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Introduction to the Harmony First workflow

Like most of my current projects, this one evolved on the side while I was testing Synfire features. It was never meant to be completed or anything special, but when I opened (...)

This is my first work with Synfire that completely relies on the Audio Engine and doesn't end up with the MIDI data being excported to a DAW. The music was done using (...)

I've now finished the song that we discussed a few stages of its creation in the "Work in Progress" section of the forum. I would like to thank everyone who has given (...)

This fragment is basically just the root container with a few phrases. Listen an see how far an arrangement as minimal as this can go.

Now it's time for Pop. I've written this song many years ago with an early version of Synfire, long before it became available to the public. Today Synfire is way more powerful (...)

Trigger Warning: The song is political. It's not my intention to start a political argument on this forum, nor will I engage in one. I've been writing songs for 52 years (...)

I just sent a piece for potential corrections etc. to performing musicians. This is a piece for a campanula -- a variant of the cello with resonance strings -- and accordion. It (...)

About importing and refining a library of building blocks that can be used as a construction kit orchestral and hybrid soundtrack music. This ongoing project will be updated incrementally until the library is finished.

More than any other kind of software, Synfire confronts you with the essential questions of creativity. What do you do to kick off creative momentum?

I just finished a new song, it was my first project after switching from Cubase to FL Studio as DAW. As a long-term Cubase user this was quite tough, but I feel (...)

ChatGPT writes texts, programs in several program languages etc. etc. ChatGPT composed! How does ChatGPT output music --- as musicxml. Works well. Copy the musicxml texts from ChatGPT into an xml editor (...)

For orchestral arrangements it is inevitable that overlapping melodic lines (chords, harmony) can be distributed across instruments based on pitch. What is the best way to do this?

I produced this for a Taxi listing. (If you don't know what Taxi is, google "Taxi music".) But I got so wrapped up in it...making changes, being a perfectionist, etc...that I missed (...)

Hi all, After a few months of hard work, I'm happy of publishing the second part of Suite Coloma. As usual, Synfire has been an essential tool for composing and developing the (...)

How To Write Songs - YouTube The channel is of course not specific to Synfire, but there's a ton of information which will be of interest to many Synfire users. They don't (...)

The other day a song with the two Synthesizer-V voices Solaria and Kevin came to my attention, which made me realize how well these voices fit together in a duet. Must do (...)

This week I took delivery of a new (old) synth...a Roland JV-1080. In checking out the included presets, I found one called "Wave Bells" that really appealed to me. So over the (...)

In addition to bug fixes and other improvements, one major improvement will stand out with the coming 2.1. update.

New short 2 min cinematic song made with Synfire hooked up via VST to Synthesiser V. I used the Solaria voice for this one.

Happy new year everyone. Here is my new cinematic made using Synfire and MotionLeap: A shout out to @juergen and @andre for their thread on the Pale Rider.

Please see my latest music cinematic. Grateful for your feedback, as always. I think this might be my best yet. Let me know. EDIT: Updated version

Made using Synfire 2.0 Again using AI generated art, motionized in MotionLeap

Started with stray chords, then used paino phrases on Soft Guitar Kontakt and copied the bass parts to core bass pear kontakt, used Borsta for the drum brushes. Used sonible Eq on (...)