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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
Rack Module Preset
Save time with presets for your most frequently used sounds

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 Module Preset

Save time with presets for your most frequently used sounds

A Rack Module Preset includes the current state of a plug-in, plus a copy of the Device Description it is associated with. It can be used to restore both in an instant, simply by dropping it on a rack module or track.

Save a new preset from the plug-in button of a Rack Module to add it to the Rack Module Library. It will be listed in the browser on the sidebar automatically, where you can rename, move and edit it. But most importantly, you can grab the preset in the browser and drop it on any Rack, Rack Module or Instrument to restore it.

Note: Synfire also uses rack module presets to automatically detect the device to be used for a plug-in by comparing the current plug-in state with those that have been saved as presets.