Features

About the benefits of an exploratory workflow for composing and arranging music based on reusable elements.

How to find chords that match a melody, or any notes you have recorded or imported.

Factory-generated phrases are a great starting point for further editing and arrangement. They can lay the foundation for a new project. Learn how to integrate Factories with your Synfire workflow.

Snippets are great for arranging music in real-time. Before you can play the grid, you need to populate it with phrases. There are many ways to do that. Also learn how to export snippets to an arrangement or save them in a library.

The Snippet Grid of Synfire is a tool for exploring potential arrangements based on instant live feedback. Learn how to compose music in real-time and have fun with Snippets.

Learn how to store containers in a library, restore them to any arrangement, or copy containers and snippets between arrangements directly.

Libraries are essential for collecting and organizing phrases, harmonies and other parameters. Learn how to use and create them.

Get to know the different coloring schemes you can use with a palette.

How to export Synfire arrangements, snippets, containers and individual phrases to your DAW or notation program as XML, MIDI or audio clips (loops) and stems.

Create and use phrases and parameters you collect in a library. A longer video with lots of tips and tricks along the way.

Learn how to use the Palette to navigate keys, build chord progressions and explore the space of harmony with your own palette layouts.

Creative tools for harmony are a major strength of Synfire. Learn how to build and edit chord progressions and collect them in libraries.

Learn how to import Standard MIDI Files into Synfire and create new phrases from their contents.

Explains the use of song templates, containers and aliases in Synfire Express and Pro.

Arrange a song in 15 minutes with Synfire Sparks. Also helpful for beginners with Synfire Express and Pro.

Learn the fundamentals of Figure symbols while you are watching a very (very) simple example arrangement evolve.

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.