Tutorials / Insights

Learn which symbols to use for melodies and chords and how to control their behavior.

Learn how tell a good figure recognition result from a bad one and how to make a Figure portable, such that it works in any harmonic context.

The phrases for this piano example have been 100% drawn by hand. The example makes use of the ducking feature to mute everything under a few interspersed melodic runs.

Have a look into a piece for piano and orchestra and see themes and motifs come and go while it's playing.

Get inspired by how figures can be transformed, copied, duplicated, transposed, stretched, reversed, scrolled with Synfire and more.

How the timing of phrases and progressions interact with each other.

Learn how to build up a cinematic piano theme step by step from easy to play phrase overdubs. Even if you are not good at playing the keyboard, using Synfire, this is simple and fun.