OMD Polyphonic Ringtones – A Cell Phone Delight

Remember when cell phones only had ringtones in MIDI format? Imagine having to search for a ringtone from the musical group Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark, or OMD, in a MIDI format back then. I think it would have been almost impossible; you would have had to make your own OMD MIDI ringtone. Fortunately though, over the years the technology has come a long way and now, although all mobile phones still support ringtones in MIDI format, you can have your favorite song in excellent quality as a polyphonic ringtone. You can even have your favorite OMD Polyphonic ringtones.

For those of you who don’t know, MIDI ringtones differ from polyphonic ringtones by the way they sound and how much space they take up in your cell phone’s memory. A MIDI ringtone sounds like a small piano is playing the song, and while it sounds pretty good, it has many limitations. For example, with OMD polyphonic ringtones you can listen to the lyrics of any OMD song, like If You Leave. Without an OMD polyphonic ringtone, such as a MIDI ringtone, you can only hear the rhythm of the song played by a distinctive type of piano keys.

After the movie Pretty in Pink, I fell in love with OMD’s song If You Leave and instantly downloaded OMD’s polyphonic ringtone onto my cell phone. For about six months I had that polyphonic OMD ringtone every time someone called me.

Then I got a cool cell phone that allowed me to set a different ringtone for each person who could call me. You can imagine that I ended up downloading the best OMD songs and gave my closest friends a separate OMD polyphonic ringtone for each one. At first I had to look at the screen to see how it was, but now just from the sound of a different OMD polyphonic tone, I know who it is.

For my husband I have the If You Leave OMD ringtone and for my mother I have Souvenir. I gave my best friend Tesla Girls because it’s our favorite song. I have a lot of fun with my friends and family with each of OMD’s polyphonic tones.

Thank goodness mobile phones can have polyphonic ringtones, I don’t know what I would do without my OMD polyphonic ringtones that I’ve gotten so used to. It may sound a bit over the top but as a friend of mine says, once you go polyphonic you can’t go back, or something like that.