Composer Instructions

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Creating a new ringing tone

The text below is taken from the user-guide to the Nokia 3210 which is available in .PDF format from the Nokia Website. Have a read through the guide then follow the example at the bottom. You'll probably need to refer to the diagram of the key-pad.

When you enter this function, the tone that you created previously is shown, if available. To enter a new or edit an existing tone:

c	d	e
f	g	a
b	-	+
oct	rest	#

1	2	3
4	5	6
7	8	9
*	0	#

Enter the desired notes. For example, press [4] for note f. The phone plays each note after it is entered (unless the phone tones are off).

To adjust the characteristics of the note, do as follows:

Note duration: [8] shortens (-) and [9] lengthens (+) the duration of the note or rest. The default duration is 1/4. The duration is shown in front of the note, e.g. 16d denotes a note d with duration 1/16.
Pressing and holding a note key lengthens the note by half, indicated by a dot after the duration, e.g. 8.a.

Rest: [0] inserts a rest (i.e. pause) of the same duration as the previous note. The default duration of a rest is one quarter note (1/4). The rest is indicated by the - character.

Octave: [*] sets the octave for new notes. The octave is shown as a number after the note (e.g. e1).

Pitch: [#] makes the note sharp (indicated by # in front of the note), e.g. #f. The pitch selection is not available for notes e and b.

(source: Nokia 3210 PDF User's Guide. Though I imagine the 3310 3330 3390 3395 3410 5210 etc. guides look pretty similar.)

Think about the following example:

Tune:
4g2 8.#a2 16g2 16- 16g2 8c3 8g2 8f2

Key presses:

5 * (6) 8 # 5 8 0 5 1 9 * 5 * * 4

The first note is 4g2 that means the note 'g' that lasts a quarter of a note length in octave 2. The first press is [5] this corresponds to the note 'g'. The next press is [*] since the default octave is 1 we need to press the octave key to change to octave 2. This note is complete and we move on to the next.

The second note is 8.#a2 this looks complicated but it follows the same rules as before. It means note 'a' of length 1/8 plus 50% in octave 2 and it's sharp (what ever that means.) Since the note is 'a' we have to press [6] only this time we have to hold it as indicated by the fact it is in brackets in order to increase the length by 50% (i.e. make the dot.) The next key press is [8] this is to change the length. The length needs to be reduced by 1 step as 1/8 is less than 1/4 and the sequence of lengths available are, from longest to shortest, 1/1 1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32 The final key press is [#] that is to make the note sharp.

The 3rd note is 16g2 it should be obvious now how to do this but well look it here as well. The note is 'g' in octave 2 of length 16. Hence we press [5] for note 'g' followed by [8] to reduce the length to 1/16

The 4th note 16- is not really a note but a pause. It is a silence of length 1/16. Pauses don't have octaves and can't be sharp. In this case the length is already set for us by the previous note so we just press [0] and this note is done.

The 5th note 16g2 is again simple as we inherit both the length and the octave from the previous note so we just press [5] which corresponds to note 'g'.

The 6th note 8c3 means we have to change both the length and the octave. First, as always, we press [1] for note 'c'. The following operations (length and octave) can be carried out in either order, we will follow that suggested by the program I wrote to generate the key presses. So we press [9] to increase the length (remember 1/8 is longer than 1/16) followed by [*] to change the octave.

The 7th note is 8g2. This is simple except we have to change the octave from 3 to 2. Press [5] for note 'g'. The octave can not be reduced but follows the order 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 -1 - etc. So we press [*]] [*] i.e. twice.

The 8th note 8f2 just requires a press of the [4]

The sequence is covers pretty much everything so now all you have to do is play it. Select a tempo of 100 and play, it should sound like Axle F. Good Luck.

There's some more help included in the FAQ on the Download page.

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Nigel Coldwell

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