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You can copy a Global Rack sound (for example, a synth such as Omnisphere) to your project's Private Rack, and Synfire "strongly recommends" that you do so. This will avoid the tedium (...)

A animated gif made by @petearch where he is explaining how a drone setup for General midi (16 midi channels) in Cubase can be made. What GM soundmodule is here used (...)

Synfire is a very complicated program and it can sometimes be difficult to understand someone elses work or even your own when coming back to it after a period of time. This (...)

This no longer seems possible with Ableton Live 9. You can use Synfire to send midi cc to ableton and use an instrument's midi learn to map the controller but the native (...)

How to use automation in Synfire to control synths in Ableton Live and how to use automation in Live to control synths hosted in Synfire drones.

The parameter "Interpretation" plays an important role at the conversion of the figures of an instrument (the parameter "Figure") into MIDI notes. It is responsible for the voice leading. It is able (...)

In Synfire musical figures are represented by Symbols. There are different symbol types which are intended for different musical purposes and represented by different colors. The meaning of the symbol types is (...)

With the command 'Paste Rhythm' the rhythm of a parameter (i. e. the time pattern of the objects of the parameter) can be applied to another parameter. This video shows some applications (...)

This video demonstrates from scratch the steps to relocate a VSTi (here: Halion Sonic) from a Synfire Engine to a drone hosted at the DAW (here: Cubase). As you can see in (...)

If you want to export your Synfire arrangement as a MIDI file (for example to edit it at the DAW) and re-import it afterwards into Synfire you should use the option File (...)

The term "MIDI Drone" means that the Drone does not host the VST instrument itself (what's the usual way to use the drones) but only receives MIDI data from Synfire which then (...)