Synfire, a clever piece of software

Oh, I forgot to specify that I inserted a Shift preset, too: it lovely humanized my virtual pianist :-)

EDIT II: the chords were generated by Synfire with Auto-Chords.

There are all the Cm13 notes indeed. I checked the Completion flag in Interpretation inspector, and Synfire completed the chord even with three written notes only.

I attach the .cognac file to this reply. I have used two pianos from NI Komplete: if you do not have them, Synfire should replace them automatically with the built-in Yamaha.

_Roberto

Anyway, the basic workflow was:

- draw a simple 2-bars rhythm in Notion and export it as MIDI file

- import the MIDI file in Synfire as static (percussion) pitches

- draw an approximated melodic line using the Gestalt tool

- adjust the melodic line and the Interpretation parameter to achieve a satisfactory result or at least something with a musical sense to start from.

That's all, more or less.

Yes, it could, thank you. Why are the links to Evenant broken?

To me one of the most intriguing parameters in Synfire is, quite obviously, Interpretation. Here is the same melody of my little test, this time superimposed to the built-in harmony template Angel Eyes. With and without interpretation.

Hmm... assuming that “parameters” should always be sequences of numbers (or bytes), you should be able to drag, say, the Figure “parameter” on the Velocity parameter and get a Velocity profile that mirrors your melody. As such it works, for example, if you drag an active (green) Shift parameter on the Figure parameters: you get a nice flowing scale of pitches. All Synfire parameters are more or less interchangeable.

_Roberto

I tested the interchangeability of Figure/Velocity and it did not worked as expected, I was wrong about that 

You can, though, swap Velocity <-> Shift (in case you feel the urge...) ;-)

Just another silly test.
I imported in Synfire one bar of CC#1 from Presonus StudioOne (as MIDI file). in Synfire I got this under the Modulation tab:

The I dragged Modulation on Figure tab and I got this:

After cleaning and dropping repetitions, finally I got this Figure:

You can listen to it from the attached mp3. 

At the moment I can't see how it can serve, but who knows... ;-)

Right-clicking the Velocity tab you can select "Extract from figure", which indeed... extracts the velocities from the figure ;-)

You get interesting results, even if not entirely predictable, even by copying the parameter Figure on the parameter modulation

It's a pretty esoteric software ;-)

(the same if you copy/drag Figure -> Bend or to any other MIDI controller)

[OT] This is our cat Spritz. His face is more or less as mine after a Synfire session 

Glad to be of help ;-)