{"id":7679,"date":"2013-08-14T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2013-08-14T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T20:30:22","slug":"how-i-created-the-iconic-iphone-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/how-i-created-the-iconic-iphone-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Created the Iconic iPhone Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jacklinstudios.com\/docs\/making-of-158-marimba.html\">Kelly Jacklin<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesthomson\/status\/366170912199942145\">James Thomson<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/jacklinstudios.com\/docs\/making-of-158-marimba.html\"><p>At some point, Jeff and I were chatting about his disc burning feature, and he said he needed some way to inform the user that the burn was done. DAS being a sound-making app, he wanted a sound to alert the user, something simple. Since I&rsquo;m a hobbiest musician, and had a recording setup, I told him I&rsquo;d tinker around and see if I could some up with something.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>So imagine my surprise when the iPhone ships, and the default text message tone is&#8230; &ldquo;158-marimba&rdquo;, now going by the clever (and not actually accurate, from a music theory perspective) name &ldquo;Tri-Tone&rdquo;. Time goes by, and this sound becomes iconic, showing up in TV shows and movies, and becoming international short-hand for &ldquo;you have a text message&rdquo;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Jacklin (via James Thomson): At some point, Jeff and I were chatting about his disc burning feature, and he said he needed some way to inform the user that the burn was done. DAS being a sound-making app, he wanted a sound to alert the user, something simple. Since I&rsquo;m a hobbiest musician, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,85,30,32,533],"class_list":["post-7679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-iphone","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-soundjam"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}