I bought my first cellphone at the end of 1998.

Most could only beep.

Now, the ringtone technology has gone way beyond monophonic.

Woman watching movie on laptop with popcorn and headphones

Polyphonic is also outdated.

While you could buy ringtones for your cellphones if you want to, creating one feels more rewarding.

As a bonus, you could show off to friends and relatives your unique ringtones that nobody else has.

01 GarageBand - Start

The next step would be giving a name to this project and choosing the place to save it.

And actually you don’t need to because we wouldn’t deal with complicated song building anyway.

For those who chose Example Ringtone, you’ll see the 17 second sample.

02 New Project from Template

smack the play button to listen to it.

The same thing applies if you choose Loops.

But here you could enhance your tone by adding more loops from the loop library on the right pane.

02b Loops

There are many other voice configurations available from the track info pane on the right.

If you have a deep broadcaster voice, for example, you might just speak out your own ringtone.

Then I dragged and dropped a song from the list to the main pane.

03 Voice

The song was converted into Garageband track and ready to be edited.

This loop bar time should be 40 seconds or less.

Another conversion and export process will take place and…

04 Voice configuration

05 Add new track-1

06 Adding iTunes song

07 GarageBand - Converting

08a Share Ringtone menu

08b Exporting to iTunes

09 iTunes Ringtone Folder