What is a Polyphonic Ringtone?

The appellation polyphonic has several related, but different, meanings.

Merriam-Webster defines accord as "a appearance of agreeable agreement employing two or added accompanying but almost absolute adapted lines."

Wikipeda defines accord as "a agreeable arrangement consisting of two or added absolute adapted voices, as against to music with aloof one articulation (monophony) or music with one ascendant adapted articulation accompanied by chords (homophony)."

A additional acceptation was added to the appellation accord with the addition of music synthesizers. Early synthesizers were alone able to complete one agenda at a time. Added avant-garde music synthesizers are able to comedy assorted agreeable addendum concurrently. Those synthesizers were again referred to as "polyphonic."

This is a hardly altered acceptation for the term, and created a bit of confusion.

The semantic bearings became alike added ambagious with the addition of ringtones for adaptable phones.

In the ambience of adaptable phones, a "polyphonic ringtone" is a ringtone in a book architecture which supports assorted circumstantial addendum and area the addendum are generated by the blast itself.

A ringtone with aloof one agenda at a time and which is generated on the buzz is a "monophonic ringtone."

The addendum in MP3's ringtones are not generated on the adaptable phones, but are instead digitally sampled recordings which the buzz alone plays back.

Most polyphonic ringtones are stored in MIDI architecture (MIDI, MIDI 0, or SP-MIDI). Sagem 2.1 and Qualcomm CMX versions 1 and 2 additionally abutment polyphonic ringtones.