Online Updates
Synfire will show you a notice when an update is available on our website. With you can examine the type of update that is available. There are two types of updates.
- Updates
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Updates always include a full program installer. At this time Synfire cannot yet update itself, so you need to login to you user account and download it from there. Future versions of Synfire might make this procedure more convenient and integrated.
- Patches
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When a release is basically stable, minor bug fixes and improvements can be deployed as patches. Many patches can load into Synfire while it is running. So most of the time you can continue working without restarting the program. With patches, the turnaround is much faster, because there is no need to upload, download and install full updates.
Crash Reports
A complex software like Synfire is never really finished. It is constantly being worked on, be it to fix bugs, improve performance or add new features. You can help facilitate and speed up this process by submitting occasional crash reports to us.
If you experience an Unhandled Exception error, the current state of the program at the moment of the crash and the text of the Synfire console are collected in a file on your computer (runtime-errors.dump).
Open the dialog and click the button Submit Crash Reports. All reports collected so far will be sent to Cognitone and then deleted from your computer. Our developers work through the list of reports to understand the crashes and provide fixes for the next update or patch.
Downloading Patches On Other Computers
In case your music computer doesn't have access to the Internet, you can download patches on another computer and move the file to your music computer for installation. Save the downloaded files to a portable medium with . Then install them on your music computer with .