Glad to see the issue resolved. For new Sylphyo owners: once you receive it, it's safer to let it charge overnight before using it!

You just have to slightly "unscrew" and pull the mouthpiece from the Sylphyo at the same time. The blue ring might stay attached to the body. To put the mouthpiece back again, just push it gently but tightly.

Je ne suis pas un expert des applis musicales iOS, mais je crois qu'en termes de réalisme et de qualité de son ce que tu trouveras sera très loin derrière des instruments virtuels du genre SWAM/Samplemodeling.
Je sais que ça ne répond pas exactement à ta question, mais ces instruments virtuels peuvent tourner sur une tablette Windows (même celles d'entrée de gamme, on en parle un peu ici), donc ça peut être une solution envisageable si tes objectifs principaux sont la mobilité et la qualité du son.

Toutefois, ce n'est pas une solution idéale pour ce qui est de la facilité d'utilisation et de l'interopérabilité avec d'autres applis géniales sur l'iPad…

N'hésite pas à partager tes retours d'expérience, je pense que ça peut intéresser pas mal de monde !

So, basically, just by removing the left index finger you would go to the upper octave? It sounds good.

I guess you'll have to wait until the 1.1.0 release to determine whether the shake vibrato is OK for you or not (or mail us at contact@aodyo.com to be part of the beta program and we'll send a beta quickly).
If it's not OK we could try your proposed solution for vibrato, but it'd be specific to the Celtic fingering, so a bit more complicated for us to put together and explain in our documentation materials.
If I understand correctly, you'd like to perform a vibrato by repeatedly tapping the right pinky key (K8), with a fixed drop in pitch (around 10%), am I correct?

You can already order additional mouthpieces at our retailers (e.g., at Thomann), but you're right that there should be another approach when our active mouthpiece is available, else it'll be way too expensive :).

It's too soon to give you details on our solution to this problem for the active mouthpiece, but the idea of 3D printing a cover at home is interesting.

In fact 3D printing an entire (passive) mouthpiece is also quite interesting because you can experiment with different shapes, but I guess it's a bit more complicated, as the design must prevent leakage inside the instrument (you can see ours has a gasket). I'm really not an expert on this, but @doul might be able to correct me and offer you more insight on these issues.

A nice vibrato will land in version 1.1.0 in a few weeks. You'll be able to control both timing and amplitude with this, just by very slightly shaking your Sylphyo away and back towards the mouth. We thoroughly enjoy it and it really adds expression to even the simplest sounds. We'll post a video soon to show it in action.

For the extended celtic fingering, could you please explain a bit more what kind of enhancement you'd like to make on it?

You can use our notation to describe fingerings: for instance, XoooOoooO is the fingering where I only press the octave key, and all other keys are non-pressed (we use x for a pressed key, and o for a non-pressed key).
It'll make things clearer for everyone, and it's the exact notation we use to generate the code for the fingerings, so it's quicker for us to integrate your proposal.

The order of keys is:

• whether any octave key (K0) is pressed (X) or not (O);
• whether the left index key (K1) is pressed (x) or not (o);
• whether the left middle key (K2) is pressed (x) or not (o);
• whether the left ring key (K3) is pressed (x) or not (o);
• whether the left pinky key (K4; the one a bit to the left) is pressed (X) or not (O);
• whether the right index key (K5) is pressed (x) or not (o);
• whether the right middle key (K6) is pressed (x) or not (o);
• whether the right ring key (K7) is pressed (x) or not (o);
• whether the right pinky key (K8; the one a bit to the right) is pressed (X) or not (O).

À propos du Sylphyo et des tablettes Windows, on en parle aussi dans un autre sujet (en anglais, par contre) où ont été testées une tablette comparable à la Surface Pro et une tablette à 100€. Vous pourrez y trouver quelques conseils sur la meilleure façon de paramétrer vos logiciels.

Envoyez bien votre vidéo et votre configuration (ainsi que vos remarques ultérieures) directement par mail à support@aodyo.com : nous y serons plus à l'aise pour discuter que sur un forum public.

Pour votre problème, le fait qu'il puisse aussi arriver sur un EWI me fait dire que la technologie capacitive a peut-être du mal avec vos doigts (on cherche des gens comme vous pour améliorer nos capteurs :)). Veuillez essayer la version 1.0.2 du logiciel interne du Sylphyo qui devrait améliorer la détection des doigts de certaines personnes au niveau des touches de jeu.

Nous serions intéressés d'en savoir plus au niveau des autres problèmes que vous décrivez (touches d'octave), mais là encore je pense qu'il serait plus approprié de passer par support@aodyo.com. On attend votre mail !

C'est un problème dont nous n'avons jamais entendu parler, mais je ne suis pas sûr de comprendre exactement de quoi il s'agit…

Pouvez-vous SVP nous envoyer une vidéo du phénomène (s'il est facilement reproductible) par mail à support@aodyo.com, ainsi que la version du logiciel interne et votre numéro de série ?

I don't know of any video that clearly shows someone using a Samplemoding VSTi with slider-controlled manual vibrato. I suggest you wait for the next software release and the batch of videos that'll accompany it to see if it can suit your needs.

For now, people make do with a CC-controlled automatic vibrato, or with completely manual vibrato (which can be difficult to do quickly with our recommended approach due to the different muscle groups used depending on the fingering), but we're committed to design the best solution we can.

The next minor release (1.1.0) will include a usable way to easily control vibrato. The shake-vibrato gesture won't look ridiculous because it's subtle, nevertheless it seems to visually communicate musical intent quite well (e.g., shaky gestures that lead to a shaky sound). There'll also be a slider-controlled vibrato with a EWI-like behavior, but I personally think it's better to use the slider for other things (bends and modulation).

We didn't include a bite sensor because we wanted to nail the breath sensor first, but we designed the Sylphyo so that the mouthpiece can be changed, and eventually replaced with one that includes sensors (it'll work with all existing Sylphyos). We're trying some alternatives to the bite sensor that'll even be able to provide other dimensions of control (e.g. vocoder-style filtering related to your vocal tract) that can bring life to novel uses. But it's a work-in-progress and we're already busy updating the Sylphyo and developing the synth module for the next few months.

You guessed right, we're doing it incrementally, with the combined feedback and expertise of all our users and testers, and although for some people the Sylphyo isn't quite there yet, we really think it's the right approach in the long run.