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A Blues-ish Brahms (test)

By RobertoD

I'm doing some tests to find a viable way of assembling a library which could work in different harmonic contexts. The attached brahms_op4.coglib proved to be a good candidate. The op.4 Scherzo (...)

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16 bars of piano with just 1 midiclip

By RobertoD

Hi. I imported in Synfire the first bar (omitting the grace note) of Robert Schumann's Arabeske op.18 via midifile and built on that seven-notes excerpt a 16-measures piano phrase. I (...)

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Testing orchestral Kontakt libraries

By RobertoD

So far I used almost exclusively the built-in synthesizer, at 99% the Yamaha Grand Piano patch. This morning I did some experiments loading ochestral libraries directly in Synfire (no drone, I don't (...)

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An American in Paris

By RobertoD

I imported as static pitches the main theme from the MIDI file of Gershwin's An American in Paris . When converting it in Figures , Synfire totally missed the harmonies. So I (...)

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Almost random chromatic clashes

By RobertoD

A further example. In this short test I recorded (at a very slooow BPM...) a chromatic scale "out of tune". i.e., over a C major chord I began to play the scale (...)

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The Take Five challenge

By RobertoD

Keeping on experimenting with chromatism in Synfire. Take Five (1959), by Paul Desmond and the Dave Brubeck Quartet, is one of the famousest jazz standards. To implement the first two bars in (...)

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Brahms Intermezzo + Autumn Leaves

By RobertoD

Today I used Synfire to transform a Brahms intermezzo into something else. First, in Synfire I recorded from a MIDI piano the first 9 measures of Brahms at a very slow BPM (...)

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Chopin Prelude in G

By RobertoD

While I am struggling against a annoying influence, I have pledged to understand the basic concepts of Synfire. And, frankly, my surprise was great when I saw that the software is able (...)

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Up for remixes: Sprikes

By andre

This is an example song featuring 10 instances of Sprike and no other synth (except a drum preset from Soundcase). So this is a real demo of what you can do with (...)

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Sprike: Feedback and Patches

By andre

Enjoying Sprike already? We'd love to hear some feedback and encourage you to explore it and create some new sounds. We'd love to hear them! I should note that Synfire 1.8 is (...)

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Orchestral Music with Synfire

By ChristianM-Orchestra

Hi All, I've finished Polynegram Fragment 2, protyped in Synfire Pro. At the end of video, I've put a special mention for "Synfire" (poke Andre). It's here : [EDIT] A version (...)

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My new project: Planetary Treasures

By Jorge.Codina

Starting a new project: 'Planetary Treasures'. Music joined to photos and art from all around the world First Track: 'Butterflies' For further tracks, subscribe the Youtube channel. For downloading music only (...)

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Synfire Users Collaboration

By juergen

A while ago, the idea of establishing local Synfire user groups was born. I followed the further course of things with interest, however I was a bit skeptical whether this could work (...)

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MoneyB

By shed

One of my song composed with Synfire

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