Managing Chord Inversions
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When playing the palette or any progression, you may have noticed that in Chords-Only mode, HN2 and Synfire do not play every chord in root position, as one might expect.
Creating and refining harmonic progressions (chord changes)
When playing the palette or any progression, you may have noticed that in Chords-Only mode, HN2 and Synfire do not play every chord in root position, as one might expect.
This is a progression document with various progressions of many Jazz Standards. You'll find the progressions listed by song names on the Section menu.
This is a list of links to songwriting and composition resources on the net.
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.
Build chord progressions from pressing keys on your keyboard. Synfire estimates the most likely chord in a sequence of chords.
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 up a preset progression when you upoen the Harmony Template.
I have created a chord progression palette. It consists of some Rnb type chords. I haven't quite figured out how to create future progressions. Should I do them by complexity, 4, 8 bars, genre. etc?
From user feedback and support questions we learned that there seem to be a few fundamentally wrong assumptions regarding what progressions are and how they work. Especially LE users seem to get confused by the built-in voice leading and its effect on the pitch distribution (voicing) of chords.
This video is showing an outdated version of Synfire and will be replaced.
Learn how to record and edit chord changes using the progression editor. This editor is featured in both Harmony Navigator and Synfire.
