The Top Toolbar is placed in the upper part of the AVS Ringtone Maker:

The function buttons are used in the following way:

Button	Caption	Description
	My Computer	Use this button to switch to My Computer folder to start browsing the drives and folders with files that you have on your personal computer.
	My Music	Use this button to switch to My Music folder in case you would like to edit and upload some media files located in this folder. My Music folder is created automatically with the Windows installation and is situated in the folder with the user's documents.
	My Ringtones	Use this button to switch to My Ringtones folder to start browsing the ringtone files that you put in that folder. The folder is created automatically on the program first run and is placed into My Music folder of the user's documents.
	Level up	Use this button to go to the folder that is located a level higher than the current one. That is if you are now in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Music\My Ringtones\ after pressing the Level Up button you will get to the folder C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Music\.
	Views	Use this button to change the way of the files list representation. The possible Views are: Thumbnails, Icons, List and Details - they correspond to the Windows standard file list representation modes.
	Help	Use this button to open the AVS Ringtone Maker Help file.
	Zoom out	Use this button to zoom the music file timeline out. You might do this to find the next specific place in the music composition to apply an effect to it or to return to the actual file length representation.
	Full zoom	Use this button to to return to the actual music file length representation. You might do this to find the next specific place in the music composition to apply an effect to it or to return to the actual file length representation.
	Zoom in	Use this button to zoom the music file timeline in. You might need this to find a specific place in the music composition file to apply an effect to it. If you selected a part of the file with the mouse, this button will zoom in this exact part of the file. Otherwise the whole file will be zoomed in.
	Amplify	Use this button to add Amplify audio effect to your file to increase or decrease the amplification of the sound in the media file.
	Fade in/Fade out	Use this button to add Fade in or Fade out audio effect to your file or a part of it.
	Normalize	Use this button to add Normalize audio effect to your file to achieve the greatest amount of amplification that will not result in clipping.
	Reverse	Use this button to add Reverse audio effect to your file.
	Flanger	Use this button to add Flanger audio effect to your file mixing a signal with a slightly delayed copy of itself.
	Chorus	Use this button to add Chorus audio effect to your file adding a single delayed signal (echo) to the original input.
	Delay	Use this button to add Delay audio effect to your file replaying the sounds of the selected audio portion after a certain period of time.
	Phaser	Use this button to add Phaser audio effect to your file giving a "synthesized" or electronic effect to natural sounds.
	Vibrato	Use this button to add Vibrato audio effect to your file cyclically changing a certain frequency of the input signal.
	Reverb	Use this button to add Reverb audio effect to your file of the sound that stops but the reflections continue, decreasing in amplitude, until they can no longer be heard.
	Time Stretch	Use this button to add Time Stretch audio effect to your file changing the tempo, but keeping the pitch the same throughout.
	Pitch Shift	Use this button to add Pitch Shift audio effect to your file shifting the frequency spectrum of the input signal.
	Trim	Use this button to keep the highlighted part of the music file and to delete the unselected part.
	Delete	Use this button to delete the highlighted part of the music file and to keep the unselected part.
	Undo	Use this button to undo the changes you have made to the media file.
	Redo	Use this button to repeat the changes you have made in case you have undone them.

After you double-click the selected file you can start editing it right away.

If you want to apply the effects to a part of the file you need to select that specific part with your mouse.

If you want to apply the effects to the whole file you might select the whole file timeline or leave everything unselected.

It is also possible to record the music from an external device connected to your personal computer (to the line-in jack or to the microphone input jack) or from a software (hardware) playback device installed on your computer - software player or TV/FM tuner.

To do that you will need the following:

• connect an external device or a microphone to your personal computer;
• run AVS Ringtone Maker;
• configure the input device that you would like to use clicking the Configure button - ;
• on the Player Toolbar press the Record button - ;
• start the playback of the external device, or start speaking into the microphone, or start the playback of the software player or the hardware tuner;
• to stop the recording process press the Record button once again.

After the recording is complete you can apply effects to the output file just as if it were a common media file.