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Here you find selected published texts regarding this site, the web store, or the installation of our software. Many more articles, videos and contributions of other users can be found on our user portal www.synfire.com

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Sound Setup Guide

This article outlines how to set up a DAW or external rack for use as a sound host for Cognitone software. In case you have problems with the default built-in GM synthesizer (i.e. you can't hear anything after installing the software), please have a look at this troubleshooting article. more

Sound Setup: I Can't Hear Anything

This article includes instructions how to narrow down technical issues in case you can not hear anything after installing Synfre Pro or Harmony Navigator for the first time. more

Installation Issues on MacOS X

Read this if you are having problems installing a Cognitone product on your Mac (solution applies to error messages "The MIDI subsystem configuration failed" and "Please make sure Macintosh HD can be written to by the current user") more