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Concepts
Introduction to the terms and fundamentals of Synfire
Arrangements
About tracks, containers and everything that goes with an arrangement

Concepts
Introduction to the terms and fundamentals of Synfire
- Music Prototyping
  What it's all about
- Parameters
  The components music is rendered from
- Figure Notation
  The most influential parameter that intuitively denotes musical expressions
- Harmony Concept
  About scales, chords, keys and everything that constitutes harmony
- Phrases
  A bunch of parameters bundled together
- Rendering
  Mapping the entirety of all parameters to MIDI output
- Arrangements
  About tracks, containers and everything that goes with an arrangement
  - Tracks
    All phrases for an instrument, spanning the entire arrangement
  - Containers
    Place phrases anywhere on the timeline
  - Global Parameters
    The special track that affects all instruments alike
  - Embedded Library
    The clipboard for phrases and parameters
  - Arrangement Rack
    Providing sounds for the arrangement
- Snippets
  Small containers for live performance and improvisation
- Palettes
  Surfing the space of harmony
- Libraries
  Collections of phrases and parameters, the building blocks for arrangements
- Factories
  Generating random parameters and phrases based on musically meaningful rules
- Sketches
  Conducting music in real-time
- Audio System
  About instruments, devices, racks, Drones and the general architecture of the Audio/MIDI system
- User Interface Basics
  Fundamental principles you should know to get started more quickly

Arrangements

About tracks, containers and everything that goes with an arrangement

An Arrangement includes everything needed to edit a song, composition, score or soundtrack, or whatever you are composing with Synfire.

One or more Instruments.
An Arrangement Rack providing Sounds for these instruments.
An Embedded Library serving as a creative clipboard for phrases and parameters.
Lots of Phrases for the instruments, arranged in a hierarchy of Containers along the timeline.

Projects

What constitutes a Project may vary. With most popular music styles, you probably have a single arrangement that includes all of a song, dance or ambient track. If you are composing for film, you may have multiple arrangements, each underscoring a particular scene and all of them based on one Global Rack with orchestral sounds. A project may also include Libraries with phrases you collected and optimized for a specific task.

You should keep all files associated with a project in one folder. Synfire doesn't enforce this, so it is up to you to keep your things together.