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compal/iMelody: capturing initial observations
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Thu, 31 Mar 2022 20:56:56 +0000
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1 The user-accessible ringtone melody composer feature on Mot C1xx phones (tested
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2 on C139, probably the same on C11x/12x) is based on iMelody, or more precisely,
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3 a subset of the full iMelody spec. When you go into the main menu, select
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4 "Ring Styles", then "My Tones", and then go to edit any of the "Empty Ring"
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5 entries, you get dropped into a text string entry screen, similar to SMS text
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6 or phonebook name entry, and the string you get to enter in there is an iMelody
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7 character string! Up and down arrow keys bring up a wizard that cycles through
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8 the 48 notes which Calypso PWT is capable of playing (F4 through E8 in the
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9 scientific pitch notation, but in iMelody they are called *3f through *7e
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10 instead), and as this up/down arrow key wizard cycles through the notes and
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11 plays them, the corresponding iMelody syntax gets inserted into the melody
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12 string being composed. But you can also bypass the wizard and enter the melody
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13 string manually using the numeric keys similarly to standard alphanumeric entry
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14 screens; when you operate the numeric keys in this melody entry screen, the set
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15 of symbols available on each numeric key is different from standard text entry,
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16 instead it's been changed to the set of valid symbols for iMelody. There is
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17 also help text accessible from the center key menu, and this help text instructs
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18 the user on entering notes, octaves, rests, 0-5 duration choices and even '.'
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19 and ':' duration modifiers in iMelody notation.
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21 Further experimentation shows which iMelody spec features are implemented and
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22 which ones aren't:
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24 * There is no mechanism to enter overall or initial melody volume akin to the
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25 VOLUME: header in IMY files, nor is there any way to enter 'V' characters
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26 into the melody string. Therefore, we have to conclude that this
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27 implementation of iMelody omits the notion of adjustable per-note volumes,
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28 and probably plays each melody at whatever "global" volume is set for the
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29 ringer.
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31 * There is no beats-per-minute setting, instead it appears that this iMelody
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32 implementation is fixed at 120 bpm only. Experimentation shows that '0'
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33 duration notes play for about 2 s, '1' duration notes play for about 1 s, and
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34 '2' duration (default) notes play for about 0.5 s - and in my reading of the
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35 iMelody spec (different from imyplay author's reading), '2' duration notes
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36 correspond to "beats" as in bpm.
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38 * There is no "style" setting as in S0, S1 or S2 as given in the iMelody spec.
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39 Because my wetware auditory processor is not capable of measuring
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40 milliseconds, I don't have any easy way to tell if this C139 iMelody player
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41 inserts any short rest or not between adjacent notes, and if it does, whether
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42 or not this short rest equals 1/20 of the preceding note, as my reading of
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43 the iMelody spec suggests for S0 mode.
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45 * The editor screen allows all 3 duration modifier characters '.', ':' and ';'
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46 to be entered. However, it is not clear if all of these duration options are
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47 actually implemented (back to the problem of wetware auditory processing not
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48 being able to measure milliseconds), and the help text only mentions '.' and
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49 ':' for 1+1/2 and 1+3/4.
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50
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51 * The editor allows entry of characters forming repeat blocks ('(', ')' and
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52 '@'), but experimentation shows that these repeat instructions are ignored,
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53 with the content of the repeat block played only once.
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55 * There is no way to enter vibrator or LED control instructions, and the
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56 phone's built-in ringtones don't exhibit any ring-vibrator synchronization
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57 (other than the single "vibe then ring" global mode) or backlight manipulation
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58 either.
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60 The remaining questions to be answered are:
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61
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62 * What is the exact tone play duration for every combination of iMelody duration
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63 [0-5] and duration modifier as in none or [.:;], and
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64
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65 * How much rest time is automatically inserted between notes, if any.
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67 My (Mother Mychaela's) current thinking is that the only way to answer these
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68 questions would be to take a suitable-model C1xx phone apart (specifically,
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69 remove the plastics, but keep all electronics intact and functional) and put an
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70 oscilloscope probe on some accessible point in the buzzer circuit, with the most
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71 likely accessible point being on the magnetic buzzer itself. Looking at the
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72 photos taken by OBB people, the magnetic buzzer is an SMT component, but its
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73 solder pads extend out from under the part, hopefully far enough to allow a
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74 needle-type probe to be applied there, or maybe one can solder a little wire to
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75 whichever buzzer terminal is the driven one.
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76
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77 If one can put an o'scope probe on the buzzer, the scope would need to be
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78 configured to trigger at the beginning of buzzer activity, and the time scale
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79 on the scope would need to be set slow enough to allow a capture lasting perhaps
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80 as long as 2 s. The first experiment would be to enter a melody consisting of
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81 just one note, and use the o'scope to measure the actual millisecond duration
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82 of the tone sent to the buzzer. First try different "base" durations from 0 to
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83 5 in iMelody entry, and confirm that they produce physical tone durations from
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84 2 s down to 62.5 ms. Then try adding '.', ':' and ';' duration modifiers in the
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85 iMelody entry, and see if they do anything.
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86
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87 After this first series of o'scope experiments confirming the duration of
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88 individual notes, the next series of experiments would be to compose melodies
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89 of several adjacent notes, preferably with different individual note durations,
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90 and see how much rest time (if any) is inserted between notes, and how this
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91 inserted rest time correlates with preceding or following note durations.