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I have a crappy Nokia phone that I'd like to program a ringtone to. I don't want to pay for the shitty downloads, and since I had to have the phone replaced I've lost my previous rings.
I can't go polyphonic, and the sequence cuts out at about 32 notes (including silent beats). I can only program in eighth through whole notes, and the scale starts at C1 and goes to C4 (though the notes sound to me higher than that, but it's not like I've got perfect pitch).
I've already managed to program in Smoke on the Water and Louie Louie, just to see if I could. What are other good, distinct riffs to plug in (and would you be so kind as to give the notation for them?)

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

In fact, I think their C1 is actually C4 or C6, judging from how high their C4 is.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

theme from the simpsons

― John Cocktolstoy (John Cocktolstoy), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Just go search for songs in MIDI, open in MIDI editor and copy, no?

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Devendra Banhart has some schweet ringtones.

I dunno, maybe check a grime blog?

― Mookie Wilson (mookie wilson), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

peter gunn theme.......

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, I had one of those monophone Nokias. Can you do dotted notes? I seem to remember this was possible.

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

On mine, on one boring and bored afternoon, I programmed the following:

Pink Floyd, "The Gnome"
"Call My Bluff" theme music
"Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em" theme music
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" theme music
"Fistful of Dynamite" theme music
"The Red Flag"
Dvorak's "New World Symphony" (not all of it - obviously!)
Kraftwerk, "Neon Lights" (I deleted this, it was teh rubbish)

It's easy to do once you get your head round it.

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

To give you an idea what it looks like, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" goes like this:

8e2 8a2 8e2 8a2 2e2 2c2 2d2 2a1 2- 8e2 8a2 8e2 4e1 4a1 4e2 4c2 2g2 1- 4e1 4a1 4e2 4c2 2g2

Yes I know, I'm a saddo

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

Kraftwerk, "Neon Lights" (I deleted this, it was teh rubbish)

Did you do the melody line? Here's the solo that pops up after a bit (pity the phone can't take 64 notes, then each note could be halved and repeated, and it would sound more right):

8g2 8g2 8c3 8c3 8#a2 8#a2 8#a2 8a2 8g2 8g2 8e2 8e2 8a2 8a2 8a2 8g2 8d2 8d2 8f2 8f2 8e2 8e2 8e2 8d2 8#a1 8#a1 8#a1 8#a1 8#a1 8#a1 8#a1 8#a1

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Dadaismus, I'm actually shjocked by this admission.

A friend programmed the verse tune for vdgg's "a plague of lighthouse keepers" into his.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 September 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

i programmed a long droning pitch into mine, which switches to a tritone up after about 20 seconds. repeat.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

I programmed in a few Spacemen3 and Spiritualized songs, then got bored and stopped playing with it. They're remarkably easy. The Velvet Underground, however, was much harder. I mean, it's all dronerock, isn't it?

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

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