August 2, 2006 23:42 | Bits

BoTone

This morning I received a parcel from Toys'R'Us. It was my copy of ElectroPlankton. What a treat.

electroplanktonTrying to relax on the couch this evening, I noticed in one of the modes you could turn on a display ("A" button) which indicated the angle at which you had tilted the leaves on the plant which cause the little thingies to bounce around just so and make nice sounds.

I immediately cleaned up my angles. ;)

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"This would make a great ringtone," thought I.
Plugged the Nintendos DS Lite into the Powerbook, sparked up GarageBand, fiddled and fuddled a bit... et voilà.

To note: most of GarageBand's "Instruments" were syhtesisable based on the input. I guess they are filters? This sounded real mean as "Guitar -> Modern Rock." Imagine if you could get MIDI out of this thing?

Comments
Thu, Aug 3, 2006, @ 11:51
1- Steve

Imagine if you could ....

Nintendo DS MIDI port
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000480073820/

;-)

nice ringtone BTW.


Sat, Sep 23, 2006, @ 1:18
2- jose_j

If you have any mp3, wma, or wav files on your computer, you can use Phone Sherpa's ringtone maker to convert your music into a custom ringtone:

http://www.phonesherpa.com

They format it for your phone model then send it to you wirelessly. Its very easy to do. Phone Sherpa also has a wallpaper maker that formats any jpg or gif to your exact phone screen size.