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Introduction to the terms and fundamentals of Synfire

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
- 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

Concepts

Introduction to the terms and fundamentals of Synfire

Synfire uses powerful AI techniques and sophisticated knowledge-based algorithms to understand and process music at a high level of abstraction. Learn about the general structure of Synfire and the concepts of music theory it is based on in this chapter.