Mobile Communications Symphony: Making Ringtones

posted by Catt Mallen
Friday, December 25, 2009

Besides the fact that handset phones are portable, they have one distinct feature that sets them apart from plain telephones: the feature that allows most of its parts to be changed or customized. Customization provides a headstart in that you don’t always need to publicly announce that something is yours. Research in our current micro-technology have made it possible to have an almost infinite number of customizations possible on handset phones. If you’re thinking up of a good customization for your mobile phones, I can suggest that you make ringtones to further personalize your phone.

Ringtones are primarily used (for those who are not from planet Earth) as an alert tone for a cellular mobile phone for different kinds of alerts, like call alerts, message alerts, e-mail alerts, and even security alerts! The signature sound that ringtones have is very different from the conventional irritating ringing sounds of legendary telephones, giving catchy tunes, melodies that you can serenely listen to (don’t forget to answer the phone), and even non-musical sounds like sounds of nature and the human voice.

Ringtones are made quite easily nowadays, thanks to the various ringtone editing programs that are accessible through most of the 2nd generation mobile phone models. However, a little musical talent may be necessary to create music properly.

Since the advent of the polyphonic ringtones and beyond, creating ringtones has now evolved from the basic 8-bit and 16-bit sounds to a melody that can now include more than one instrument, adding richness and detail to each note that emanates from the creative works of musical art. And music as it is, even I sometimes have trouble answering a phone call when one of these melodious tunes comes up (I still refuse to change my ringtone though).

Editing a ringtone for mobile phone use can now be done in PC’s, allowing for a more sophisticated ringtone editing by applications and programs that any mobile phone application cannot perfectly provide. In addition, the depth that is added to these music is so complex, that it is now officially indistinguishable from music composed (save for some technos and some playing speed and combinations that are quite impossible for the human hands to do) using actual instruments. A short warning though, any attempt of a pure novice beginner with no knowledge about music composition to create a ringtone, would most likely be met by utter letdown to the more superior and experienced composers out there.

Nonetheless, the luxury of your phone standing out among the rest is what makes ringtones very important for your mobile phone, keeping the signature in your cellular phone yours and yours alone.



4 Responses to “Mobile Communications Symphony: Making Ringtones”

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  3. Gregory Despain says:

    Many thanks for the informative post

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