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@join
Thank you, this a great way to say goodbye
This little machine is simply awesome, and this update is impressive.
I encorage all of you to continue developing your ideas.
Best lucks

One anyma user

@Peter-Ostry said in Balanced Outputs ?:

the outputs are "mono jacks".

I missed that, thank you.

@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.

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

@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.

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.

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.

@Gromit thank you.

Hello Teknico

Interesting feedback. Thank you.

One thing to keep in mind is that the Anyma Phi being monophonic connecting MPE controllers to play it is not necessary the first use case.

The USB MIDI Host is meant to allow the connexion of MIDI Class compliant device but it seems that this "standard" is still subject to various interpretation among MIDI controller manufacturer.

What we tested on our side among MPE device though are 2 of the one you listed:

ROLI Seaboard Rise and Seaboard Block are working with the Anyma Phi Haken Continuumini was also tested but with the result you described with this "not enough power" message on the Continuumini although the power provided should be enough. We made a few attempts to check this was a USB software protocol trick (by rising the available power message) but with no success so far. We do not have any Linnstrument in our workshop yet so we couldn't make any test on this one. We weren't aware of the various speed available on this one. (This could make it a valuable test unit for our tests with the Omega). USB Hub is not really something we expect to work as the device is intended to manage one controller device.

One thing to keep in mind is that the main target of this USB MIDI Host port is to allow the use of the Anyma Phi with a controller which does not feature any DIN connector, so the expected MIDI speed is currently the standard MIDI speed.

The Anyma Omega will be done using a new generation board so there will be much more ressources available to manage a higher speed MIDI (and the merge and routing of MIDI coming from the various MIDI port: USB device, USB Host, DIN MIDI In ... and the "internal" command coming from the keyboard and ribbons, the CV/Gate signal etc.).
This is part of the necessary spec for the MPE compatibility of the Omega.
Once this would be done, we could then check what could be transferred back from the Omega to the Phi.

I really like the samson graphite 49. I use it currently with a modal synth, but Im curious how it would work with phi, I suspect very well because for the value it has pressure aftertouch, 2 banks of 8 sliders and one for volume, 16 function buttons, and two banks of 8 knobs, along with 4 percussion pads you maybe could route the piezo to [?].

Odd that Ive had my phi some months and havent tried using my graphite for it yet. Reason being id have to re-assign some of my midi cc most likely, and I kind of am 'used' to what I have it set up with.

Korg's nanokey studio however, I do also have, though its a bit small and only has velocity sensitivity and no aftertouch, it has 8 knobs, 8 pads an arpeggiator and an xy pad also. I think what I will try soon is connecting with this one.

I believe Aodyo made a youtube video featuring the phi, and the nanokey studio, although it was not too in depth it did show functionality of the knobs with some of the sound manipulations in the one shown.

Besides the graphite 49 I also have a beatstep pro, that actually could be a fun idea also.

@ForeverTangent said in Meet Anyma Omega!:

@doul

I am thinking about backing the Anyma Omega on Kickstarter, but I am curious about the Additive Oscillator module.

Can you tell me more about the general design of the Additive Oscillator. Specifically:

How many partials does one oscillator support?

Does it allow ADSR over each partial?

Can each partial be tuned in terms of ratio/frequency/phase?

Can a waveform (sample) be resynthesized by the oscillator?

There are not many synths that have a really robust Additive Synthesis support, and I am trying to learn more about Aodyo's approach to the their take before I commit to supporting the project.

Thanks.

Stan

Hello Stan

This is definetly not the purpose of the Anyma Omega to become an additive synthesizer. The additive OSC are simple one with one partial with detune and bandwidth setting. Other like Organ Osc can mimic simple additive synthesis as do organs. The purpose of such OSc in the Anyma context is more to have various tone source to feed the resonators.

No resynthesis on board.

I use cheap contact mics from Korg, the clip mics used for tuners and it works great.

@doul It doesn't seem to be Sylphyo V.3. :-).

I will wait up this new instrument. If it is not a new Sylphyo, I will probably say goodbye to Sylphyo (and Aodyo). Too many problems with the Sylphyo.

@maki76 I would consider buying the Anyma if you showed me the video demonstrating what I want from this synthesizer

We made some early tests with both Touché and Touché SE.

Touché requires too much power to be connected on the USB MIDI Host of the Anyma Phi. But as the Touché also has a MIDI out, you can connect it to the MIDI DIN in of the Anyma provided you insert the right adapter cables.
Touché SE works on the the USB MIDI Host though as it requires less power.

You can setup CC message on both the Touché and Touché SE (using Lié software) and the Anyma Phi, just set this up to your needs and start experimenting.

By the way, one can indeed control everything in the synth by using NRPN CC Message but the easiest and most efficient way to keep a consistant behavior between various patch would be to use the main "realtime control messages" handled by the Anyma Phi (these can be modified by the user).
Here is the list with default settings for the Anyma Phi:
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Up to 2 CC message can be mixed to control Expression Control A/B/C/D which means you can have an easy 5 parameters setup.
Keep in mind most of the time in the factory patches Expression is used and Control A (which is assigned to Morph), you would have to add some mappings to the patches to map Control B, C and D to any parameter that you would find interesting to control.

Hello

You should be able to download latest Linux version from here:
http://downloads.aodyo.com/anymaphi/anymaphi-linux.zip

@Ksavi
Brancher un Nanokey2 sur l'USB host? Oui c'est possible. En tout cas, il alimente très bien mon Joué.

Compatible MPE? Non, c'est un synthétiseur monophonique, le MPE n'a pas d’intérêt en soi. Est-ce que ça peut prendre les données d'expression (CC74, pitch-bend 48 semitons, aftertouch) en single channel? Absolument!!! J'ai plusieurs contrôleurs MPE et ils fonctionnent comme un charme en single channel ou via un channel merger.
En fait c'est même mieux, le synthé peux prendre un CC comme données d'expression et remplacer la vélocité. C'est particulièrement utile pour les simulations d' instruments à vents ou à cordes.

Le piezo interne est mono et peut moduler n'importe quoi dans le système. Directement comme source audio à "pinger" dans un résonateur. Ou convertir en courbe de vélocité/expression avec l'enveloppe follower. J'utilise deux microphones contact pas cher. Chacun sur un canal L ou R et tu peux contrôler deux oscillateurs/sources indépendantes de cette façon. C'est très flexible. Tu peux programmer des seuils de déclenchement où un micro trigge un oscilateur à fort volume et juste passe dans un résonateur à faible volume. Le pitch peut être associé indépendamment via l'arp ou un séquenceur (ou n'importe quoi...).

Et le synthé peut être paraphonique dans une certaine mesure.

Bref il y a de quoi s'amuser... La seule limite est ton immagination et la charge cpu...

@laurent_aodyo
Bonsoir,

c'est ce que j'ai fait, merci pour votre retour.

@zelio This has always been possible under macOS. Most people with this issue are using Windows drivers that present this limitation.

In a future update we could maybe consider having a separate USB-MIDI device port dedicated to the editor (or if not possible at least let you dedicate an existing port to editor communication, which would prevent the port from being used for MIDI routing).
In the meantime you can leave the first USB-MIDI device port to the editor, and use the MIDI DIN ports for your DAW, as @frank suggested.

Hi @peter-ostry

The Midi channels will be different for each note played, the CC are fixed
And since the Phi is in omni receive mode, all channels will be received.

since the Phi is monophonic one has to adapt the playing style to single notes,

Unles you wat to create a 4 voice or 8 voice Anyma Phi. Like Oberheim did with the 4 voice and 8 voice machine, constructed with 4 to 8 SEM modules. Will be interesting !!

I whish i had the funds to create such a machine

Kind regards

Frank

I’ve been using a 3 meter lead for some time. I find it’s always the case the shortest lead is provided.

Hello.

a) Using external USB midi controller to play or remote control the Anyma Phi is the reason why we integrated a USB Host plug. Only thing to know is that we didn't had the chance to check every MIDI controller with the Anyma Phi but any class compliant USB MIDI controller should work.
We tested the Korg Nanostudio which is a superset of Korg Nanokey2.

b) MPE compatibility
As a monophonic synth, the Anyma Phi is not really MPE compatible but can be setup to behave as one MPE voice

c) yes adaptation of all the patch is possible to use the Piezo as a note trigger instead of external MIDI device

Hope this make things clear to you

@zelio Thanks.. I see it... I will play around with it.... Cheers

Hello,

This is explained on page 56 of the user manual.

Select the patch you want to copy using the display encoder. Press the display encoder and scroll down to Patch/Copy Select the patch number you want to copy the patch to Press the display encoder and scroll down to Patch/Paste

Hope this helps

Here:

https://aodyo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/factory-patch-anyma-phi.zip

And you would get 30 instead of 20

Please send us a mail to support@aodyo.com, with the version of the Anyma Phi firmware you're using, as well as the exact version of Windows and as much detail on your hardware as possible.

+1 :) This would be very useful !

@join ... wow thanks 4 that fast and comprehensive answer about my first comment..

my second comment about phy editor
please make something with update of the editor

if i didn't explain my proposal comprehensively I'll try again

Please send an email to support@aodyo.com about this and include pictures of the entire Diagnostics screen, which is located at the bottom of the Settings menu.

@join
Hi,
Thanks for your response. It looks like the issue was that you need to turn "scale" up as well as the amount for it to work.

OK, thank you for the reply.

@join Thank you.

@join

I did some more testing and I'm sure it is coming form Phi. Out both phones and L and R out. I tried reducing both FX on the patch but it is still crackling. I'll try to get the MIDI exported from the Deluge so you can see. I can also provide a sound file if you wish.

Wow, that's fantastic - the most incredible update ever. It would take a lifetime to try all these functions!

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@bibenu You're welcome :)

@join I see it (just upgraded). Thank you :)

@tsukaï-ban Comme l'a dit @bibenu, une recalibration pourrait améliorer les choses. D'ailleurs, si vous pouviez noter les valeurs qui étaient présentes dans l'écran de calibration, ça me serait bien utile ! Merci.