z600 - midi ringtones suck bigtime

Just to clarify - aZ600 uses midi and midi only as it's ringtone
format?

If this is the case then that sucks in a big way. My friends with
other phones have all these cool sounding ringtones with all sorts of
good sound effects and all I can find for mine is stuff that sounds
like it was played by a 6 year old on a Radio Shack keyboard. I wish
I researched this a bit more before getting the z600 and maybe I would
have got something else.


Regards

Dene Oehme
"The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist"

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Perhaps you should have brought an electric guitar
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| Just to clarify - aZ600 uses midi and midi only as it's ringtone
| format?
|
| If this is the case then that sucks in a big way. My friends with
| other phones have all these cool sounding ringtones with all sorts of
| good sound effects and all I can find for mine is stuff that sounds
| like it was played by a 6 year old on a Radio Shack keyboard. I wish
| I researched this a bit more before getting the z600 and maybe I would
| have got something else.
|
|
| Regards
|
| Dene Oehme
| "The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist"

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:16:15 +1100, "StreetwisE"
<Hit_Reply_Group_Button@To_Reply.com> wrote:

>Perhaps you should have brought an electric guitar
>instead....................troll!

Nothing trolling about it pea brain. Do you even know what the word
means?? Do you suggest that everyone who wants to use poly ring tones
should have got a guitar?

>StreetwisE
....... but life stupid.


I bought the phone after reading a heap of reviews most of which
mentioned that it was possible to record a sound on the phone and then
use it as a ring tone. You can't and there appears to be no easy way
to do it.

I guess if anything I'm just gullible for believing internet reviews
written by people who apparently didn't go over the source of the
subject matter very well.

I am basically very happy with all the other features of the phone.


Regards

Dene Oehme
"The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist"

"Dene Oehme" <[email protected]> skrev i meddelandet
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> Just to clarify - aZ600 uses midi and midi only as it's ringtone
> format?

For the polyphonic tones, yes..

> If this is the case then that sucks in a big way. My friends with
> other phones have all these cool sounding ringtones with all sorts of
> good sound effects and all I can find for mine is stuff that sounds
> like it was played by a 6 year old on a Radio Shack keyboard. I wish
> I researched this a bit more before getting the z600 and maybe I would
> have got something else.

What phones do your friends have? What kind of "good sounding effects"? I
have yet to hear a polyphonic/MIDI ringsignal that sounds any better than a
cheap keyboard "midi" sound. Phones that can use WAV/MP3 are a different
matter, of course...

Of course, the quality of the ringtones depends on the MIDI files used as
well. Are you talking about the standard polyphonic tones, or have you
downloaded new ones?

Niall

"Dene Oehme" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:16:15 +1100, "StreetwisE"
| <Hit_Reply_Group_Button@To_Reply.com> wrote:
|
| >Perhaps you should have brought an electric guitar
| >instead....................troll!
|
| Nothing trolling about it pea brain. Do you even know what the word
| means?? Do you suggest that everyone who wants to use poly ring tones
| should have got a guitar?


No, not at all, perhaps a xylophone would be more appropriate for you, I
think they are on special at toy's are us !



| >StreetwisE
| ...... but life stupid.


Simple maybe, but not stupid, please!


|
| I bought the phone after reading a heap of reviews most of which
| mentioned that it was possible to record a sound on the phone and then
| use it as a ring tone. You can't and there appears to be no easy way
| to do it.

I agree with you here, a lot of reviews did state that you could use your
own recorded ringtones, but I don't think I will lose any sleep over it!



| I guess if anything I'm just gullible for believing internet reviews
| written by people who apparently didn't go over the source of the
| subject matter very well.

Too many toys to road test I would imagine!


|
| I am basically very happy with all the other features of the phone.


Yes, it is a great phone


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|
|
| Regards
|
| Dene Oehme
| "The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist"

>> Just to clarify - aZ600 uses midi and midi only as it's ringtone
>> format?
>
>For the polyphonic tones, yes..

After a bit more research I have found out that z600 also uses
IMelody. Are they polyphonic?


Regards

Dene Oehme
"The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist"

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> I guess if anything I'm just gullible for believing internet reviews
> written by people who apparently didn't go over the source of the
> subject matter very well.

LOL.
I think that some reviews are based on reading the manual and PR
material. Just ask a V200 owner to assign a ringtone to a contact or
even connect the poxy thing to anything else via infra red.
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If you want to have a sound effect on your phone then download a Midi
program (such as Anvil Studio) and play with the sound bank until you find
the sound effects.

You can then save these as a midi file and download to your phone and use as
a ringtone.

It does get a little boring listening to helicopters and trains and various
percussion instruments after a while though

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"Dene Oehme" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> Just to clarify - aZ600 uses midi and midi only as it's ringtone
> format?
>
> If this is the case then that sucks in a big way. My friends with
> other phones have all these cool sounding ringtones with all sorts of
> good sound effects and all I can find for mine is stuff that sounds
> like it was played by a 6 year old on a Radio Shack keyboard. I wish
> I researched this a bit more before getting the z600 and maybe I would
> have got something else.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Dene Oehme
> "The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist"

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In <[email protected]> on Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:03:45 GMT,
[email protected] (Dene Oehme) wrote:

>>> Just to clarify - aZ600 uses midi and midi only as it's ringtone
>>> format?
>>
>>For the polyphonic tones, yes..
>
>After a bit more research I have found out that z600 also uses
>IMelody. Are they polyphonic?

Yes, but it's like MIDI with the addition of phone control features, not like
WAV/MP3 audio.

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In <[email protected]> on Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:23:25 GMT,
[email protected] (Dene Oehme) wrote:

>Just to clarify - aZ600 uses midi and midi only as it's ringtone
>format?

The Z600 supports iMelody, AMR, and MIDI. AMR is closest to WAV, but is
intended for speech (8000 Hz, ACELP, 12.2 Kbps max), so music quality suffers.
(iMelody is like MIDI adapted to cell phones.)

Good free MIDI ringtones are available on the Sony Ericsson website.

WAV to AMR converters:

* Ericsson
<http://www.ericsson.com/mobilityworl...erter_v_12.zip
or <http://makeashorterlink.com/?E2A741697>
Requires 16 bit, 8 KHz, PCM WAV.
Windows Sound Recorder doesn't seem to produce an acceptable input file
format (and does a poor job on conversions in any event).

* <http://www.aertsweb.com/wav2amrgui.zip>.
Appears to be the Ericsson Converter with a GUI.

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>>Just to clarify - aZ600 uses midi and midi only as it's ringtone
>>format?
>
>The Z600 supports iMelody, AMR, and MIDI. AMR is closest to WAV, but is
>intended for speech (8000 Hz, ACELP, 12.2 Kbps max), so music quality suffers.
>(iMelody is like MIDI adapted to cell phones.)..............

Thanks for the excellent, comprehensive answer I was looking for.

Cheers.

Dene



Regards

Dene Oehme
"The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist"