Songwriting & Music Production
Synfire helps you develop new music ideas and brings them to life.
With a DAW it's easy to fire up a drum loop, add a bass line and some chords. Everybody can do this in a few minutes and that's what it sounds like: All the same. You've heard it a million times.
Styles and genres come and go over time, but at the core it's recognizable musical expressions that make the difference. Synfire provides the creative space where you can find these ingredients and put them together.
The Confines Of a DAW
How often did you get stuck and didn't feel like (or have the time) to start over again? How often do you find yourself stuck in habits that don't get you anywhere? DAW content is static. Trying out different approaches with a DAW is extremely tedious. Often the best ideas come when a song is already half finished. Then you have to change everything by hand, re-record it, or laboriously rearrange it note by note and instrument by instrument in the piano roll (and do it again for each variation).
Some plug-ins help with chords, but they can't reshape your song. Editing tracks in a separate plug-in window is cumbersome. Chord tracks lack the intelligence that's needed for voice leading and harmonic transformation. Forcing notes into a grid just doesn't sound natural.
The Freedoms Of Synfire
The Big Picture
- Generate new ideas and shape arrangements as a whole without moving individual notes by hand. Explore different chord progressions and many surprising variations before committing to one. Be inspired by happy accidents and unexpected turns. Embrace new genres beyond your routine and habits. Escape writer’s block.
- Get results so fast that you can judge them more objectively (it's still hard to kill your darlings, but at least you now have plenty darlings to choose from)
- Train your ears and learn more about music theory along the way.
- Once you have something you like, export it to a DAW or notation for production.
Harmony
- Navigate keys, scales and chords intuitively.
- Replace harmony and Synfire rebuilds your arrangement accordingly.
- Find chords that match a melody.
- Collect chord progressions in libraries and apply them to future projects.
Arrangements
- Create, import, collect, and reuse all kinds of musical expressions and start new projects with easy drag & drop.
- Generate thousands of natural sounding phrases (Pro). A single phrase can be the starting point and inspiration for an entire song.
- Melodies automatically develop variations as the chord progression advances.
- Rearrange song sections and Synfire rebuilds all tracks to make them work together, no matter where you place them.
- Compose music around existing tracks in a DAW that's synchronized with Synfire (e.g. vocals).
- Drop phrases on a Snippets grid and play them as real-time live loops.
If songwriting is relatively new for you, Synfire is a wonderful companion that can assist you along the way. If you are an experienced musician, Synfire can give many fresh impulses and new inspiration.
Snippets
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All features mentioned on this page are included with the Pro edition. The Sparks and Express editions may not support all of them. Please refer to the product comparison page for details.