Assigning a sound to an instrument
When somehow your global rack got messed up, chord palettes, progressions and phrases sometimes don't generate any sound anymore when clicked on.
Learn how to assign sounds to an instrument by dragging audio plug-ins, presets, MIDI ports and other items from the sidebar.
Learn how to set up Synfire with one or more Vienna Ensemble Pro (VEP) servers in your local network.
Learn how to assign sounds to instruments in an arrangement quickly, by picking sound properties (ranges, category, custom controllers, articulations) from templates.
There are a few free sound libraries available for download from the following sources. You can use these to build racks for Synfire and/or for use in your DAW.
If you want to set up a global rack quickly, please read this article first.
Free NI Kontakt Player
If you want to skip the effort of setting up a global rack for Synfire or the Synfire Demo, or just don't have enough audio plug-ins (VST/AU) installed yet, you can begin with the following freely available sound libraries.
Hi there,
if you want to use Synfire as a midi sequencer,
so...no Engines,no Rack saves,
just Midi Drones and want to host everything in the DAW
this is the way that i am using for long time,
with Reaper mainly and the FL Studio.
it was kind a semi hack semi workaround at the first...
but then thanks to Andre now has official support!
called :
Transient Module.
Learn how to setup a global rack and the global instruments, using your own VST or AudioUnit plug-ins.
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.
This is a very short shot, showing how to address external MIDI hardware (multi-timbral synthesizer) for use by an instrument.
