Creating Your Own iPhone Ringtones
iPhone ringtones are a fun way to customize your iPhone. Instead of paying 99 cents for each ringtone you want, there are two ways to get ringtones. A 16-step process with GarageBand to create your own and using one of the simpler programs to do the same thing.
iPhone Ringtones can come from a variety of places. Movies. Music files. Also, you can record sounds from your daily life. Like your child saying, "Daddy, your phone is ringing." There are endless options for creative ringtones.
It seems that everyone wants an iPhone. They have so many great features and among those features, ringtones seem at the top of the list. iPhone users want to set ringtones for each of their contacts; this means that when a specific contact, a ringtone matched to him will ring.
Matching a contact with a ringtone is easier than you'd think. If your dad is a country music fan, you can use his favorite Garth Brooks tune as a ringtone. If your brother-in-law loves football, create a ringtone that's the NFL theme song. If your sister and family are argumentative, use the Married with Childred theme song. Go wild.
Create iPhone ringtones 1 of 2 ways. This first way has 16 steps and it involves Apple's GarageBand.
1) Launch both iTunes and GarageBand.
2) In iTunes, select the tune that you want to grab.
3) In your GarageBand window, select "New Music Project."
4) GarageBand displays a timeline with a single track. Delete the track (click on it and choose Delete Track from the Track menu).
5) Drag your selected tune from iTunes to GarageBand. The song is imported into GarageBand and a new music track appears.
6) Scan through the imported song and highlight the short segment you want to be your ringtone.
7) We're going to remove the sections of the music before and after the clip we've selected. Click the track and this will select it. Click Split under "Edit" at the top menu. This will break the file from the point where your mouse is. Then click on the portion of the file you want to delete. Delete it. And repeat for the end of the ringtone.
9) Pull the start of the ringtone to the far left of the track timeline.
10) Just before the clip begins, drag the volume line down to zero volume. This will create an end point.
11) Do the same for the end of the ringtone. This creates a fading for the beginning and end of the ringtone so it sounds smooth when played.
12) Time to preview. Play it. Does it sound good? If so, save it.
13) Toggle the button that turns the cycle region on and off. It's on the bottom, far right. It's a button that looks like a set of arrows.
14) Then a yellow line will appear just above the track. Using your mouse, click and yank the right side of the line. It should go all throughout your ringtone. Then save it again.
15) In the share menu choose "Send Ringtone to iTunes." Your project is converted to an iPhone ringtone that opens and plays in iTunes.
16) Then sync your iPhone!
This does seem like a complicated process. If you'd prefer something a little simpler, consider PocketMac RingtoneStudio for iPhone. It does all of this with a simple drag and drop.
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the site also offers a way to make free ringtones for iphone using only itunes.
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