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Introduction to the terms and fundamentals of Synfire
Harmony Concept
About scales, chords, keys and everything that constitutes harmony

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
  - Fundamentals
    About notes, chords, horizontal, vertical and modal scales
  - Keys
    About traditional keys, tonal center and key changes
  - Scale Sets
    Multiple scales bundled together
  - Harmonic Context
    Information on key, chord, scales and bass that governs every moment in time
  - Progressions
    The succession of harmonic contexts over time
  - Harmonization
    Estimating keys, scales and chords from MIDI input
  - Polytonality
    Superimposition of multiple chords
  - Catalog
    Database of interval structures: The foundation of Synfire's knowledge
- 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

Harmony Concept

About scales, chords, keys and everything that constitutes harmony

In order for a Figure to produce MIDI output, it requires at least a context of Harmony to provide a frame of reference for its relative symbols and segments. The following sections introduce the basic concepts underlying the Harmony parameter of Synfire.