Synful Orchestra

Normally I wait 10 years before asking, but is this dead? I ask as it is still for sale, I think. It always looked promising, now overtaken by audiomodeling?

The last sign of life was the following email from 2015:

Dear Synful Friends, .

At last there is a new BETA version of Synful Orchestra 2.6, and a new BETA website https://www.synfulauth.com. If you are an existing customer you can update for free at the new website. This version supports full 64-bit native processing on Mac and Windows. It also has a new user interface and a new software activation system. It supports:

VST (32 and 64-bit Mac and Windows -- Cubase, DP, Sibelius, Sonar, FL, MAX/MSP, Live, etc).

AU (32 and 64-bit Mac only -- Logic, DP, Sibelius, etc.).

AAX (64-bit only Mac and Windows for Protools 11 and above).

RTAS (32-bit only for Mac and Windows for Protools 10 and below).

The new SynfulOrchestra 2.6 runs on:

Mac OS X 10.7.x or later.

Windows 7, WIndows 8, or later (32 or 64-bit).

You must go to the new website https://www.synfulauth.com to download the BETA 2.6 version of Synful Orchestra. After the beta period (about five weeks) this website will become the new synful.com.

I hope you can find the time and courage to try out this BETA version.

Things you need to know:

1) When you install the BETA version it will remove the previous version of Synful Orchestra (generally 2.5.5 for Mac or 2.5.2 for Windows). So, you might want to download the installer for these older versions from the old website www.synful.com in case you need to reinstall it.

2) The new website is a bit slow now. That will change over the next month. It is also still under construction with lots of tutorial content etc. that needs to be uploaded.

3) If you are an existing Synful customer, you will need to obtain a new activation code to activate 2.6.x on your machine. It's free. There are instructions for how to do this on the new website. There is a 15 day demo period.

4) I really want to get your reactions to the new version. In particular I want to see how the new software activation system works. So do try to activate the software.

5) The new website does accept credit card purchases.

Please email me at eric@synful.com with any problems, questions, suggestions, etc.

Eric Lindemann.

Synful.

The demo download from synfulauth.com was reported by f-secure virus scanner to be a trojan, can anyone confirm this?

I just downloaded the SynfulOrchestraSetup264.zip file again. Norton360 does not report any problems.

regards, pat.

Hello Pat, can you use Synful? Is it working? What is your setup? I coudn't get it to work, a few years ago now, on a Mac 10.13.

Yes, it works fine with Win10 / Cubase 11.

pat.

i've installed it as AUon a M1 under Big Sur ans fortunately it works like a charm.

Great to know this. I'd be interested in trying the demo again, it's been years. This always seemed to be the route that https://audiomodeling.com ended up at.

Well, not exactly, ... the synful guy has developed a kind of concatenative synthesis in where the accuracy of phrases and melodic articulations has been focused rather than a physical modeling approach, as the audiomodeling team does...

Today I received the following email:

Synful Orchestra is Now Free

Dear Synful Orchestra User,

After nearly 20 years we are excited to announce that Synful Orchestra is now free! No activation or authorization is needed. Just download Synful Orchestra 2.7 from www.synful.com. Anyone can do this. It is completely free of charge with no restrictions. Please feel free to forward this message to your friends and colleagues.

Synful Orchestra 2.7 supports AU, VST, VST3, and AAX plugin formats. It is 64-bit only. It runs on Mac and Windows with Intel compatible and Apple ARM (M1, M2) processors.

We encourage you to upgrade to Synful Orchestra 2.7. It is fully compatible with previous versions of Synful Orchestra. We intend to stop most authorization and activation of previous versions. However, if you already have a previous version installed and activated this will not affect you.

If you have problems or questions installing Synful Orchestra 2.7 please create a post on our new forum. We will answer all questions there.

Eric Lindemann.

Synful, CEO.

Exciting news! I will be digging into this next week. Thanks pat.de for the headsup.