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Hi my friends. Does anyone here know how to use Synfire Pro with Cubase 15 or Studio Pro 8 on Windows 11? If you can synchronize the transport panel between the two operating systems (DAW and Synfire pro on windows 11) could you please share a visual guide on how you did it (Cubase or Studio one with Synfire Pro settings)? I would be very grateful, as the settings shared here are unfortunately useless. Thanks.
Thu, 2026-03-19 - 00:54 Permalink
Not what you are asking, I know, but just as a matter of workflow and convenience, have you considered capturing the final output of Synfire as audio (very easy), moving the audio into Cubase (etc.), and then carrying on from there?
In general there can be a significant productivity upside to avoiding workflows that rely upon running mutliple separate programs in sync with each other. (Not that it isn't a nice dream!)
Just my $.02 worth here, from personal experience in general. YMMV.
Thu, 2026-03-19 - 08:17 Permalink
Thanks for your reply. What you suggested is a great alternative. Could you share a short video or picture showing how you did it? I want to use my DAW and Synfire Pro simultaneously and synchronously while working on my projects. So, my main project should be in the DAW, and I want to create tracks to support it using Synfire Pro. Therefore, the tracks I create in Synfire Pro need to be heard synchronously in Cubase. Because just copying it as MIDI into the DAW and then deleting and recreating it (if you don't like) it isn't practical way. The most practical way is to be able to listen to both at the same time. I hope someone has managed this and can guide me. Thanks again my friend.
Fri, 2026-03-20 - 13:08 Permalink
>I want to use my DAW and Synfire Pro simultaneously and synchronously while working on my projects.
What I do right now is a bit different from that.
I first use Synfire as a discovery, prototyping, experimenting, and backing-track-generating tool. All these, IMO, are major strengths of Synfire.
Then, when I have in Synfire something I like that I want to add Vocals, Guitars, hand-played Solos etc. to, I export from Synfire as -audio-, drop that into the DAW, and then proceed with doing all those overdubs in the DAW.
IOW, I work in Synfire first. Then at some point I commit to what I've done in Synfire and from there move into the DAW environment to finish. In this way, I never have to deal with sync issues.
While it does seem like it would be ideal for Synfire and the DAW to run perfectly in sync side-by-side (e.g. using Synfire drones), and while some people may have acceptably achieved that, I (so far) have found it OK to have chosen to avoid that route because once you record any audio (Vocals, Guitars, hand-played Solos etc.) you have (essentially) locked-in the harmony and brought the phase of discovery, prototyping, and experimenting to an end.
Now, that last statement may not be strictly true in a technical and absolute sense. If you did have the perfect synced system working, and if you were very careful about either not changing harmony at all, or being sure to change it only in narrow specific ways that did not conflict with your recorded audio you could actually backtrack and change Synfire-generated output in some ways after doing other audio recordings.
All-in-all though, the real challenge, IMO, is to actually -finish- anything. I try to make choices and choose commitment points that promote finishing. It remains a challenge!
Fri, 2026-03-20 - 19:25 Permalink
Thank you for your reply. Yours is a good method to follow. However, there are established habits. Before using Synfire Pro, I created my projects in DAW programs for about 10 years. Therefore, Cubase or Studio One are essential programs for me. But Synfire Pro's contribution to people's creative power is incredible. That's why using both together is very important to me. I hope there is a friend who has chosen this path and succeeded with Synfire Pro. I hope they will share their thoughts with us here. But I am grateful for your time and answer. Happy holidays my friend.