Synfire Pro Videos

The movies were captured on both Macs and PCs. Although the demonstrated features look slightly different, they are basically identical on both platforms. You will need a Flash Player (latest version 9 required) or QuickTime plug-in to view the tutorials. These are supported by most browsers. Please be sure to get the most recent versions of the plug-ins in case you encounter technical problems.

Basics

Synfire Pro - Introduction

Watch this trailer to get an idea of how powerful this all-new tool is and how you can leverage its incredible editing capabilities for your creativity.

Manual Progression Editing

This 4 minute video demonstrates various aspects of manual progression editing.

Harmonizing a Melody

This video shows how the harmonizer works. Synfire Pro was synchronized with a DAW through ReWire. This allows for the original vocal recording to be used during harmonization. However, in order to enable harmonization, the sung melody needed to be transcribed to static notes once.

Random Composition Walkthrough

This is a walkthrough showing various aspects of a Pop ballad production: Song structure, containers and aliases, drums, stretching of phrases and more.

Recording and Editing Phrases

Recording Phrases with Overdubs

Note: This workflow requires the update 1.1.3 to be installed.

Building Arrangements

Import 1: Learn from the Masters

Learn how to acquire rich musical material from Standard MIDI Files, which you can use to build new arrangements. Go for new inspiration!

Import 2: Build Arrangements from Phrases

See how the phrases that were imported in the previous video can be used to create a new piece from scratch.

Playground: Mixed Tour

This is a little tour showing various things hat are typically done with arrangements.

Reusing of Arrangements

An orchestrated accompaniment with 4 mouse clicks? Learn how to recycle portions of your previous work. One of the most powerful features of Synfire Pro.

Advanced Techniques

Editing Phrases

Note: This is a very preliminary and ad-hoc take, not scripted, not commented or narrated. Actually, this should not be published at all! Anyway, as many of you are curious and this video stuff takes its time, I decided to let you have a look over my shoulder and perhaps get a better idea of what's coming.

Configuration and Setup

Building Sound Racks (Example: Ableton Live)

Learn how to setup a rack of sounds and create the associated device description for Synfire. This example shows how to do this with Ableton Live, but basically the procedure is very similar with all DAW and hosts. Building sound racks for use as templates for new projects is the recommened way to work with Plug-ins/DAWs. This article explains the concept.

Building Sound Racks From Template Devices (Example: Reaper)

Device templates contain all sounds of a sound library. Simply duplicate a template and purge all sounds you don't need for a particular rack. This greatly simplifies building racks for your music. The video shows Cockos Reaper, but is generally valid for other DAWs too.

Hosting AU/VSTi With Plogue Bidule

Learn how to setup Plogue Bidule as a lean and robust instrument host for use with Synfire.

Hosting AU/VSTi With Apple Logic

Learn how to setup Logic to make it work with Synfire.

Hosting AU/VSTi With Ableton Live

Ableton Live can host VIs for Synfire too. In this screencast you will also learn how to synchronize the two programs in order to record rendered MIDI directly to Live.