternative mode for Ropes Only if you find your phone isnt powerful enough for the avatars.The ropes are displayed with red sallies; the bell you are ringing has a deeper red sally, and no avatar; and the treble has a blue sally (unless you are ringing it). To ring your bell on a touchscreen, there is a slider that you can move right and left for handstroke and backstroke. (Tip: keep your finger on the slider, dont lift it off the screen between strokes). If you have a keyboard or external mouse connected there are other options to ring your bell."Bob" is an automated ringer who can ring as many bells as you wish. This enables you to ring things that would be impossible in the tower due to a lack of sufficient ringers or bells! When you create a tower, at startup you are assigned the treble of six bells, and Bob rings the other bells. One of the pages that you can swipe to allows you to choose the method that Bob will ring.The Viewpoint tab on the left allows you to adjust your position to that you have the best view possible of all the other ropes.The Conductor has access to a page for allocating the ringers to their bells. If you created the tower then you are conductor until you assign it to another ringer.Another option available uses the mats instead of ropes. In this mode the bell sounds immediately when you ring it, so it resembles handbell ringing more than tower bell ringing. A Ringalong option allows you to join in with your bands ringing even when you havent been allocated a rope. You can choose any bell you want, and Ding will show it with a purple sally. You can then ring as if you were really a member of the band - your copy of Ding will ignore the person who is really ringing, and substitute you.
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