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Concepts
Introduction to the terms and fundamentals of Synfire
User Interface Basics
Fundamental principles you should know to get started more quickly

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
  - Mouse
    Knowing some basic gestures greatly improves your user experience and productivity.
  - Parameter Outlet
    A hub for drag & drop or copy & paste of parameter data
  - Multiple Selection
  - Crash Reports

User Interface Basics

Fundamental principles you should know to get started more quickly

A few things the user interface of Synfire is based on and that are good to know before you start.