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What Is Synfire

Synfire is a desktop application for composing and arranging music. It includes many unique tools for developing, collecting and reusing musical ideas. While Synfire has DAW-like features, it doesn't want to replace it. It rather creates a prototype that is eventually exported to a DAW for mixing and production. In the sequence of a user's workflow, Synfire comes before the DAW.

Using classic rules-based AI (which is not trained on other people's music), it understands, generates, and manipulates music at a conceptual level. You can experiment with different styles, harmonies, moods, rhythms, textures and melodies, without touching a single note by hand. It executes suggestions and variations for you, allowing you to explore different options before committing to details.

Synfire has aspects of algorithmic composition, in that its many automatable parameters often lead to unexpected and surprisingly beautiful results. On the other hand, users retain control over details, allowing them to shape the music exactly to their liking.

A summarizing product description can be found here.

A few music examples.

Learning Curve

Users who come from a DAW are accustomed to the idea that recorded music is static and absolute. In contrast, everything in Synfire is dynamic and relative.

To fully embrace the new paradigm, they must let go of their habit of controlling individual notes from the beginning. Why edit a melody in detail when it will be replaced by the next variation anyway? It's better to do this in a DAW after a final prototype has settled.

Another concept that takes time to embrace is the ability to collect and set aside elements for later reuse. DAWs don't support this. Now, however, you have a virtually unlimited clipboard for chord progressions, piano phrasings, rhythms, bass lines, fast runs, ostinatos, string sections, build-ups, and practically anything else you can think of.

Once you get the hang of it, you won't want to go back.

Our Collecton of videos on YouTube is being extended on a regular basis, so everyone can participate in this exciting development.

Our User Forum already turned into a vibrant place where users share their insights, ideas and discoveries. We want to support and extend this activity further.