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MIDI tonesMusical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) enables the creation of polyphonic ring tones (musical compositions with differnet sounds). Polyphonic means that multiple tones can be played at the same time using instrument sounds such as guitar and drums.Midi ring tonesMIDI tones can be used as ring tones, message alert tones and as sound effects in cell phone games.The first Nokia phone to use polyphonic MIDI tones was the Nokia 3510. Most Motorola, Nokia, Siemens, Samsung etc. cell phones can play MIDI ring tones. Midi ring tones level 4The Nokia 3510 (first polyphonic cell phone) supports playback for polyphonic MIDI level 4 content (playback of 4 simultaneous notes).Midi ring tones level 16, 24Some phones have support for polyphony level 16 or 24 MIDI content.Download MIDI ring tonesTraditional monophonic ring tones for cell phones are downloaded to the mobile as SMS messages. Polyphonic midi tones are downloaded over WAP or MMS. Downloaded sp-midi tones cannot be sent to other cell phones.MIDI guide Many older cell phones donīt support MIDI format for ring tones and you cannot import or download a midi file directly to your cell phone as a ring tone. You can however convert a midi file to RTTTL or Keypress format and then send the ring tone to your cel phone. You can also convert the MIDI file to some other format that the cell phone uses for ring tones. Such formats are AMR (Adaptive Multi-rate Codec) file format, AAC or AMR-WB (Nokia True Tones). MP3 to midi Many people say that there is no "good" way to convert MP3 music to ring tones. MIDI is a much lower quality sound format than MP3 or WAV. YOu can convert MP3 to AAC with iTunes. A format change from mp3 or wav to midi is going to degrade the recording appreciably. There are however numerous "midi converters", "mp3 converters" or "wav converters" available. |
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