@Peter-Ostry Thanks Peter ... excellent perspective.

Since I'm using the hydrophilic inserts in the Sylphyo mouthpieces, there is significantly less moisture internally. I don't recall ever getting the "dripping out the bottom" syndrome since I started using them.

@Peter-Ostry said in Sylphyo v1.6.0 update:

do not cover the small rectangular slot.

Why?

I specifically cover that hole to prevent moisture from entering ... Even bought a glue gun and learned how to apply hot glue for just this purpose ... There are messages in this forum discussing this issue.

@join I've installed 1.6.0 on one Sylphyo-Link pair, and it checks out AOK from all the perspective I can think of ...

The New sounds are appreciated. I've always used the Link's internal sounds as backups to the VL70, CraftSynth, and Tooro, but I'm now using them more and more. Kalinka was a wonderful addition, and the I'm sure the new sounds will be put to use. The Cylysax and Melodyion are noticeably more quiet, but now that I'm using a mixer with MIDI control I can set the gain on the Link immediately with a song change without having to "fiddle" with knobs. (I've moved from a laptop-based setup to a Push3S + hardware setup, so all sounds are now "hardware" generated - a big improvement in reliability and latency and workability).

Of course, I am sad to hear about the financial situation, and hope that (no, make that "Know that") everyone in the company will land on their feet. You all have produced the most fantastic wind controller that I could have imagined, and it has greatly enriched my musical universe.

I'm guessing this forum will continue to live (for a while, at least) and I hope that there will be postings about possibilities for maintenance of our instruments down the road ...

@Peter-Ostry It is shrink-wrap tubing that holds the labels in place, so they don't peel off during handling or in the shipping cases. I use a Brother PTD600VP label maker and have a whole range of label sizes and colors. Some labels I place on the face of units stay firm, but the ones wrapped on cables tend to fall off. The 3:1 (shrink ratio) clear shrink wrap tubing keeps them nicely in place (although they are a bit thick). Clear tape on the cables never seemed to work well and the adhesive tends to get messy.

Here are some shots from Tuesday evening's concert setup (which went smashingly well):

@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!!

And here's my setup for tomorrow night's concert ... 90 minutes total setup out of our shipping cases ...

This is, of course, the "old" daisy-chain rig setup.

@Peter-Ostry Amazing ... outstanding ... and why can't I click a "17 stars" button?

I have made heavy use of Bome MIDI Translator (BMT) when I was laptop-based, so I don't anticipate issues programming the BomeBox in this new setup.

You did answer one pending question - to get a monster interface such as an iConnectivity mioXL (19" rack unit) or a much leaner USB hub plus smaller MIDI interface. The VL70 is primary for me, so I do need to be aware of any additional latency ... but I think your proposed setup wins out (after taking stock of how many of my units talk MIDI over USB vs the few units that only speak DIN or TRS MIDI).

Thanks SO MUCH!

@Peter-Ostry Extremely helpful! Thanks so much. I have a lot to consider ...

One of my main considerations is that this is a road (or "road-able") rig. In fact, we start a weeklong workshop this evening, and have a concerts Tues and Thursday evenings. The less costly and less delicate gear is shipped directly to the venue, and I carry the delicate stuff (Sylphyo, Push 3S, and physical flutes) in carry-on.

So ... the simplicity and convenience of sending the Push 3 USB to the Link and using it as a merge (and also for the Push 3 to power the Link) seemed to work really well.

I do have a hookup diagram for my current (daisy-chained) rig, but not yet for the newly envisioned Bome Box / star configuration rig. Here's the current rig (including my home recording setup and my home-based sound system):

I'm wondering if there is a way to control the channels that the Synth in the Link responds to.

I've changed over the last year from laptop-based to more hardware-based, using a Push 3S to do my background in solo shows with the Sylphyo controlling a flock of live synths (VL70, CraftSynth2, Tooro, etc). Works great.

One issue is that, in my current MIDI daisy-chain setup, all the live synths get all the SysEx sent by the Push3S, I will be adding a Bome Box and moving to a MIDI star configuration rather than a daisy-chain. SysEx generation will be done by the Bome Box rather than the Push3 - the Push3 will only send a Note on or PC on an appropriate channel to trigger the Bome Box to send the appropriate SysEx.

However, the MIDI path is Push3S => Link => Bome Box => mioXL MIDI interface which will split out to all my synths. The Bome Box will only send to the appropriate synth, but the Link is before the Bome Box in the MIDI chain ... so ... I think it will still be responding to all channels of Push3 output.

What I would like is for the Link to forward everything coming in on the USB-Mini-B port to the DIN5 Out port, but not have its own Synth be affected by Notes sent by the Push3.

Is there any way to control this?

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 ...