@Peter-Ostry Well, that 90 minutes included half a dozen interruptions from folks arriving for our workshop. I've found it to be a bit of an art to do setup of a complex rig while graciously chatting with folks just long enough so that they don't feel "dissed" but also giving them the idea that you're "in the midst" and the trot off with a "well I see you're up to your eyeballs so I'll let you get to it".

Even when it is just a plain gig (i.e. not associated with a workshop), I often have curious techno-aspiring musicians asking about this and that. I sometimes engage them with some "the elbow's connected to the wrist bone, and the wrist bone's connected to the ..." type talk. Their eyes glaze over pretty quick ...

One big help is to label both ends of (pretty much) every cable. I use a label maker and have lots of colors (red=right audio, blue=left audio, orange=DC power, black=MIDI, green=stereo unbalanced, ...) and cover most of those labels with clear heat shrink-wrap. Then most of the hookup is minor ... when it says "VL70 Left Out" at one end and "MX122 Ch3 Left In" at the other, setup becomes mostly mindless.

Thanks for the assistance, Peter!!

Wow ... that's a really spectacular aberration! I was carefully listening for something subtle ... and then ... Blaaaaahhhhhhh!

I have never experienced this, and I do use the internal sounds quite a bit, including the Trumpet ...

@Peter-Ostry said in Balanced Outputs ?:

the outputs are "mono jacks".

I missed that, thank you.

@ladelfa Thanks for replying. Since posting, I have done a clean re-install and the Anyma V standalone is now working fine. However, the VST3 plugin in still being blacklisted by my DAWs.

I've received an email response to my error report from Jonathan at Aodyo, so hopefully they can debug it.

@join
Thanks for the reply, very interesting. I think I got it, almost.
The initial state still confuses me. What do the entries "Cell X only" mean?
The "random" selections are probably a psudo-random distribution of the on/off states of the 32 cells, right?

Okay, sold now on Ebay Kleinanzeigen in Germany.

@Peter-Ostry I suspect that Sylphyo B has had some damage to it's electronics from past moisture exposure ...

Some days before the same by me. I did charge it then for two days and it works. Hope yours will do the same.

@grommi said in Mouthpiece Mod to reduce Moisture:

I'm glad I registered to this community. I also had concerns about moisture in thw Sylphyo, read this thread and ordered these medical compresses from A. for a few €. They doe not lint and leave no fibers and hold back a good amount of moisture up to 1 hour of playing at usual room temperature.

I cut one "sheet" to 7,5 x 5 cm, made a roll, put it in the mouthpiece so that about 3 cm go into the moutpiece an 2 cm go into the Sylphyos housing. So cheap that you can change it as often as needed,

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Hello for my part I slide a small roll of paper towel like handkerchief or paper towel inside the tip and it does the job very well and almost free ;) it changes absolutely nothing to the breath or the dynamics of Sylphyo

still up for sale if anybody is interested

@join said in A Modern Sylphyo Keyboard is Required - The Omega Has All The Keys:

About the Duduk sound, it wasn't meant to be released because it has a few bugs (squeaks) and it still has them, but we could put it back as it is in an upcoming release.

Yes please put it back. We can play with partially broken sounds but cannot play without the sound :-)

@join said in Loom: overlays?:

@Peter-Ostry When you say "the musically relevant features should be refined precisely for this purpose", anything specific comes to mind?

Since I do not know the Loom, I can only say what comes to my mind when I see this wooden ribbon:

Relative and absolute pitch bend mode (Roli Seaboard strips and Y-axis are only relative).

Behavior at direction-changes (sometimes I hear annoying soundglitches in ContinuuMini demonstrations).

Configuration of the Y-axis for Aftertouch, Pitch bend and CC (I can imagine that this is already implemented).

Gliding speed dynamics for bowed instruments (missed in the Touché).

Can’t say much more, would need to play the Loom.

In general, I meant that the inventive and programming capacity should largely go into sophisticated musical playability. The gimmicks with fader groups, strumming etc. seem out of place to me, any mobile phone can do that better.

@join said in flute like Vibrato including pitch:

@Peter-Ostry "Setting several parameters after each sound change is unacceptable. That's why I hardly ever play the internal sounds, but mostly software instruments."
Do you mean that the internal sounds don't remember slider positions?

No, I meant that more generally. If someone wants or needs different Sylphyo settings for different internal sounds, they won't be happy without preset management. Nobody wants to go to the menu hierarchy after a sound change and copy the respective settings from a piece of paper.

At least that's the case for me, I only use a few internal sounds that I like with my basic settings. I do everything else with external synths where I can save presets.

But I don't know if I'm a typical user. For me, the Sylphyo is more of a specialised controller than an instrument on its own.

We haven't abandoned anything, but Sylphyo updates have definitely taken a backseat. That said, the synth engine in the Sylphyo is unable to run a physical model as good as SWAM woodwinds (which runs on powerful, battery-hungry computers), that's just a hardware limitation.

As you forgot the link, I'm posting it here: W. Duch - music recordings.

This sound is based on a physical model that, by nature, has a fixed note range, so it can't really be changed.

@Peter-Ostry merci beaucoup pour ces informations

@Peter-Ostry Thanks Peter. I didn't try as I was able to determine that the problem was that the LinkReceiver had a different firmware version than the Sylphyo.

@ahiotis I managed to get it to work. Basically used the LinkReceiver LineOut. I was hoping that I could connect the Sylphyo directly to the Mac but that's ok.

@join

Thanks a lot for the info : Clear

Merci beaucoup !

Frank

Thanks for the update @Laurent_AODYO ...

Taking a closer look at SuperBooth and ... well ... it looks pretty daunting. I'm from the U.S. and it's an 8 hour red-eye each way. Tickets are shown as "Unavailable" on their site (and also no workshop postings).

Then ... accommodations are far away: 50 minute train ride + 10 min walk + 20 minute walk. That's a total of 3 hours of commuting each day.
Then there's the restrictions: can't bring gear (really??), can't buy anything, and "better bring cash".

And now ... No Aodyo ...

Not sure if I'm missing something ...

Is there a better way to do SuperBooth??

Thank you Clint

@Gromit Thanks! I didn't remember connecting the Link with a USB-A to USB-A cable to the PC when I updated it last time years ago. Oh well, the cable was only $5. Maybe I'll find a use for it sometime.

I connected the Sylphyo cable from the Link's power supply port to the PC and successfully updated the link.

I found that in both cases--the Sylphyo and the Link--the device has to be connected to the PC and powered on first, before running the update program.

@Clint said in Addition to Native Flute fingerings:

Just checked the firmware download page and the Sylphyo firmware seems to be the latest, based on the file size (which changed from the original 1.5.0 to the update with this fingering restored).

The size of the firmware with this update shows in Windows Explorer as 14,965 KB.

I can confirm that the download file size of the macOS version of the Sylphyo (and Link) firmware version 1.5.0 on Aodyo's website, has also grown a little bit larger since the 12 September 2023 version.

@KDJ3992 Thanks for letting me know. Yes, it's a shame you had to pay to return it for repairs. It would be an even bigger problem if it had been out of warranty, which I think mine is now, especially without adequate discussion with Aodyo.

I'm under the impression it's done with STM32 MCUs, in which case it is update-able by a user with the right simple tools (usually just an ST-Link programmer or an STM32 Discovery board), without relying on the standard method, but also not without adequate discussion with Aodyo.

I finally gave in and updated mine to v1.2.0 a few days ago, successfully, on a PC with Windows 7. I haven't tried the new editor yet, but I mostly prefer to just use menu diving. I haven't explored setting up a MIDI controller for the new CC/NRPN mapping capabilities either, but that seems like it could be very useful.

I see this forum is now "protected" by reCaptcha. I know it had a spam problem, but I was under the impression most of those were from sweat shop workers, who spend all day solving Captchas, so aren't deterred by them at all. I am though. They annoy me so much, i can't focus for long enough to solve them. FWIW, pressing the headphones icon, for the audio version, is a lot simpler.

@Friedus Thanks, I wish I had more time to train ... I have now Akai USB, 4000s and 5000, but Sylpho is my favorite, although I miss a decent mouthpiece.

So many companies seem to end up like this. They start off with all the “we're doing this for you” stuff (no, they had an idea to make money) and when they get out of their depth or things go wrong, those who paid a LOT of money don't count at all. They'll probably start expecting us to feel sorry for them soon. Sure, that's startup capitalism, but they should be more honest to start with, especially to themselves.

Ah, Max4Live, the ugly little brother of Max :-)
So you got a quick solution, very good!

great update - thanks :-)

@synth618 Update:

I was able to get the rest of the 20 update sounds to work! But because I was uploading individual sounds, I had to individually import the ones that would not send to the synth, twice, [basically a second time right after doing the first time, without resetting the preset], and it worked.

For those who may have run into this problem if any [maybe my computer is just weird], this worked for me.

I did this way rather than in bulk, because I created some of my own sounds that occupied some of the presets between 30 and 50, and didn't want to lose them.

@ark Hi

For my part, I use the D without the thumb only when going from bass to treble. When I go down from the treble to the bass I switch to a D with both hands. I hope it's clear ...

No. The Link only gets this information from the Sylphyo. As far as I understand Aodyo's comments (we have discussed such things here before), the communication from the Sylphyo to the Link is not MIDI, so we cannot simulate it by sending MIDI data.

By the way, I don't know of any device where you can remotely set the MIDI channel on the fly by sending MIDI commands.

If you want to change the transmit channel or send on multiple channels, you have to do it the traditional way, after the Link, with hardware or software. The receiving channel is only changeable with the Sylphyo.

Petite mise à jour sympa qui me convient bien avec ses 2 sons de trompette et Kalinka !
Perso, je couple les sons de ma UVI Workstation avec les sons internes et ça déménage ... bravo encore aux développeurs !

As Clint wrote.
There is no Sylphyo or Link based solution.

On a software route you can do whatever you want, on the hardware route you are tied to relatively expensive small devices. The usual boxes are Midi Solutions or the BomeBox.

I myself went with the BomeBox and meanwhile have all my controllers and two synths controlled by this system. Bome software and hardware is not cheap, but very good.

Here in the forum we have already discussed blocking the transmission of program changes and an option to prevent this has been proposed. At least I understood that the programmer recognised the problem. But with Aodyo's current devotion to Sylphyo, I wouldn't wait for a solution from this side.

Ask and ye shall receive. Eventually.

https://aodyo.com/product/softcase-sylphyo-link/

Hello I can´t speak French, but I think you said that it would be nice to have a similar Software for the Sylphyo. I agree. But when you imagine that the lust update (often asked for) is more than two years ago, I have no hope that this will happen. Greetings Friedus

@Gromit Thanks for the news ! Aodyo really know how to communicate...

No sequencer realtime from Anyma :-)

https://soundcloud.com/user-819966312-266044932/goblins-ritual

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@Peter-Ostry

sorry to see you could not comprehend.

frank

@Peter-Ostry et @Friedus, I cannot deny that you are both right.
I cannot imagine that no one from Aodyo reads these posts. So, Aodyo, can we have general health information of the start up?

@Gromit thank you.

@NS-D
I suggest you start with the fingering you are most familiar with, in this case saxophone. If you need it differently, e.g. for fast or comfortable #/b changes, you can try other fingerings or settings.

Except for simple flutes, no fingering matches the original instrument exactly anyway, because the Sylphyo has no additional flaps.