[PlanetCCRMA] Re: Re: selfmade ringingtones (Brad Fuller)

[jan hendrik brueggemeier]

hi,

thanks for your quick responses and please apologize my delayed answering. i am still stucked in 
the preparation, but i will keep you updated, if i can make any progress on this topic.

thanks!!

jan

>    4. selfmade ringingtones (jan hendrik brueggemeier)
>    5. Re: selfmade ringingtones (Louis van Dompselaar)
>    6. Re: selfmade ringingtones (Brad Fuller)
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> Message: 4
> Date: 7 May 2005 13:26:28 -0000
> From: "jan hendrik brueggemeier" <jan at pingfm.org>
> To: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] selfmade ringingtones
> 
> hi there,
> 
> i am preparing a series of workshop for kids for diy-media-production and it
> would be great fun to get them on producing their own ringingtones for their
> cellular-phones (it would really help them saving their pocket money ..).
> unfortunately i have never made one ringingtone myself and i wonder if
> anybody here has experience with making ringingtones on linux and knows
> useful software for that task and would like to share her or his knowledge
> with me?
> 
> i would very much appreciate help on that issue! 
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> jan brueggemeier
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 15:54:37 +0200
> From: Louis van Dompselaar <louis at dompselaar.org>
> To: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] selfmade ringingtones
> 
> It would largely depend on the type of phone which type of ringtone it
> will take.  Most modern phones take MIDI files (type 0) without problems.
> 
> Older phones need dedicated file formats which requires dedicated software,
> which I doubt is available on Linux.  I used the Yamaha software at one
> point (which is Windows-only).
> 
> 
> jan hendrik brueggemeier wrote:
> > hi there,
> > 
> > i am preparing a series of workshop for kids for diy-media-production and it
> > would be great fun to get them on producing their own ringingtones for their
> > cellular-phones (it would really help them saving their pocket money ..).
> > unfortunately i have never made one ringingtone myself and i wonder if
> > anybody here has experience with making ringingtones on linux and knows
> > useful software for that task and would like to share her or his knowledge
> > with me?
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 10:40:16 -0700
> From: Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com>
> To: Louis van Dompselaar <louis at dompselaar.org>,
>    planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] selfmade ringingtones
> 
> Louis van Dompselaar wrote:
> 
> > It would largely depend on the type of phone which type of ringtone it
> > will take.  Most modern phones take MIDI files (type 0) without problems.
> >
> > Older phones need dedicated file formats which requires dedicated 
> > software,
> > which I doubt is available on Linux.  I used the Yamaha software at one
> > point (which is Windows-only).
> >
> >
> > jan hendrik brueggemeier wrote:
> >
> >> hi there,
> >>
> >> i am preparing a series of workshop for kids for diy-media-production 
> >> and it
> >> would be great fun to get them on producing their own ringingtones 
> >> for their
> >> cellular-phones (it would really help them saving their pocket money 
> >> ..).
> >> unfortunately i have never made one ringingtone myself and i wonder if
> >> anybody here has experience with making ringingtones on linux and knows
> >> useful software for that task and would like to share her or his 
> >> knowledge
> >> with me?
> >
> It's difficult to answer since, as Louis says, it's highly dependent on 
> their particular phone. It's certainly a great idea to get kids involved 
> with something that they would use and would be excited about. Many 
> recent phones (within the last 6 months) have the ability to play GM 
> Midi files as a ringtone. But, for consumers, one of the problems is 
> getting the  file to the phone. Most have to purchase a cable to connect 
> their phone<-->PC. And some mfrs charge $40 for the cable!
> 
> You might ask your students what phones they have. Maybe if there are 
> enough that support Midi as a ringtone -and- it's easy for them to 
> transfer the file to the phone, you might go for it. In any case, it 
> would be fun even if there was only one phone that the class could 
> experiment with.
> For the software, why not use Rosegarden or Muse, and use a GM soundfont 
> with a synth that supports soundfonts, like qsynth?
> 
> (on a related note: Qualcomm has announced that they are supporting 
> Linux on their MSM6550 chip set. Hmmmm...Alsa and jack running on a cell 
> phone? Interesting:  
> http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/news/1260004997D0.xhtml)
> 
> -- 
> Brad Fuller
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