Dept. of Fun and Games

[Fairlight]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 05:28:58PM -0500, J. P. Radley thus spoke:
> "Type Your Ringtone". Free app speaks something you've
> typed in one of several languages for use as a ringtone.

I prefer to create my own in the studio.  :)

I actually have done several musical ringtones, which reside on my wife's
and my phones.

I recently did something for the "Epic Sound Recreation" forum for my DAW.
The stated challenge is to recreate very well-known sounds using -only-
Image-Line software.  (e.g., the THX logo accompaniment sound)

I managed to do a very passable classic alarm sound from Kubrick's "2001: A
Space Odyssey".  It works -really- nicely as an alarm sound, especially.

https://soundcloud.com/fairlight2cx/2001-a-space-odyssey-the-alarm

Hour and a half, two synths, five effects plugins, just to get that.
The bass is deceptively hard to get sounding as hollow sounding as the
original.  The siren sweep is also "interesting" to program.  Went through
two synths before I pegged it in a third.

I'd love to know how they actually made the original, though.  They really
didn't have synths of these types in '69.  Most of the people who would
know how it was done are probably dead by now, unfortunately.

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