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I've had synfire for a while, but finally felt like I understood it enough to help with chord progressions, starting at 2m:51s in this song. It was a remix/redo/reimangining/bootleg (it's substantially different) of a song with existing vocals, so I basically found the root key, messed around to make a synth lead melody, and used synfire to help me make some interesting inversions and stuff.
(https://soundcloud.com/beatdriver408/firekracker)
I think synfire gave me the confidence to go outside of my comfort area and get some really weird off the wall sounding stuff in there.. it certainly saved a lot of time.
Fri, 2015-02-20 - 07:30 Permalink
Ok, a second one:
Synfire helped a ton, though there still was a lot of sound design and drum programming. Full ableton project also linked to it if you want to grab that.
Tue, 2015-02-24 - 05:55 Permalink
Hmm, I don't quite get what you're looking for or what your level of experience with Synfire is (as I'm still a n00b), but basically I was sitting at a keyboard, liked the drone noise, and then threw some breakbeat drums on it as a reference in ableton.
Then I opened up synfire, set up a global rack, and worked out a chord progression that seemed to work pretty well, made 3-4 progression variations in sub containers. The main container had about 6 tracks in it...
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then exported the whole thing as midi back into ableton and rearranged it.
Basicially synfire created blocks, and I added and subtracked the layers in ableton. Then it was doing the drums for real, FX (sweeps & risers), mixdown and mastering.
Does this help?
FWIW you can download the whole project on blend.io:
(https://blend.io/project/54e2c6ccba7eb4aa6a014f54)
maybe that will help explain it a bit better, not sure.
Thu, 2015-02-26 - 12:57 Permalink
Hi beatdriver408, thanks very much for the Synfire work flow description. Very helpful. I am still just a newbi also. Only being using it for a few weeks.
I am still discovering new things all the time. My latest disovery is adding horizontal scales in the palate window and playing around with the chords only for cetain scales. I think there is a whole word there to achive some very cool and uniqe music.