Audio Engine

Synfire's own plug-in and audio hosting. For DAW sync, see under DAW or Synch

Migrating to 64 Bit

Dec 23, 2016

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By andre

As more and more plug-in manufacturers are dropping support for 32 bit, in the forseeable future Synfire will make the 64 bit Audio Engine its system default. That is, new installations and racks will use the 64 bit engine, while the 32 bit engine remains as an optional choice (currently it's the other way around). This article outlines how to migrate your existing projects and (global) racks to 64 bit.

Racks

64bit

Audio Engine

Vienna Ensemble Pro Setup

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Learn how to set up Synfire with one or more Vienna Ensemble Pro (VEP) servers in your local network.

List of Multi-Client Audio & MIDI Drivers (Windows)

Jan 23, 2015

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By cognitone

There is a known limitation on Windows with many drivers for audio and MIDI hardware: They do not support multi-client operation. This means Synfire and a DAW can not play audio or send/receive MIDI to the same device at the same time. This problem only arises when the DAW and Synfire are run at the same time. It is also not specific to Synfire. On Windows in general, running more than one DAW at a time is a challenge. This problem does not exist on OS X.

ASIO

Windows

Creating a Device Description by Extraction

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Learn how to extract the sound names and banks off a loaded VST/AudioUnits plug-in. As many synths support this, it will save you a lot of work when you need a device description. Since most samplers (sample libraries) do NOT offer this support, the video also shows how to deal with those.

Device Descriptions

Plug-ins

Connecting HN with VSTi's

Oct 24, 2012

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By juergen

There are already several videos from Cognitone about the sound setup for Harmony Navigator:

http://users.cognitone.com/content/harmony-navigator-setup

Here is an additional video that also may be helpful. It demonstrates how to connect Harmony Navigator with VST instruments which are hosted at Cubase. The connection between HN and Cubase is done via the MIDI loopback driver loopbe30, which comes with HN2 advanced.

HN

Plug-ins

Synchronization with DAW

Using Synfire and DAW on same ASIO device

Oct 20, 2012

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By cognitone

Most ASIO hardware drivers for Windows do not support multiple client applications to send audio at the same time. This can be a problem, if you want to run the Synfire Audio Engine and a DAW at the same time and only have a single audio interface hardware connected.

Audio Engine

ASIO

Windows

Replacing the QuickTime GM Synth on OS X

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Due to some undocumented changes since OS X Lion (10.7) the built-in QuickTime GM Synth turned extremely low in volume and got noisy and even a bit distorted.

Cognitone Drone, Sprike or Soundcase Plug-ins are not showing up in DAW or Synfire

Jun 25, 2012

By cognitone

Before re-scanning your installed plug-ins, make sure the search path includes the directory where your Drones have been put when you installed Synfire (default: C:\Program Files\Steinberg\VstPlugins). The search path is shown in a dialog window that pops up immediately after you requested a scan. On Windows, different directories apply for 32 and 64 bit plug-ins.

Plug-ins

Drones

Synchronization with DAW

Propellerhead Folder Permissions Fix (Mac)

Jan 17, 2011

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By cognitone

This shell script fixes file and folder permissions in the Propellerhead Software folder. Use this in case some other software installer has messed with the permissions and you can no longer install or update Synfire Pro. This script is meant as a workaround until we will have changed the installer to ask you for admin privileges and make these modifications automatically.

Installation

Synchronization with DAW

Audio Engine

OS X