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Concepts
Introduction to the terms and fundamentals of Synfire
Audio System
About instruments, devices, racks, Drones and the general architecture of the Audio/MIDI system
Racks
Hosting your sounds.
Rack Modules

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
  - Instruments
    Instruments interpret phrases to render MIDI output.
  - Devices
    Device Descriptions keep important meta-data for sounds
  - Racks
    Hosting your sounds.
    - Rack Modules
      - Rack Module Preset
        Save time with presets for your most frequently used sounds
      - Transient Rack Modules
        Large sound collections on-the-fly.
      - Special Rack Modules
    - Global Rack
      Shared sounds for palette surfing, progression preview and arrangements
    - Global Instruments
  - Audio Engine
    Background application that hosts audio plug-ins on behalf of Synfire
  - MIDI Routing
    About the signal flow of MIDI data
  - Cognitone Transport
    ReWire module for synchronizing the transport of a DAW with Synfire
  - Drones
    Plug-ins that operate in a DAW on behalf of Synfire
- User Interface Basics
  Fundamental principles you should know to get started more quickly

Rack Modules

A Rack Module somewhat resembles the look of a 19-inch rack-mount device and takes on the role of managing the audio side of one or more instruments. It is not unlike the channel strip of a mixing console.

Since a MIDI port has a capacity of 16 channels, every Rack Module can supply up to 16 different instruments with sounds. Provided the loaded plug-in or connected external hardware is capable of receiving on that many channels, of course.