Tommy Walker III has been learning how to make mobile phone ringtones, and he stumbled on this. It's the Nokia developers kit, which includes two VST plugins to simulate different models of mobile phone. One contains all the sounds available, the other models the speakers. As Tommy says: "Is this interesting? Probably not, but I just like the idea of being able to make my recordings sound exactly like they are coming out of a mobile phone." To test the thing out, I used a MIDI file of Radiohead's 'Paranoid Android'. Click to hear a N-Gage take on the intro, a Nokia 3200 doing the first choral bit, a Nokia 6650 doing the exciting bit in the middle and a Nokia 6100 rather mangling the spazz-out bit at the end. The plugins are free. Registration involves two separate email confirmations, but they don't seem to care who you are.
Posted by Tom Whitwell. 
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