Make Ringtones Mac Garageband
May 25, 2017 Between purchasing ready-made ringtones for your iPhone on iTunes and converting songs on your computer, GarageBand on iOS is the least talked about alternative to adding more ringtone choices to your iPhone’s soundbite repertoire. We’re intending to change that by presenting two GarageBand-powered methods that will teach you how to create your own ringtones or text tones. Aug 05, 2018 GarageBand has no longer a template for a ringtone either. But since the most recent iTunes update did the Share entry 'Ringtone to iTunes' no longer work anyway, not even in GarageBand 10.2. There is no longer a Ringtones album in iTunes.
If you have a Mac, you have Apple’s GarageBand application and with that, you can create free ringtones for your iPhone 4S. iOS 5, the system that runs your iPhone 4S, lets you use ringtones as text tones as well, so you can associate custom ringtones with text messages from a specific contact. The procedure is as just described, but you tap text tone instead of ringtone.
If you have a microphone, you can record ringtones featuring voice recordings such as the following: “Yo! It’s your bro!” “This is your mother. Pick up the phone right this moment.” “Incoming! Incoming!” “This is your iPhone and I’m ringing.” And so on. You get the picture.
Creating ringtones is relatively easy. Start by launching GarageBand on your Mac and creating a new Music project. Then:
Click the Media Browser button to reveal the media browser pane.
Click the disclosure triangle to reveal the contents of your iTunes library.
Click your iTunes music library to reveal its contents.
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Select the song you want to turn into a ringtone and drag it onto the timeline (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! si the featured song in the figure.)
You can’t use songs purchased from the iTunes Store for ringtones if they are protected by Apple’s digital rights management copy protection. GarageBand won’t let you drag a protected song onto its timeline. The bottom line is that you can make ringtones only from songs you’ve ripped yourself from CD or downloaded without rights management or other copy protection.
Apple stopped using copy protection for music files in April 2009. If you purchased the song after that, you’re good to go. If you purchased the song before then, you can pay a small upgrade fee (currently 30 cents) to convert the song to iTunes Plus, Apple’s new higher-quality, non-copy-protected format.
Click the cycle region button to enable the cycle region.
Click in the middle of the cycle region and drag it to the portion of the song you want to use as your ringtone.
Fine-tune the start and end points by clicking and dragging the cycle region’s left and right edges, as shown:
For best results, keep your ringtones under 30 seconds.
Click the play button to hear your work. When you’re satisfied with it, choose Share→Send Ringtone to iTunes.
The next time you sync, your new ringtone becomes available on your iPhone. To use it as your ringtone, tap Settings, Sounds, Ringtone, and then tap the ringtone in the list of available sounds. To associate the ringtone with a specific contact or contacts, find the contact in either the Contacts app or the Phone app’s Contacts tab, tap ringtone, and then tap the ringtone in the list of available sounds.
By Malcolm Owen
Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 11:44 am PT (02:44 pm ET)
Creating a ringtone from the iOS device itself is easier in some respects compared to doing the same thing via GarageBand for Mac. While the music production or recording creation element is slightly different, due to it being iOS-based instead of macOS along with different recording options, the overall process is quite similar to the Mac version.
The main difference is exporting the ringtone and implementing it on the iPhone or iPad. Where the Mac requires users to find the file and import it into iTunes to apply it to their devices, exporting as a ringtone is more direct when performing the procedure on the smartphone or tablet itself.
Creating the Tone
Open GarageBand. If you have an existing project available, skip down to the Sharing the Tone section below.
Start a new project by tapping the plus symbol in the top-right corner.
While this guide isn't going to delve into GarageBand production, it is suggested to the reader to experiment with all of the options available, depending on what they want their ringtone to sound like by the end.
For example, you could use the virtual session drummers to create a basic beat, then lay down extra tracks using the built-in virtual instruments. This can also be used to record singing using the built-in microphone or the playing of real instruments.
A quick way to create a track is to go into the Live Loops section, selecting one of the example sample grids, and then record a session using the included samples.
Once created, tap My Songs in the top left to save the project. Give the new project a long press and select Rename, give the song a title, and tap Done.
Sharing the Tone
Long-press the new track or the existing project, and select the pop-up Share option. The new panel will offer three options, to export as a song, a ringtone, or as a project. Select Ringtone.
If you wish to use a different name for the ringtone instead of the song title, change the name by tapping it, otherwise just tap Export. This will bring up an extra notification advising it was successful, and while OK will end the process, Use sound as.. will allow for it to be set as a ringtone straight away.
Selecting Use sound as.. will bring up three more options, namely to set it as the Standard Ringtone, Standard Text Tone, or to Assign to a contact. Selecting either of the first two will change the default assigned tone to the new one, and will end the process.
If you opt for Assign to contact, the full list of contacts stored on the iPhone or iPad will be shown onscreen. Scroll through and select the contact you want to use. Lastly, select between Assign as Text Tone and Assign as Ringtone to complete the procedure.
Regardless of whether the tone is assigned or not, it will be immediately available to use in the main tone settings as an extra tone option.
To make it the default tone after exporting, go to the Settings app followed by Sounds then Ringtone. The custom apps will be at the top of the list, and can be tapped to set as the default tone.
Deleting the Tone
Custom ringtones created in GarageBand iOS and exported to the same device are not accessible within iTunes on a Mac, for unknown reasons. It is possible to remove the tones, but from within GarageBand itself.
Long-press any project and select the Share option, followed by Ringtone. On the screen for entering a new name, select Your Ringtones below the textbox.
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This will list all custom-made ringtones created on the iOS device. Tap Edit to bring up the deletion options, tap the red circle next to the tone you wish to remove, then the new Delete button to confirm its removal.
Once finished, click Done, and exit the export menus.
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Encore
Just like the Mac version, GarageBand for iOS ringtones are limited to only 40 seconds in length as a maximum. Rather than warn of this during the export, GarageBand automatically clips the tone to the first 40 seconds, eliminating the rest of the track.
If you have a composition and want to use only part of the song from the middle or the end, for example, duplicate the project on the Recent Projects page by a long-press followed by Duplicate. Enter this duplicated project and trim the track down to 40 seconds or less, before sharing again.