How to put ringtones on your iPhone

A little known fact (at least it was to me until someone pointed it out) is that you can make anything you want into a ringtone for your iPhone. All you need is GarageBand '08 or '09 and iTunes, which, if you have a mac, you probably do. Not sure if there is a way to do this on a PC, so sorry about that. But here's how to do it on a mac:

1) Download the ringtone from here and unzip it.

2) Open GarageBand. Drag either the mp3 or wave (if there is one) into the big space in the window, creating a new track.

3) Click the cycle button. This is how you decide how long your ringtone will be.



4) Drag the edges of the cycle bar (in yellow) the beginning and end of the ringtone file. It won't let you ringtone-ify it without this step.




5) From the 'Share' Menu, choose 'Send Ringtone to iTunes'. And that's it! It will name it in iTunes whatever the GarageBand file is called, so you can rename it in iTunes to be more descriptive if you need to.



6) Sync your phone. Voila!

You can save this GarageBand file or not, it doesn't matter b/c now it is in your iTunes collection, and properly registered as a ringtone. I believe that internally it is really just an AAC file, but if you try it any other way, it will end up in your music collection, not your ringtones. Unless your phone is unlocked, but I don't know anything about that.

love fries

here is a french (actually belgian) frie-inspired ringtone, and a reminder to myself (and anyone else) that there is a new (to me, not to people who know it) fry place in town, off st. marks. Bonus is, not only can you get fries belgian style, you can also get poutine, fries Quebecquer style!!

Fantastic. I must go try it.

Just the mp3 file on this one, the wave is too big. It's a creeper tone--starts small, gets bigger, and then makes sure you hear it at the end.

k03FriesWithThat.mp3.zip

Dropping Stuff on the Floor

iPhone explanation to follow, but first some ringtones.

fx collection roulette is to thank for our first installment. An exploration of dropping things on the floor.

Posted as a zip files including wave and mp3 files. Enjoy.

k01MarbleDrop.zip

k02MarbleDropBare.zip

The Blog Sees New Life

Rather than start a 3rd blog with some other semi-clever barely-sensical epithet, I am going to resurrect this one, although with a slightly different purpose, one that I have been meaning to do for some time.

What could it be?

Inspired by my friend Dan's recent efforts and discipline, I have decided to finally realize my week long dream of making sound almost every day. The version of this 'a play a week' exercise for a sound designer seems to me to be:

Ringtones!

So, every few days, (I am going to be as disciplined about this as I can) I will post a ring tone or 2, that you can listen to, and if you like, download and use on your phone. I understand that most phones take mp3s, some take wave files, iPhones are a bit of a process (explanation to follow), so I will post them as waves and mp3s. The idea is that these all be the result of a bit of creating on my part, which should be fun, but also keep me working.

So, please participate, comment, download and make phone calls.

More to come.