@clint This is a great video and represents the Sylphyo very well indeed! Thank you very much for the appreciation you have for our instrument @Clint !

@milododds There are many creative solutions for crafting Bell Port plugs! (Make sure they are removable and won't damage the plastic in the bell of the instrument)

PLA = Polylactic Acid, a common thermoplastic polymer used for filament material in 3D printing.

@paul-flute Yes you can have a lot of Sylphyo and Links in the same room, as each connection uses a separate channel.

Thanks for the suggestion! Duly noted.

@paul-flute Anyone experienced with MidiFire software?

@clint said in Floor Stand:

Another concern is that the internal airway of my Sylphyo does not appear to be "sealed". If I block the bell port completely and breathe gently through the mouthpiece, air freely escapes ... to ?someplace?. It is not escaping from around the mouthpiece, so it must be going someplace in the body of the instrument.

I found the answer to this one: I was actually doing the test with the mouthpiece removed - I was breathing into the blue collar. In this setup, the air does escape (from under the blue collar?).

When I install the mouthpiece and close the bell port with my finger, all is tightly sealed - only a miniscule amount of air seems to escape ... barely noticable.

@reidid789 It's a favorite post of mine!

This issue seems to be fixed in the latest RC13.7 release (dated 7/18/2021). (I was actually using an earlier RC13.7 version dated 7/11/2021 when I had these issues).

I can now increase the Breath Rate on the Sylphyo all the way up to Max with no apparent problems.

Loving the Sylphyo + XpressO combination!

@clint This is awesome, you've just given me an idea. I'm going to run down to Home Depot and get a piece of black ABS pipe with caps and create a small case while using some grey foam to go around the Sylphyo. It's one of those instruments you just want to take to the park or out into the woods. This way it will be waterproof let alone can absorb shock if accidently dropped.

@lux Please try a factory reset from the menu.

@clint Dear Clint
I am an amateur musician, my instruments, are clarinet and saxophones. I have decided to digitize my musical exercises for reasons of time. SYLFYO instruments are easy to learn fingering?. Could you send me the fingering you currently use to play the Bb clarinet with SYLPHYO? I’II leave you my email. I would be really grateful to you. In your opinion which is the best aerophone instrument to digitize the clarinet sound? Thanks. Best regards.
My email: ar.bersani@alice.it

Armando Bersani

Dear Rick Novy,

I am an amateur musician, my instruments, are clarinet and saxophones. I have decided to digitize my musical exercises for reasons of time. SYLFYO instruments is easy to learn fingering?. Could you send me the fingering you currently use to play the Bb clarinet with SYLPHYO? I’II leave you my email. I would be really grateful to you. In your opinion which is the best aerophone instrument to digitize the clarinet sound? Thanks. Best regards.
My email: ar.bersani@alice.it

Armando Bersani

Dear Javier

I am an amateur musician, my instruments, are clarinet and saxophones. I have decided to digitize my musical exercises for reasons of time. SYLFYO instruments is easy to learn fingering?. Could you send me the fingering you currently use to play the Bb clarinet with SYLPHYO? I’II leave you my email. I would be really grateful to you. In your opinion which is the best aerophone instrument to digitize the clarinet sound? Thanks. Best regards.
My email: ar.bersani@alice.it

Armando Bersani

@peter-ostry Ah yes of course... Thank you. (again)

@wx-is-dead Sure email me for contact. breathsound@yahoo.com

I've sent you a message about this! I'd be happy to help you out with discovering the Sylphyo

BTW, on stage you can hang the Sylphyo with the neck strap on a microphone stand or something else and don't need a stand for it. I've done that with a WX5 all the time and find it more secure than a bottom stand. Of course you want a nice long hook mounted to the stand. In good ol' days next to cup holder and ashtray, today under the iPad clamp.

Armando, I've sent you an email that should answer your request.

@armando-bersani You can find all the information regarding fingering on our manual here: https://www.aodyo.com/user-manual-page-en-21.html#section-fingerings.clarinet

Changing the instrument to Sib is then just a simple switching the base key from Do (C) to Sib (Bb). I hope this helps!

Per clarinetto in Si bemolle. Grazie mille. Cordiali saluti

@armando-bersani My font package is a "work in progress" ... a nice way of saying it is incomplete. The clarinet fingerings (and most other instruments) have yet to be implemented. An initial version of sax fingerings is in the v1.008 release.

The idea of the font package is to allow you to easily type finger diagrams in documents, web pages, etc. Some people do use a text-based approach ... such as <xxxx|xooo ... where the "<" indicates the mouthpiece and the "|" indicates the split between the upper and lower hand. However, a vector-based font such as TrueType or OpenType is much more appealing.

The initial v1.008 of the Sylphyo fonts was a trial put out for testing and comments. And I have had many good comments, some of which suggest a re-design of the entire font package.

In particular, there was a suggestion to use the advanced features of OpenType to actually allow someone to type <xxxx|xooo ... and have the font itself provide a substitution which would allow applications (those that implement those advanced OpenType features) automatically change that <xxxx|xooo into a single finger diagram from the font. As it stands now, you have to locate the correct Unicode code point and enter it by hand, which is lot of work.

Another issue (for me) is how the Sylphyo fonts would be integrated with my existing font packages (see www.Kurinto.com and the Native Flute fonts at www.Flutopedia.com/fonts.htm).

There have been many other worthwhile suggestions (some of them above), the bulk of which expand the scope of this project (for me) significantly. I honestly have not had the impetus to undertake this larger project as we have been on the road for an extended trip (across Southern Europe - with the Sylphyo and a full recording rig - all worked beautifully!).

If people in this community are eager for this font project to move forward ... please make a note in this thread and it might provide encouragement for me to move forward with this project ...

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on le trouve aussi chez Amazon
the fan was purchased on Discount
it is also found at Amazon

It turned out to be not too difficult to find the mathematical explanation of the "vertical yaw" response. In fact it is sitting in plain sight in the standard expressions describing 3-dimensional spatial rotations. Indeed, the response is the sum of two terms, which could be send over separate MIDI channels.

Ian

@support_aodyo

I look forward playing

I hope i can in this way play more in tune, get better nuances ..

I cannot get hold of Bruce Kanzelmeier : Maybe somebody can give him a hint to look here?

Kind regards

Frank

@friedus

Please note : if you think you play much better after Basaltfeuer intake, you have taken too much.

If you take more, one definitely sees the burning of basalt..

Regards

Frank

@steviek That just sounds like you had both the Link and the Integra plugged in to your mixer/sound card, nothing strange. Please do a demo! We'd love to hear how it sounds.

@support_aodyo
Checked again and disabled the Sylphyo's movement CCs. Really cannot tell what is going on. Stuck notes, changing/losing the Sylphyo's internal sound (I mix with the Link's stereo input) and weird behavior overall. Turned everything off and on in different order – no change. Turned everything off, went back to direct MIDI connection and it worked fine.

Never mind. I believe some devilish ghost in a parallel universe prevents me from using USB hosts. A Keith McMillen host did not work here. A Kenton USB host didn't. Why should the Link do. I blame the ghost ;-)

MIDI over DIN works well, I will use this.

@daniel57 Merci Daniel pour ce partage d'expérience.
Mon doigté a aussi évolué et je me suis rapproché de la perpendicularité...
Par contre, l'accès aux octaves +3...beaucoup de "couac" encore...

Bravo Jcfitn et merci pour le partage.
Daniel

@support_aodyo Excellent insight and info ... Thanks!!

@clint yes! thanks for the tip, I will take a look to this soft, I was searching something for Linux (my main/audio system), and I didn't found, I will try to bridge this program.

The avantege to have something buld in is using hardware synth or raspberry that now is a chose for a lot of musiciens in live situation (better than have a "real" computer conected).

@steviek Hello! You need to change the buffer size in Logic Pro and Mainstage. Set it as low as possible so that you don't get any CPU overload and reduce the latency.
If you have a powerful computer you can get away with settings like 64 or even 32. If you also reduce the sampling rate (down to something like 44.1khz) that should also help with latency as you will then be able to reduce the buffer size.

I hope this helps!

Cool idea for using tilt! At the moment it would be a bit difficult for us to implement but we can keep it in mind for the future.

@jcfitn Merci, très utile ! Je regarde ça :-)

@ijfritz I'm happy it was usefull!

A discovery I made about 40 years ago is that it works really, really well to use a longer reaction time for any interval that involves a register key. It doesn’t seem to hinder performance significantly — presumably, as woodwind players we learn to anticipate the extra delay.

Ian

Thank you Clint, I'm brand new with electronic wind controller. Right now I use Logic Pro and I'll check your suggestion as soon as possible.

Thanks for the answer.

Perfect, I will try that.
Thanks to CSP and Aodyo Support

@Support_AODYO
Extrait du mode d’emploi du Sylphyo : « Plus tard, vous pourrez également acheter un bec actif avec des capteurs qui vous donneront encore plus de contrôle sur le son »

Même s’il n’est pas en développement actuellement, comptez-vous travailler et sortir un jour ce bec actif ?

@palsyl No news yet, but we are still working on it and will be sure to send out an update as soon as we can say everything with certainty!