Make Ringtones Mac Garageband

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  1. Aug 05, 2018  GarageBand has no longer a template for a ringtone either. But since the most recent iTunes update did the Share entry 'Ringtone to iTunes' no longer work anyway, not even in GarageBand 10.2. There is no longer a Ringtones album in iTunes.
  2. Custom ringtones created in GarageBand iOS and exported to the same device are not accessible within iTunes on a Mac, for unknown reasons. It is possible to remove the tones, but from within.

By Malcolm Owen
Monday, April 09, 2018, 12:41 pm PT (03:41 pm ET)

While Apple's tone store is stocked with a huge collection of sounds an iPhone could play for a ringtone, it is also possible to customize an iOS device with a unique ringtone of your own creation. AppleInsider explains how to get a ringtone out of a Mac's GarageBand project and into your iPhone's tone collection.

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The music and sound effects that can be bought from Apple's extensive tone collection is a great resource for making an iPhone stand out or make it fit with your personality. Even so, there is always the option of making your own tones, for free, by using GarageBand to create and export the sound to your device.
While this was previously fairly simple to do, changes in iTunes means that it's not as straightforward to find your custom tones once they have been produced. This guide will go through the entire process, from creating and exporting, to finally adding it to a contact on your mobile device.

Creating a Tone


Open GarageBand on your Mac.
If you already have a composition that you wish to use, click Open an existing project and select and open the project file. You can skip to the Export the Tone section below.
If you are starting from scratch, select New project and Ringtone, followed by altering the tempo and other settings before clicking Choose.


At this point, you will have to create your ringtone, just like producing any other GarageBand track. This can range from full-blown musical productions using GarageBand's included loops, laying down new recordings with instruments, or even recording someone speaking into a microphone.
Once you have created your project, save it by selecting File then Save or Save As.. in the menu. Enter a name for the new tone, select where to save it, and hit Save.

Export the Tone


Once you are happy with the tone, select Share in the menu followed by Ringtone to iTunes.., which will bring up iTunes.


If your ringtone is longer than 40 seconds in length, GarageBand will warn that it exceeds this limitation, and needs to be corrected. If you are fine with GarageBand automatically trimming the composition to the correct time, select Adjust, or select Cancel to adjust it manually.


For manual adjustment, click the Cycle button in the project window to enable a yellow bar at the top of the screen. Drag the center of the bar to reposition it in the composition to cover the period you want as a ringtone, and drag the ends to adjust how long the cycle duration lasts.


An attempt to share to iTunes again will use the period selected by the Cycle button.
Earlier versions of iTunes would bring up the Tone menus, but the current 12.7 release does not offer this option. While it isn't visible, the tone will have successfully exported, and is in the iTunes library, but findable via Finder.
Use Finder to bring up the iTunes Media Import folder. The path from the main drive is usually Users > the user's folder > Music > iTunes > iTunes Media > Import. The file in that folder will be the finished ringtone in the .m4r file format.


Importing the Tone


Connect your iOS device to your Mac. While this can be done with a Lightning to USB cable, it is also possible to do this if Sync with this device over Wi-Fi is enabled.
Click the device icon near the top left of the iTunes menu to bring up the iPhone. Under the left panel's 'On My Device' section, select Tones, and drag the created tone file to the tone list. This will import the tone into the device's tone library, and make it ready for use.

Setting the Tone


At this point, you can see the tone in question in the iPhone's Settings app, under Sounds then Ringtone. Select the new ringtone to make it the default for the device.
If you want to set it as a custom tone for a specific contact, allowing users to know who is calling before seeing the phone's display, this can also be done.
Select the contact you wish to apply the tone to within the Contacts app, and select Edit. Scroll down to

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Ringtone and tap the existing tone. Scroll through the ringtone list to find the new entry, and select it.

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More Notes


It is advised that readers do not import music tracks they do not have permission or the rights to use for their own ringtones, for copyright-related legal reasons. Also remember that you can send the exported ringtone file to more than one device, and also to others to use on their own iPhones.

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It is also possible to create a ringtone using GarageBand for iOS, then set it as the iPhone or iPad's tone. AppleInsider has also created a guide to producing tones in this way.

If you have a Mac, you have Apple’s GarageBand application and with that, you can create free ringtones for your iPhone 4S. iOS 5, the system that runs your iPhone 4S, lets you use ringtones as text tones as well, so you can associate custom ringtones with text messages from a specific contact. The procedure is as just described, but you tap text tone instead of ringtone.

If you have a microphone, you can record ringtones featuring voice recordings such as the following: “Yo! It’s your bro!” “This is your mother. Pick up the phone right this moment.” “Incoming! Incoming!” “This is your iPhone and I’m ringing.” And so on. You get the picture.

Creating ringtones is relatively easy. Start by launching GarageBand on your Mac and creating a new Music project. Then:

  1. Click the Media Browser button to reveal the media browser pane.

  2. Click the disclosure triangle to reveal the contents of your iTunes library.

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  3. Click your iTunes music library to reveal its contents.

  4. Select the song you want to turn into a ringtone and drag it onto the timeline (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! si the featured song in the figure.)

    You can’t use songs purchased from the iTunes Store for ringtones if they are protected by Apple’s digital rights management copy protection. GarageBand won’t let you drag a protected song onto its timeline. The bottom line is that you can make ringtones only from songs you’ve ripped yourself from CD or downloaded without rights management or other copy protection.

    Apple stopped using copy protection for music files in April 2009. If you purchased the song after that, you’re good to go. If you purchased the song before then, you can pay a small upgrade fee (currently 30 cents) to convert the song to iTunes Plus, Apple’s new higher-quality, non-copy-protected format.

  5. Click the cycle region button to enable the cycle region.

  6. Click in the middle of the cycle region and drag it to the portion of the song you want to use as your ringtone.

  7. Fine-tune the start and end points by clicking and dragging the cycle region’s left and right edges, as shown:

    For best results, keep your ringtones under 30 seconds.

  8. Click the play button to hear your work. When you’re satisfied with it, choose Share→Send Ringtone to iTunes.

    The next time you sync, your new ringtone becomes available on your iPhone. To use it as your ringtone, tap Settings, Sounds, Ringtone, and then tap the ringtone in the list of available sounds. To associate the ringtone with a specific contact or contacts, find the contact in either the Contacts app or the Phone app’s Contacts tab, tap ringtone, and then tap the ringtone in the list of available sounds.