Tutorials

Build chord progressions from pressing keys on your keyboard. Synfire estimates the most likely chord in a sequence of chords.

Learn how to edit drum patterns with Synfire. There is no specific "Grid" or utility for this, you simply use the pencil and line drawing tools with Static Pitch Symbols exclusively (brown).

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.

Get an idea what instruments, parameters, phrases, containers and other terms actually mean and how they are working together to render your music.

A brief bird's eye view on racks and how the global rack and individual arrangement racks are working together.

Learn how to setup a Global Rack, reset it to default and assign sounds to the six global  instruments.

How to create a device template and rack module presets for a large (orchestral) sound library with custom controllers and articulations.

How to create a device description by extracting the list of sound banks and program names from a plug-in.

Learn how to set up Synfire with one or more Vienna Ensemble Pro (VEP) servers.

Synfire can synchronize with your DAW so you can compose and arrange music around existing audio tracks.

How to minimize the inevitable latency and get the best timing for recording.

How to synchronize Synfire with Ableton Live

How to synchronize BitWig with Synfire

How to synchronize Synfire with Cubase Pro

How to synchronize Synfire with Logic Pro

How to synchronize Synfire with Reaper.

How to synchronize Synfire with PreSonus Studio One

How to synchronize Synfire with Avid Pro Tools.