other uses for Sonar....

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2014/01/29 08:29:31 (permalink)

other uses for Sonar....

So yesterday was a particularly hectic day in the home office.  Instant messages every 5 minutes and my soft phone ringing off the hook.  The ringers and alerts in my company's messenger and soft phone are brutal.   They are harsh and irritating and set my teeth on edge.  And there are no options in these programs like on a cell phone to change them.
 
So I thought, I bet I could do better with a Soft synth and make my own wave files.
 
Now when Cisco Webex IM calls me, I hear a Tassman4 synth harp with a long relaxing strum.  When my Avaya soft phone rings I hear a kind of tubular bells thing.....awesome.   (Trick - if you need to get a very small wav file for a program (like avaya 1X as an example), export wav from Sonar as mono and turn sample rate down to 11K (lowest in sonar) and you will get a 80 to 130 K wav. Some programs seem to choke on 1M ring tones)
 
Today I am going to make my own dial tone and DTMF tones.....
 
You probably all know this already, but it was a small change thanks to Sonar and Tassman4 that is really making a difference in my stress levels.
 
Other than that things are going well, thanks for asking.

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    Moshkiae
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    Re: other uses for Sonar.... 2014/01/29 09:08:54 (permalink)
    Hi,
     
    Ohhhh Tubular Bells tones on our Avaya phones? .... I like it! I sent this idea to our admin here. I wonder if he will even read it!

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    Re: other uses for Sonar.... 2014/01/29 10:00:09 (permalink)
    My neice actually used the intro of one of my songs as a ringtone on her cell phone......of course this was when I was using Sonar 8.5.
    Gald you brought this up, I should also use some synths to make a few ringtones. :)  

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    Re: other uses for Sonar.... 2014/01/29 10:44:01 (permalink)
    Cool.

    Should auld acquaintance be forgot--hey, who the hell are you guys?  
     
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    Re: other uses for Sonar.... 2014/01/29 13:27:25 (permalink)
    I find the ringtone to be the best when the phone is unplugged from the wall.

     
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    Re: other uses for Sonar.... 2014/01/29 14:38:27 (permalink)
    I made a custom ring-tone to use as my alarm sound on my phone. It's a slowly building synth texture that usually wakes me up gently - before the monks start "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW"ing me to wake up! :)
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    Re: other uses for Sonar.... 2014/01/29 15:33:29 (permalink)
    Using the beginning of Accept's Fast As A Shark might make for an effective, if disturbing, alarm clock sound.
     


     
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