This keeps on popping up, ringtones on 3thon and I have absolutely no idea what it’s about. If anyone can tell me what 3thon ringtones are I’d really appreciate it! In the meanwhile, I’ve fixed up the forum, it was all spammed out, so if you can’t find anything there, please register again and post your questions about ringtone production or about the other topics within the ringtone production forum.
I’ve loaded some A920 wallpapers into the forum wallpaper section. Check it out now and load some of your own! If you have the need for wallpapers in another size, just start a thread with ‘
wallpapers’ as subject.
I’m not sure why I haven’t come accross Media Convert before, but it’s a really, really cool tool, online with which you can create midis and convert your sound files to various ringtone formats – for free! Now before you go and convert entire song mp3′s, remember that it’s an online service, so larger files don’t work that well, except if you’re on broadband. Not only does it convert sound, it also allows for various conversions of documents, spreadsheets, video and more, plus it has a nifty WAP upload server for beaming directly to your phone! It’s almost too good to be true! But to test the mettle, I’m going to do this first midi tutorial on their midi sequencer. Yes, that’s right, they’ve got a free online midi sequencer. Simple, yet effective.
Now to start off with, open up the Media Convert link above (it’ll open a new window) and browse to the midi sequencer.
Just some setup information
The sequencer track has 16 notes. The 1st, 5th, 9th and 13th notes are your main beat steps. You can play around with offbeat high hats etc or make a 16 beat track by selecting the closed hi-hat and clicking all sequencing notes on to the right. I’ve chosen to make a 4 pattern loop, just using the first pattern (the default is 1,1,1,1 anyway).
Lets start
Now to get to instruments. Midi uses 128 standard instruments. On your phone it might sound a bit different since the tone generator is of a different variety than your computer, but essentially it’s still the same instruments.
Quick Tip: To save backups of your song, just click play (to effect changes) and then Download Song (the link will appear after you clicked play). My songs didn’t play online (think it’s quicktime that tried to take over), but I was able to download it and listen in Media Player.
Back to the Instrument Editor
Note: You’re working in octaves, so a higher octave will have a higher number.
That’s it! Your first midi sequence.
To elaborate and make different patterns, just copy the existing pattern to pattern 2 and change some of the notes. Usually you’d leave the drums the same, but here and there you can add a percussion shot or crash symbol. Enjoy playing around! You can download the midi loop sample I created on the Free Ringtone Download page.
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I’ve got a new upcoming tutorial on the cards on how to make your own midi ringtones. I’ll be using totally free software, so you’ll be able to replicate everything yourself. There are some really cool stuff you can do with midi, but it becomes technical quite quickly when you start doing advanced stuff. I’ll try and keep it simple though 
Maybe in future I’ll do a follow up tutorial for experienced users! Remember to register in the forum and I’ll send out a broadcast when the tutorial is up!
In this final article on the series of AMR production tutorials I’ll explain how to load ringtones onto your phone. There are various methods which will be discussed below.
I get allot of requests for a tutorial on how to edit midi files to reduce file size, channels etc so that you can use them as ringtones.
For those of you that want to find out how to set up BitPim with your Nokia cell phone, check out this link. It’s a nice tutorial with pictures.
What is YG24? Well it’s my term for the opposite of Parental Guidance (PG), named Youth Guidance and means only for under 24′s! Funny enough it was designed to repel teen troublemakers and the response has been phenominally opposite. The Wyvern Theatre in Wiltshire installed audio equipment to play the sound around their square at night to repel the troubled youths. Little did they know… The reason for this is because it is claimed that only young people can actually hear the ringtone, meaning that students and schoolgoers are using it in class because their lecturers can’t hear it!
I’ve had the phone now for a few weeks and have noticed a few things. The battery life is not good at all. I get 2 days max out of it. Maybe because there are so many cool features on it that use power!! Further I’ve started noticing that when I’m on the phone with someone it sometimes mutes the other person so I can’t hear what they’re saying. All in all still happy with the phone and have gotten some good compliments. That’s what funky cell phones are about right? A fashion accessory…
At long last the second tutorial in the AMR ringtone production series.
First of all, you’re going to need the following software. You need some kind of audio editor, in order to tweak volume and loop your ringtones properly. I’m using Sound Forge 7. Then you will need software to convert your tones to AMR format and I’m using Nokia Multimedia Converter 2 for that.