Containers

Here's how you can copy an Instrument,  good for say, moving a drum part from one container to another.

Just copy from the source, then paste in the destination.

You can also do similar at a finer granularity (e.g. a few notes from a Figure).

Also worth noting, you don't have to paste over the destination.   You can create a new container in parallel, paste into that, and then the container precedence will determine what you hear.

For example, this:

shows the lower container, a drums-only part, overriding just the drums in full-combo container A2.    If I inactivate that lower container I will hear the original drums from A2 again.  

If your song uses the popular verse/chorus structure, you can start from a template and fill it with phrases rather than building containers from scratch.

You can use drag & drop instead of copy & paste if both source and target are visible on screen.

Synfire is different from a DAW, mainly in the fact that you are throwing a lot of different types of objects around with the mouse. Once you get used to it, you will not want to miss it.

If you can collect a brief list of notes where you initially struggled with something, that would be a hugely useful resource for us to flatten the learning curve.

Often it's merely a small hint at the right place, or a more commonly used term for something, that makes a difference.