Wow! (blush)
Actually, I just gritted my teeth – and pulled out the instruction manual. (grin)
Eight buttons on the mobile keyboard represent each note as a crotchet. There’s another button to change octave. Another button sharpens the note and two more buttons lengthen or shorten each note. (Depending on how often you press either of these last two buttons, you can produce minims, semibreves, quavers, etc.) There’s also a button for a rest.
It does seem mind-numbingly tedious, at first, but you soon get the hang of it.
Unless you have a perfect ‘ear’, it does help to have the sheet music in front of you but even then, although you’ve programmed in the correct notes it can’t capture GL’s beautiful nuances of tone when moving from one note to another. You do just end up with an electronic representation.
Downloadable ringtones are a multi-billion industry nowadays, so perhaps Linus should think about setting up a download area on their site for their artists’ ringtones.
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