Setup

There's a known issue with Synfire 1.10.8 where on older versions of Mac OS X, the scanner reports plugins not loading correctly.

This error message prevented users from opening Synfire or HN in a few reported cases.

MIDI output is not sent to an external MIDI port (MIDI interface hardware)

As more and more plug-in manufacturers are dropping support for 32 bit, Synfire now moved to a single 64 bit Audio Engine. New installations and racks will use that engine, while the 32 bit engine remains as an optional choice for a while. This article outlines how to migrate your existing 32 bit projects and racks to 64 bit.

When setting the custom font and image scaling for your high resolution (DPI) display to 150%, some of the phrase editor's mouse pointers may appear garbled.

When running PLAY inside one or more Drones in Cubase, you may experience hanging (dangling) notes.

[B0011] User “ ” lacks sufficient permission to run Synfire Pro . It is required that you are a member of the “admin” group, or have the software installed specifically for . The program will exit now.

Unhandled exception: Permission denied ("/Library/Application Support/ Harmony Navigator 2/Updates/setup.db.temp)

Occasionally an anti-virus utility reports a false alarm on Windows, when installing Synfire.

Under Windows, problems may occur if multiple programs attempt to use the same USB MIDI driver for input at the same time.

You may see a message warning you that the downloaded package "is not from an identified developer". If you downloaded directly from the Cognitone site, you can safely ignore this message.