Setup

Learn about 7 easy ways to use the Sound Selection Wizard for easy on-the-fly configuration of instruments.

Learn how to setup a global rack and the global instruments, using your own VST or AudioUnit plug-ins.

Due to some undocumented changes since OS X Lion (10.7) the built-in QuickTime GM Synth turned extremely low in volume and got noisy and even a bit distorted.

Learn how to extract the sound names and banks off a loaded VST/AudioUnits plug-in. As many synths support this, it will save you a lot of work when you need a device description. Since most samplers (sample libraries) do NOT offer this support, the video also shows how to deal with those.

Any device description with a single connector can only connect to one rack module at a time. So if you want to use multiple instances of the same plugin on a single rack, you need to add new connectors, or duplicate the device description.

Learn how to assign sounds to instruments in an arrangement quickly, by picking sound properties (ranges, category, custom controllers, articulations) from templates.

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

If you want to skip the effort of setting up a global rack for Synfire or the Synfire Demo, or just don't have enough audio plug-ins (VST/AU) installed yet, you can begin with the following freely available sound libraries.