@TheSongSystem said in Prospective user with questions:

@Peter-Ostry thank you for such an informative and helpful reply.

Despite your worries about Aodyo beating you for it, your perspective has actually made me want the Sylphyo and Anyma Phi even more.

To begin with, while I mostly play clarinet, I've dabbled with recorder and ocarina too, and enjoy these lighter airflows (and if it can be put in competition with electric guitar levels, even better!). It's the natural connection between the breath and the instrument that I'm looking for, which it sounds like Sylphyo has in abundance.

Also, thanks for checking out my YouTube channel. I'm actually looking to have two sides to my output, the "natural" interface of the acoustic clarinet through pedals and the "digital" via wind controller. So the synthetic quality of the Anyma Phi isn't a problem, but a advantage.

Just to clarify a couple of things: You mention the Sylphyo having both sideways roll and compass (sideways angle) - these are two different things? Also, you mention the Sylphyo sounds being the "smaller", medium synthetic versions of sounds that Anyma Phi does better. Does this mean that the same preset sounds are in both devices, at different resolution levels, or am I misunderstanding?

I've been looking into some of the other sound sources you mention, and am noticing that the Anyma Phi seems to straddle the line between a digital pedal and synth software. Would agree with this observation? This might be exactly what I need.

Also, I will be taking your advice and getting the link too. My thanks again.

@TheSongSystem
Roll control is rotating or rolling the Sylphyo, clockwise or anticlockwise in your hands, compass control is turning to face in a different direction.
The second part of this Aodyo video shows the player rolling the Sylphyo.
Please read section "2.6 Elevation, roll and compass control" in the Sylphyo user guide for an explanation of the differences between roll and compass control.
I would also recommend that you look at the rest of section "2 Playing the Sylphyo" which is also very helpful.

@ebo You're welcome.
My Link shows up in the MIDI Studio window of the Audio MIDI Setup app, on my Mac as "Sylphyo Link" when the Link is plugged in to my Mac via the Link's "USB power supply" mini USB socket and switched on. Have you tried using the same USB to mini USB cable which successfully updated your Sylphyo? If you are still getting nowhere then contact Aodyo support via email. They'll probably want the Link's serial number off the sticker on it's base.

Link to Sylphyo and Link updates page.

@shannon Yes, an all white battery symbol means fully charged.

Did you buy the wireless Link receiver with the Sylphyo?
If your Sylphyo doesn’t find your Link, it will display the ((?)) icon.

https://aodyo.com/sylphyo-user-guide/#section-link.pairing

@zsylvie Sylphyo Artists on Aodyo's web site?
Maybe Pedro Eustache?

@fanch35
Thank you.
You'll have to ask other folks about your PC with Windows 10. I don't own that type of computer so I cannot help.

@fanch35
In Phase 3, to get Respiro's sound out of the Link's "Phones" socket, connect an audio lead from the PC's audio out socket to the Link's "Line In" socket.

Regarding, "Clint' reference : why don't I get sounds from "A@L" out with signals S' ?". This connection is MIDI data only (and power over USB). No audio over USB.

@fanch35
In Phase1, there should be no sound coming out of the Link's "Phones" socket when "Silent (MIDI Ctrl)" is selected as the sound on the Sylphyo.

The "Silent (MIDI Ctrl)" sound was part of Sylphyo Firmware update 1.4.8

As you probably know, the Link has its own synthesiser "sound engine" chip. The wireless link between the Sylphyo and the Link is for data only. No analogue audio sound is sent from the Sylphyo to the Link. When the sound is changed at the Sylphyo, a program change, data message is sent wirelessly over to the Link where the Link's synth chip gets set to the same sound as on the Sylphyo. The volume of the sound output from the Link's synth chip matches the volume set at the Sylphyo.

Both the Sylphyo and the Link need to be running Sylphyo Firmware update 1.4.8. Your Link may be running an earlier firmware version? Hence this is why you hear a sound from the Link's "Phones" socket rather than silence.
The Sylphyo Firmware update 1.4.8 also contained two other new sounds in addition to Silent (MIDI Ctrl), Synthbrass 80's and Resozen.
I suggest that you select either Synthbrass 80's or Resozen on the Sylphyo and check whether you hear these particular sounds coming out from the Link's "Phones" socket? If not, then you'll need to update the firmware in the Link to Sylphyo Firmware update 1.4.8. Available at this link on Aodyo's web site.

On my own Sylphyo and Link, which I know are running Sylphyo Firmware update 1.4.8, I hear no sound in my headphones connected to the Link's "Phones" socket when I have the Silent (MIDI Ctrl) sound selected on my Sylphyo.

@join Perhaps Aodyo might help the folks creating the Photon mouthpiece project?
Could the Sylphyo's firmware be amended so that the the Photon could be connected into the Sylphyo's mini-USB socket?
Maybe the Photon's MIDI data stream could be merged into the Sylphyo's MIDI wireless data stream flowing over to the Sylphyo Link box?
USB power out of the Sylphyo's mini-USB to power the Photon would be good too?
Here's a YouTube video of an early prototype Photon mouthpiece being used with a Sylphyo. The sound is coming from the Respiro software synth.
Youtube Video