Resources

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 (...)

There are a few free sound libraries available for download from the following sources. You can use these to build racks for Synfire and/or for use in your DAW. If you want (...)

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 (...)

I've attached a spreadsheet (Excel) showing all the Interpretation Presets in one place.

Hi there, if you want to use Synfire as a midi sequencer, so...no Engines,no Rack saves, just Midi Drones and want to host everything in the DAW this is the way that (...)

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 (...)

This document contains screen shots of most Synfire Pro 1.66 build #3 windows and dialogs. It includes instructions about multiple ways to open each element. These come from a Windows 7 environment (...)

movie style pads i prefer to use linear recognition and Horizontal symbol for this kind of material also VL is weak but keyboard mixed ( without sustain :) ) gives some great (...)

Original files created with Noatikl Midi Cooker after import various rhythms applied to the figures.

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 (...)

Random links to songwriting and composition resources on the net. Feel free to add your own links that you come across.

Thanks to batch import and Reaper SWS actions! Enjoy.

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 (...)

This is a sample page you can use for testing. Every registered user can edit this page and create new pages. Want to try? Go and add some content to this page (...)

why not :) they are also best way to study how to create libraries before you start your own libraries you may want to check the "Take" parameters .. some of them (...)

Hi all. I've attached a generic orchestra template I've been working on that might be useful as a starter for others. Each orchestra group is split into its own bank with the (...)

Based on the device description Andre created for EWQLSO Gold I made one for the Silver version. Since the Silver version uses different keys for the keyswiches I customized them. I also (...)

1. If you want to take advantage of Ableton's instruments or if you want to rack plugins in Ableton, put a drone on a different track. On your track with said plugins (...)

Here is a Progression Preset which consists of ten progressions. Many are 16 bars long with fairly fast chord changes. Download this and place in Mac HD/Library/Application Support/SynfirePro/Config/Progressions. It will then show (...)