What is MIDI RINGTONE?

Taking into consideration the rapid development of mobile technologies and, particularly, cell phones, we can say, that the memory of such devices is not really important, because almost all of them can support flash drives nowadays. However, it is not only the question of free cell phone memory or, even, the quality of the sound - some people prefer music without lyrics - in such cases they choose polyphonic midi ringtones for their cell phones.

You may think, that midi ringtones are some kind of ringtones in a special music format, but you are mistaken. Midi ringtones are only protocols, which tell your cell phone, when it has to play some note, transmit information about the volume, tempo, intensity, pitch, vibrato.

Almost all cell phones support free midi ringtones and very often midi ringtones are associated with bad sounding. But the very music is not really connected with the midi ringtones - these files only transmit information and your cell phone, in its turn, has to generate the sound. Usually, if you listen to your midi ringtone on your computer, you may think, that the music is similar to some old music of poor quality, which was used in early computer games, but this is the problem with your old sound card (it is too old and you need a new and better one).

As I've already mentioned, free polyphonic midi ringtones play music without the lyrics. I mean, that midi can play only pure music without the voice of the singer. Midi ringtones really take a few kilobytes of the memory, but the quality of the sound in most cases is quite good (even if you have a few year old sound card). So, if you decided to choose midi ringtones for you cell phone, you need to find some sites, which offer such service (downloading free midi ringtones). Some free midi ringtone sites offer lists of direct links to midi files, which can be downloaded with the help of different downloading masters (special programs, which can download files, and if the downloading was broken, such programs can reconnect to the server and start to download your file (in this case free polyphonic midi ringtone) again from the necessary byte. Usually free midi ringtone sites offer lists of a few thousands of midi files, which are organized alphabetically or divided into categories according to the style of music.

If you are creative person, especially, if you are skillful in composing music - you can write notes for you midi ringtone. For this purpose you need a special kind of software - midi ringtone composers (editors). They are available for downloading and usually cost nothing - they are free - freeware. One of the best programs of this type is Make Free Midi Ringtones, which is a very powerful program, which gives the ability to write notes pressing virtual piano keys with your mouse cursor. You can choose up to 16 instruments to compose one free polyphonic midi ringtone. Of course, this program has a big collection of different instruments: piano, clavinet, organ, guitar, violin, viola, clarinet, flute and more than a hundred of others. Make Free Midi Ringtones gives the possibility to preview your free midi ringtone from the very beginning. You can listen to each instrument separately or as an orchestra from the very beginning or a place, which you can show with the help of the mouse cursor. This program also has the ability to save these free midi ringtones to your hard drive and to transfer it directly to your cell phone memory via cable.

In some cases, if you like a certain song from your music collection, you can use another kind of software - midi ringtone converters. This type of software converts audio files, such as .mp3, .wav and others into a free polyphonic midi ringtone files. Such midi ringtones can, of course, be of considerably worse quality, because these midi converters use a special algorithms, which represent the source music in general (the output midi ringtone sounds lack details). This is the main drawback of free midi ringtone converters.

So, I have to say, that free polyphonic midi ringtones are a good choice for your cell phone. You have a good choice - you can download free midi Motorola ringtones