Arranging For Orchestra
Learn how to create an orchestral arrangement based on motifs, phrases and fragments from a library you built. A long video with lots of tips and tricks along the way.
Learn how to create an orchestral arrangement based on motifs, phrases and fragments from a library you built. A long video with lots of tips and tricks along the way.
Library with phrases derived from impressionist piano music. Usable as rhythmic patterns in modern music for various instruments.
About importing and refining a library of building blocks that can be used as a construction kit orchestral and hybrid soundtrack music. This ongoing project will be updated incrementally until the library is finished.
The complete and up-to-date user manual of Synfire Sparks, Express and Pro.
Learn how to arrange a song for songwriting and production using a song template. Explains the use of containers and aliases in Synfire Express and Pro.
How to arrange a song from scratch in 15 minutes with Synfire Sparks. This tutorial is also helpful for beginners with Synfire Express and Pro. Includes examples of different styles and instructions how to use the Pause parameter to automate a mix.
Get an idea of the overall window layout and how to move between pages and parts, how to zoom in and out of details and where to find what.
Extremely cool upright bass solo here. I just came across this while programming a similar style for the upcoming generative algos. Erm, it won't be quite as exciting as this live performance (...)
_sj Band Trio 02.rtime (from/for Harmony Navigator 2) The Combo: Band Jam, stripped down to a trio (piano, bass, drums), and with the drums Figure exported, edited to eliminate the guiro sound (...)
Enjoying Sprike already? We'd love to hear some feedback and encourage you to explore it and create some new sounds. We'd love to hear them! I should note that Synfire 1.8 is (...)
Learn how to setup a Loopback MIDI Driver for sending MIDI data from HN2 to other software running on your computer.
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 (...)
Learn how to find chords matching a given melody. This way you can make an entire Synfire arrangement follow a vocal recording or other pre-composed melody.
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 (...)
Here are a bunch of midifies, quantized to some well known drum machines. You could copy/paste the rhythm to your phrases, to get a wider selection of humanized, quantize values. Andre is (...)
Here is funk library consisting of many drums parsts, some guitars, and some basses.