iPhone Tips: How To Create Custom Ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1

With GarageBand 4.1.1 you can export your original song, your original audio recordings, or use Apple Loops and iLife jingles to create a custom ringtone for your iPhone.

Here’s what you need to do it:

* GarageBand 4.1.1 or later
* iTunes 7.5 or later
* iPhone with software version 1.1.2 or later

1. cycle-region.pngIf you’re using a song from your iTunes library, just open GarageBand, open iTunes, and simply drag and drop the song from iTunes to a new track in GarageBand.

2. Now click the Cycle Region button pictured above, which will activate the region loop tool.

3. change-region.png Now adjust the length of the region to the section of the song you want to export to iTunes as a ringtone (40 seconds long or less), again as pictured above.

4. send-ringtone-to-itunes.png Finally, when you’ve got everything set the way you want it, just go to the menu bar and click Share -> Send Ringtone to iTunes. GarageBand will automatically convert the song to the proper format and sync it to your iTunes library as a Ringtone.