What did you hope to use the mouthpiece for? The Sylphyo has evolved a lot in two years. Have you tried shake vibrato and doing pitch-bends using the slider?

As our mouthpiece project is still in the research phase, it is best not to expect it in the near future, sorry. For now our development focus in on an editor for the internal sounds.

We have had another report of this issue but haven't had enough returns to determine if there are particular settings that aggravate or mitigate the issue. Do you have an XpressO? If so, a trace from a MIDI monitor utility demonstrating the double notes would be very helpful.

Beaucoup de gens utilisent les 2 octaves supplémentaires, ce qui est déjà plus confortable.
Si vous souhaitez essayer une version bêta qui permet d'avoir le système qui était disponible avant (9 octaves en tout, au moins 5 si vous n'utilisez que les trois touches d'octave), n'hésitez pas à nous envoyer un petit mail à support@aodyo.com !

C'est une fonction qui n'est plus officiellement présente depuis la version 1.0.0 ! Nous l'avions retirée car elle était difficile à utiliser de manière fiable, mais nous pourrions envisager de la remettre en "version bêta" par exemple…

The latency thing is something we cannot reproduce.
Could you please confirm that it is still there even after a factory reset?

If it's still there, the usual thing to do for diagnostics is to use MIDI monitor software and try to see if there is a significant delay between an action on the controller and new data being displayed on the screen. It would be very helpful if you could test your Sylphyo+Link using a MIDI monitor (see this article for help), ideally showing us a video of the delay.

Did you try the official 1.3.1 version from our website as well? There are some differences compared to 1.3.1b2.

From what I understand you'd like to know more about the Sylphyo's unique features and you found our communication lacking in this regard. I hope this post will help you understand the product better, and we will try to communicate better on our product in the future.

First of all, the Sylphyo and the EWI take quite different stances at what makes a good electronic wind instrument. This should not be surprising, as in the acoustic world there are many very different and equally successful designs for a wind instrument too.
What sets the Sylphyo apart from the EWI is that it is designed to fit a wider range of playing styles, notably those of non-reed woodwinds players (more on that later), and to provide greater and more intimate control over electronic sounds.

Several features of the instrument contribute to its design intent. First, as air flows all the way through the instrument, the sensation while playing is much more "acoustic-like", and it allows a greater range of breath control techniques, while retaining the possibility to feel "closed" like an EWI. Then, there are techniques like "key-bend" and "shake vibrato" that are borrowed from some types of flutes. And as an extension of that, the Sylphyo also reacts to gestures on its back surface (the slider) and in the air (elevation, roll, compass control) thanks to its lighter weight. With time and practice it allows you to get much more timbral variations out of your sounds. This is what the Sylphyo aims at: intimate, physical, instrument-like control of your electronic sounds. As they're relatively novel, such features might look like "gadget gimmicks" if you don't think about the instrument as a whole, but videos like the Chat with Pedro series will show you how far you can go with it in a professional setting (of course we'd like to have more videos like this, but the product is still very young and not widespread).

As for the latency issue that popped up recently, this is very likely an individual issue having to do with the specific setup within which the Sylphyo is used. The Sylphyo itself is demonstrably one of the lowest latency controllers out there, even with the wireless option.

The Sylphyo was a wireless MIDI wind controller until around September 2018, where we made two important changes:

• We added an internal sound engine inside the Sylphyo itself.
• We changed the wireless receiver to make it a wireless audio/MIDI receiver.

So what do the internal sounds sound like? There's a pretty long overview of the seven first sounds, and the user guide has an up-to-date description of each sound, along with an accompanying video.
As you have seen, the internal sounds do not aim for realistic reproduction of acoustic sounds. This is for several reasons. First, it is extremely difficult to reproduce the sonic behavior of an acoustic instrument, and it's very computationally intensive, so much so that it'd be really costly to integrate into a mobile battery-powered instrument (and the battery wouldn't last long). We're planning to provide sounds with much acoustically-inspired behavior, but we're not aiming at reproducing some specific acoustic instrument. And the more important reason why we don't do that is that we feel the real power of the Sylphyo lies on the way you can control electronic sounds with it, so it'd be a waste to sacrifice all that control for realism. Acoustic-style rich behavior, that's a better thing to aim at in our opinion.
We're planning to gradually add more sounds and we're currently working on an editor that allows anyone to make presets with the elements of the sound engine we've developed.

Maybe you'll come to the conclusion that there's nothing appealing to you with the Sylphyo. No big deal. People have different needs and it would be a bad idea to try to fulfill them all with a single product! If you just want a more recent version of your EWI and nothing else, then it's likely the Sylphyo will not suit you and that's OK! But if you're looking for something different, the Sylphyo is definitely an instrument to consider.

You'll find some technical details in the user guide, but the best place to get answers is to ask us or our community, either here, in the Sylphyo Exchange Facebook group, or privately (contact@aodyo.com).

Avec le Sylphyo, vous ne contrôlez qu'une note à la fois. Cependant, comme vous avez pu le voir avec certains de nos sons, rien n'empêche le synthé derrière d'être réglé pour faire sonner un accord ! Donc tout dépend du son interne ou du synthé que vous utilisez.

Si vous jouez en USB-MIDI avec un PC, vous pouvez intercaler un effet MIDI entre votre instrument virtuel (VSTi, AU ou autre) et l'entrée MIDI du Sylphyo, par exemple l'effet Chord d'Ableton Live, ou bien un effet VST comme Cthulhu. Du coup, la façon de jouer un certain type d'accord ou d'intervalle peut être différente pour chaque cas.

La version sans Link est filaire, dans le sens où il faut lui brancher soit un câble mini-jack (pour les sons internes), soit un câble USB (pour la connexion au PC). Plus tard vous pouvez transformer votre Sylphyo filaire en sans-fil juste en achetant le boîtier Link seul.

Pour ce qui est des revendeurs entre Brive et Toulouse, je ne sais pas mais je laisse @Matthico vous apporter une réponse.

Sa dénomination n'arrête pas de changer au fil des versions mais c'est bien un adaptateur Lightning d'un côté et USB A femelle de l'autre, avec une mention d'appareil photo dans le nom (c'était à quoi l'adaptateur servait à ses debuts, d'ailleurs appareil photo se dit "camera" en anglais).

La notice du Sylphyo offre une section sur l'utilisation avec iOS et elle comporte notamment un lien vers le site d'Apple où il est possible d'acheter directement l'adaptateur qu'il faut. Pour être certain d'avoir affaire à un adaptateur officiel, c'est là qu'il faut commander (ou dans un magasin grand public qui vend des produits Apple). Les commandes sur Amazon comportent toujours une part de risque quant à l'authenticité des produits.