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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.

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Virus Warnings Installing Synfire (Windows)

By cognitone Sat, 2014-11-15 - 11:15

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

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Problems With MIDI Input (Windows)

By cognitone Tue, 2014-04-08 - 11:51

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

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Message: "Initialization Error. Code -7" (Windows)

By cognitone Fri, 2013-01-25 - 16:41

If you encounter the error message "Initialization Error. Code -7" on Windows, this may indicate a conflict with some security or defense utility.

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Using Synfire and DAW on same ASIO device

By cognitone Sat, 2012-10-20 - 18:44

ASIO drivers for Windows do not always support multiple applications to send audio at the same time. This can be a problem, if you want to run the Synfire Audio Engine and a DAW at the same time and only have a single audio interface hardware connected.

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Message: "Error: Sharing Violation" (Windows)

By housekeeper Mon, 2010-12-13 - 12:00

This message points to another (possibly crashed) instance of the program still running invisibly in the background. Please open the Windows task manager and terminate HN.exe (or SynfirePro.exe). This should free up (...)

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Computer suddenly reboots during installation (Windows)

By cognitone Mon, 2010-12-13 - 11:58

This strange behavior was observed in conjunction with certain versions of the software "Spyware Doctor", which doesn't seem to like the MIDI drivers being installed. Please disable or uninstall Spyware Doctor while (...)

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Message: "Failed opening MIDI system" on startup (Win7/64)

By housekeeper Mon, 2010-12-13 - 11:45

If your startup log reads like this, there is probably a conflict with the ASIO4ALL driver under Windows 7 64bit: Linking to external MIDI libraries exception occured #(3221225477 0) Failed opening MIDI (...)

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Message: "Error: Sharing Violation" during Install/Uninstall (Windows)

By housekeeper Wed, 2010-11-17 - 16:54

This message points to another (possibly crashed) instance of the program still running invisibly in the background. Please open the Windows task manager and terminate HN.exe (or SynfirePro.exe). This should free up (...)