I Need Sounds... For My Phone

Currently, I use some sounds from Earthbound (Mother) on my iPhone for new email, text messages, ringtones (although my ringtone is the "mahna-mahna" song by the Muppets) etc.

I want some new sounds - subtle, cool sounds that are nice to hear repeatedly. Hard to describe, really.

Can anyone suggest a sound pack (free or paid) that might appeal to me?

I figure a community of sound makers surely has to have some suggestions...

I have an iPhone if that matters.

http://www.factmag.com/2016/01/13/download-james-ferraro-ringtones-fukutone/

My ringtone for the past 10 years:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nfwj0qonjllh1i0/01%20Visa%20Fr%C3%A5n%20Utanmyra.m4r?dl=0

My text message sound:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g4gx4mwasii4q1z/SMS.m4r?dl=0

When my best friend calls me:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6v523ie6dt7icct/02%20Queen%20Versi%C3%B3n.m4r?dl=0

  On 8/8/2016 at 7:04 PM, hello spiral said:

 

The owner hasn’t granted you access to this link.

 

How about now?

S'werking

I like these -> http://www.digitalvomit.com/mobile-vomit

  On 8/8/2016 at 7:35 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

for the last 5 years, feel free to use

Winner.

So you're the people I want to smack really hard when their annoying ringtones or text alerts go off...

Seriously - this is the best you guys can do? I mean, Squee was the only one who at least made an effort...

difficult to please today

Although I didnt read "nice to hear repeatedly" ;) 

These are more "nice" --------->

Scanner Ringtones

https://soundcloud.com/scanner/sets/ringtones

Touch Music Ringtones

Also nice, except the fact you have to buy the CD to get this.

http://touch33.net/catalogue/tone_14_touch_ringtones.html

But then again it is from 2002.

why is this... a thread

Right you, any kind of ring tone goodness can be found here no matter what the situation:

http://www.ni2.se/downloads/free/Knytt%20Underground%20OST.zip

Dozens and dozens of likely suspects

I always wanted to rip the little menu sound on the Autechre Gantz Graf DVD as a ringtone but I never did, it was a cool little 5-10 second thing I think.

You can always just take a wav file of your favorite song or sound and rename it to .m4r and you have instant free ringtones. We all knew that right?

Or just have a normal phone that supports wav and mp3 files natively :)

kinda off topic, but still related and a thing I keep wondering about:

why don't smartphones (and other devices) make use of synthesis to produce adaptive/generative ringtones and notification sounds?

They have enough processing power to do this... generative sounds could basically convey meaningful information, but we're somehow stuck with primitive "dings" and jingles stored in static pcm audio files. E.g. different melodies/rhythms could encode information such as: who is calling/texting, or type of message. Subtle information could be encoded, you would know what's up before looking at your screen.

It could also just be aesthetically pleasing. Think of emoji, but for audio? It could be explicit, or an app could analyze content of e.g. a text message or a news blurb or whatever, and just introduce subtle variation...

I feel this is a topic that's just totally under explored. Actually it's not explored at all, there's almost nothing about this to be found on the internet, except one company did this once some time ago but there's not much info at all.

I mean just think about all the visual cues we get from our phones: text, icons, avatars, labels, infographics, all the time everywhere. On the audio side it's just: "ding" - weird!

Right now I'm just using DJ Shadow's Organ Donor as my ringtone.

  On 8/9/2016 at 1:43 AM, auxien said:

I always wanted to rip the little menu sound on the Autechre Gantz Graf DVD as a ringtone but I never did, it was a cool little 5-10 second thing I think.

had it as my sms tone. 

sms.m4aFetching info...

  On 8/9/2016 at 12:29 AM, dr lopez said:

why is this... a thread

Because I am asking the WATMM community, a bunch of people that sound is an important part of their lives - surely somebody has some suggestions...

I gave you 120 of the buggers - one of them should be suitable :)

I can't see anything wrong with those Ferraro ones

  On 8/10/2016 at 2:42 PM, azatoth said:

 

  On 8/9/2016 at 1:43 AM, auxien said:

I always wanted to rip the little menu sound on the Autechre Gantz Graf DVD as a ringtone but I never did, it was a cool little 5-10 second thing I think.

had it as my sms tone.

  On 8/9/2016 at 1:17 AM, mcbpete said:

Right you, any kind of ring tone goodness can be found here no matter what the situation:

 

http://www.ni2.se/downloads/free/Knytt%20Underground%20OST.zip

 

Dozens and dozens of likely suspects

Christ! almost half a GB! I'll have a look...

  On 8/10/2016 at 2:42 PM, azatoth said:

 

  On 8/9/2016 at 1:43 AM, auxien said:

I always wanted to rip the little menu sound on the Autechre Gantz Graf DVD as a ringtone but I never did, it was a cool little 5-10 second thing I think.

 

had it as my sms tone. 

 

That's lovely... this is the kind of stuff I'm talking about!

I did use a Metroid soundboard five years ago for my ringtones and notification sounds. Might do something similar with the new phone. At the very least change the default obnoxious alarm music I have now...