A polyphonic ringtone is a ringtone that makes use of polyphony. Many mobile phones make use of such ringtones as options for customization by customers. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... A telephone ring is the sound generated when an incoming call is received. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with ring tone, ring (telephone), polyphonic ringtone and Mobile music (Discuss) A ringing signal is an electronic telephony signal that causes a telephone to alert the user to an incoming call. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with ring (telephone), ringing signal and polyphonic ringtone (Discuss) A ring tone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call. ... A ring tone is the sound made by a telephone when ringing. ... Polyphony is the property of an electronic musical instrument which describes how many notes it can sound at one time. ...
The first polyphonic ringtones used sequenced recording methods such as MIDI. Such recordings specify what instrument should play a note at a given time, but the actual instrument sound is dependent upon the playback device. In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was originally any device that recorded and played back a sequence of control information for an electronic musical instrument. ... Note names and MIDI note numbers. ...
Later, it became possible to use digital audio recordings as ringtones. The recordings might be of music, speech, or other sounds. Mainstream music recordings used as ringtones are sometimes called "realtones" or "truetones". Real tones, which are often excerpts from pop songs, have become popular as ringtones. A recent innovation is the singtone, whereby the user’s voice is recorded to a popular track and then “tuned-up” automatically to sound in key. This can then be downloaded as a ringtone or sent to another user’s mobile phone. Digital audio comprises audio signals stored in a digital format. ...