Creating Your Own iPhone Ringtones
You no longer have to pay iTunes 99 cents for every iPhone ringtone you want. In fact, using one of two methods, you can create your iPhone ringtones for free using a 16-step process or acquire a program designed to create your iPhone ringtones simply.
There are two types of files that can be used as a iPhone ringtones. Music files are a great source of ringtones. Also, movie soundtracks can be used as well. You can also things in your life like your child saying “Daddy, your phone is ringing.” There’s no end to your options.
iPhones are one of the hottest new gadgets around. One of the great features of these phones is that you can set ringtones to each of your contacts. This means that when George calls, George has his own ringtone. Most people like to have a different ringtone for each caller. You can get really creative with this. You can have a ringtone that reminds you of each person.
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) Highlight the song you want to create a ringtone from in iTunes.
3) In GarageBand, create a New Music Project. You can do this either by closing an open project and then clicking the Create New Music Project button on the GarageBand splash screen, or by selecting New from the File menu.
4) A timeline of a single track is shown in GarageBand. You’ll want to delete this track. To accomplish this, select the track and click “Delete Track” from the “Track” menu at the top of GarageBand.
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) You’ll need to delete the music ahead of the start of your ringtone. To do this, click on the track to select it, then choose Split from the Edit menu to split the track at the playhead. Click the blank GarageBand work area to deselect the track and click on the portion you want to delete and press the Delete key on your keyboard. Do the same for the end of your ringtone.
9) With your mouse, yank the remaining clip to the left starting place of the track.
10) About a half-second or so into the beginning of the track, click the volume line to create an end point. Next, click and drag the beginning of the volume line down to zero volume.
11) Do the same thing for the end part of the ringtone.
12) Time to preview. Play it. Does it sound good? If so, save it.
13) Next, let’s turn the cycle region on and off. This is at the bottom section of the GarageBand window. The button you want is on the far right; it 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) Now send the file to iTunes. To do this, click “Share”, then “Send Ringtone to iTunes.” Instantly it’s converted and sent to iTunes.
16) Sync your iPhone and your ringtone will be copied for you.
Of course, if this seems like a lot of work, you can use software such as PocketMac RingtoneStudio for iPhone, which does the work for you. This is what I call the easy way.