For this assignment, I made my own ringtone in Audacity. I imported two separate clips from freesound.org of a piano and violin then cropped and joined them as seen in the photo below. I chose these sounds because I like more quiet, subtle tones rather than loud, startling tones. I don’t want sounds coming from my pocket that causes everyone surrounding me to stop and stare. Usually noises like this don’t lead to that.

I decided to do the Make Your Own Ringtone assignment worth 1.5 stars. For this assignment I used an app called Logic Pro X on a friends computer. Logic Pro X is an expensive, but really cool program that has several sounds already available to mix. Since the assignment asked that I use Audacity, I dragged the various sounds I used over to Audacity and mixed them to make the ringtone below. I faded it at the end so that if used, I would know I was about to miss the call.

Make Your Own Ringtone - 1 1/2 Stars

For this assignment you had to make your own ringtone using audacity. I used the intro of my three favorite songs Lost, I Lived, and How To Save a Life and cut and pasted them to make my ringtone. I wanted to make sure I did not have any words for my ringtone so I used only the first couple of seconds of the song. I used some effect elements on audacity such as fading out so as my ringtone continued to ring the volume would become less and less giving the impression of fading away. Initially I did not like how my ringtone sounded but after cutting and pasting the different sounds I enjoyed my final ringtone and downloaded it to my phone

This week, I decided to complete the “Make Your Own Ringtone” Audio Assignment. for this assignment, you have to join different audio clips into one file and create a ringtone for your phone that isn’t longer than 40 seconds. At first, I tried animals sounds, like guinea pigs, but found that mixing the audio of herbertboland’s ‘pianomood31′ clip from freesound and keweldog’s ‘plucked-harp4′ audio. I wanted to make the ringtone begin and end with similar sounds to let me know that the the ringtone has made a complete loop. The electronic harp music in the middle of the ringtone is raised in volume so it catches your attention if you’re not expecting your phone to ring. I altered the clips in Photoshop and to fade in and out so that the transition between separate audio clips wasn’t as abrupt. I would set this as my ringtone for unknown numbers so that I could listen to the audio all the way through and shorten it to be a text ringtone.

Assignment Value: 1 1/2 stars