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Since I starting using Synfire more and more, I keep realising its huge potential, and more and more questions are coming. Right now I wanted to know if Synfire Pro has an algorithm which affects the way instrument tracks from the same containter are relating to each other.For example, if I have a harmonic progression sung with a piano, a bass line and some strings, if I add a guitar, Synfire is looking at the voicings in the previous instruments and "makes place" accordingly for the guitar, or it doesn't matter how many instrument tracks are already in the project, they are not relating in some way. In my example, the guitar will sound the same no matter how many instruments are already in the project and how "busy" the orchestration might be at some point.
At this moment my workflow with pop music is very basic in Synfire: I set the harmony, then listening to different files form my libraries, and when I like something I throw it in Logic Pro. I thought it would be better to keep all the midi in Synfire till very late stages of the composition, but, since I work much faster with Logic, I prefer to do as much as possibile within Logic.
Mon, 2014-08-11 - 18:33 Permalink
Synfire does not modify figures of other tracks. This decision would be very hard to make and the results would be random, or require a set of rules (per each musical genre) that is difficult to handle. The latter is on our agenda, albeit not anytime soon.
The Cooperative switch (Interpretation) makes a figure avoid certain passing tones that are known to cause harmonic conflicts. The solo instrument should be the only one that is not cooperative, to ensure harmonic richness.
If "working" means mixing for the most part, Logic is fine. You can now literally "throw it into Logic", btw. If your entire concept, structure and harmony changes a lot, you would rather stay in Synfire until that has settled.