1. SMAF What Is SMAF? What Is Is SMAF? What Can Use SMAF? SMAF Structure How SMAF files are Created MIDI and SMAF Demo

2. SMAF Synthetic music Mobile Application Format

3. What is SMAF? Data format specified by YAMAHA Defines multimedia content for hand held devices, mostly phones Common application are cell phone ringers Can also handle graphics

4. What Is Is Smaf? SMAF specification consists of one or more data sequences encapsulated in a single file Sequences are combined into a form which can be played back on the device All sequences are played back in synchronization

5. What Can Use SMAF? Any device that has a MA-2 or MA-3 sound chip can play SMAF sound files The SMAF (.mmf) files sizes are small relative to comparable formats such as MIDI files Depending on how many channels a MIDI file has, a SMAF file can be half the size of a MIDI file (no on/off)

6. SMAF Structure Files are made up of blocks of data known as “CHUNKS” A chunk consists of an 8-byte header and a body of variable length ChunkID identifies the chunk and ChunkSize expresses the length of the body in bytes.

7. How SMAF is Created Created by converters, authoring tools, and voice libraries. Converters take existing sound files.mid (MIDI).mid (MIDI).wav.wav Authoring tools create.mmf files from scratch Voice Libraries are repositories of sounds which you can process using the authoring tools to create SMAF files

8. Why MIDI is Good Millions of MIDI files exist Many developed applications for MIDI creation Conversion is easy Same for.wav files

9. MIDI Example

10. MIDI to SMAF

13. Examples of SMAF S105 Demo MIDI MIDI WAV WAV www.midiringtones.com