@Chris That sounds quite strange! If you power it off after using it it should not go into the deep discharge state unless left at a very low battery level and/or not used for several days or weeks.
Let me know once you've charged it for a day or two if it keeps going back into the deep discharge state without being powered on in which case you may need to return it for an exchange.
We will definitely consider this solution :)
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
Aodyo.com
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your message. The Sylphyo runs out of power completely if you leave it powered on for too long, past the point where the screen shows a message that you need to charge your instrument.
This leads to a deep discharge state in which the instrument needs to be charged very slowly over a period of up to 48 hours in order to work again. This is done to preserve the battery as charging it too quickly from a deep discharge state could cause it damage.
My advice to you is to not leave your Sylphyo on for prolonged periods and to charge it once you are done using it. The battery should last around 6 hours, and unless you leave it on to go into deep discharge, should only take a few hours to charge.
Let me know if I can be of more help!
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
Aodyo.com
@reff Let us know if you try it we are curious about this!
Do the sounds work well with Sylphyo ?
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@palsyl Hello and thanks for your question! The Flute Phi sound is a physical model of a flute, so is designed to sound quite similar to an acoustic flute, including the breath noise.
I will pass along your request and see what we can do.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
Hi Rick thanks for posting on the community forum with your support queries. Did you have a chance to try the fixes I suggested, namely updating your Sylphyo to version 1.4.7? Let me know if this fixes the problem.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@fluterer Hello, no you are correct the Flute Phi does not (yet!) respond to pitch bend as that had some unforeseen side effects on the sound. We are still working on that and it is part of the growing process for our new Physical Modelling sound engine.
Let me know if I can be of any more help!
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
Nous transformons le forum pour le diviser en deux catégories : Général et Support, et nous rassemblons les communautés Francophones et Anglophones.
La catégorie Général sert à toutes discussions liées au Sylphyo, en Anglais ou en Français.
Si vous voulez recevoir de l’aide de manière publique, vous pouvez mettre un post dans la catégorie Support et nous vous répondrons rapidement. Cela donnera aussi une chance aux autres utilisateurs de retrouver leurs problèmes avant de créer leurs propres posts.
Vous pouvez également continuer à nous contacter en privée sur support@aodyo.com si vous le désirez.
À bientôt !
L'équipe Aodyo
We are changing the current community forum to be divided into two categories : General and Support, and merging the French and English communities together.
The General category is for any discussions related to Sylphyo, in English or French.
If you feel comfortable and would like to help out with support queries in a public manner, please feel free to post your problems directly under the Support category and we will answer promptly. This will also give other users a chance to find their problems on a public forum before posting themselves.
You can of course still contact us privately at support@aodyo.com, but please consider posting publicly first if you are comfortable.
See you soon!
The Aodyo Team
To follow up on this, in the next few hours we will release version 1.4.7 which introduces two new sounds based on our physical modelling technology.
On top of this, the reverb is now able to be changed again through the sound menu.
Let me know as always if you have any questions.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
Aodyo.com
Thanks for the info I'll pass this along to the dev team and we will see what we can do.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@MusicOne Hello. We have right now an internal beta which has gone out to a few users which contains new sounds as well as the functionality to turn off the reverb. This should go live in the coming days. Please excuse us for the delay, the ongoing situation with covid has made work difficult but we continue and will release a lot more in the future!
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@mwebster Hello! Thanks for your questions.
Here is how I've set mine up: For the slide you can turn on the keybend on the Sylphyo (which will act like a pitch bend + and set it in SWAM software to your desired bend effect (I find that + and - 3 works well for what I like, but you might want more or less). You can also set the keybend in Sylphyo to send out a midi CC message which can then be mapped to any parameter you want in SWAM, but for my purposes I've found that leaving it on pitch bend works well.
For the mute, I use the slider to control which mute is engaged and the roll movement to control the position of th mute. This works well and is quite natural (at least when looking at the screen to determine the roll and the mute position).
Let me know if this is helpful for you! I'm working also on a little demo of SWAM with Sylphyo.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@DominicB Ya I thought the same! I've played Macguffin myself so many times and thought I would have noticed something by now... Sylphyo is full of surprises :)
Hey so this change is the normal behaviour of the oscillator used in Macguffin, called sawswarm. Basically there are multiple detuned saw waves and they have random phase shifting with each trigger. I hope this helps! :)
That is quite interesting. I will have a look at it and see what it is causing this.
@DominicB Hello and thanks for your message. I don't quite understand what you mean by three variations? Can you perhaps send a sound sample or a video so I could examine the issue? The built-in sounds of the Sylphyo are the same as the Link so that is normal.
Once you send the video I'll if I can replicate the issue on my end to help you solve it.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@Felipe-Cussen hello and welcome! We definitely use it to control hardware synths. Here is some videos controlling a modular synth: https://youtu.be/twCcDXaVbYs
You can also use it to control any synth via midi :)
I hope this helps.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@Friedus We've tried a number of methods with varying degrees of success... Right now the best way is to delete them manually. While this is not ideal, we think it is better than having to manually review each post before allowing them to be posted.
I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any better ideas.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@mathw Sorry for the late reply I can confirm the headphone jack on both the Sylphyo and the Link are stereo! Let me know if you have more questions.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
🇬🇧 : Hey Sylphyonists,
What is the coolest video you’ve seen with Sylphyo? For me I love Giorgia Angiuli’s video for Cercle which you can find here
Have a good end of the week and see you next week! ;)
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
🇫🇷 : Salut les Sylphyonistes,
Quelle est votre vidéo préféré avec le Sylphyo ? Pour moi j’adore celle de Giorgia Angiuli pour Cercle que vous pouvez trouver ici
Passez une bonne fin de semaine et à la semaine prochaine ! ;)
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
🇬🇧 : Hey Sylphyonists,
How can we help you get the most from your Sylphyo? Is there a feature you'd like to see explained, a synth you're curious to hear, or a technique you'd like us to demonstrate (or you'd like to demonstrate for other players)? 🕵️♀️
Have a good end of the week and see you next week! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
🇫🇷 : Salut les Sylphyonistes,
Comment peut-on vous aidez à maximiser votre expérience avec votre Sylphyo ? Est ce qu’il y a une particularité que vous voulez qu’on vous explique, une technique que vous voulez qu’on vous montre (ou que vous voulez montrer) ? 🕵️♀️
Passez une bonne fin de semaine et à la semaine prochaine ! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
I can confirm as of now the list of sounds is exactly the same in both. This is done to allow the near-instantaneous wireless latency as the same sound card is present in both Sylphyo and Link.
Let me know if you have more questions!
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@Tsukaï-Ban Bonjour ! C'est possible que votre Sylphyo fasse ça si vous ne recouvrez pas bien la touche d'octave. Vous pouvez également essayer de réduire le temps de réactivité (20ms par défaut) ce qui peut aider.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@ghostdic Hey! New acoustic sounds are coming!
Also for a glaring sound like an old synthesizer, you can have a look at sound 11 Sylphatty. Sound 20 Classic SquareSaw also does a good job.
@joalbankluane Thank you for the suggestions! We will take these into account.
Thanks,
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
Hey! Sorry to get back to you so late, seeing as I believe we covered these topics in our email conversation.
The 8 hours charging time before first use it simply to ensure the battery is fully charged and to calibrate it properly.
Charging more than 8 hours will not hurt the battery as the charging turns off automatically when the battery is full. In other words, no need to set your alarm!
I hope this helps.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@Wlodzislaw I'm downloading a trial version of ST4 right now to see if I can be of some help. Can you give me some more information as to exactly what you are trying to do? Is it just setting up dynamics correctly?
Hey @MusicOne ! Thanks for posting on here to keep the community informed.
For everyone else's information, I've had this conversation over email with the OP and have spoken to our developer about it, who confirmed to me that the reverb control functionality will be updated in the next several weeks with one of our upcoming releases.
I hope this helps!
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
🇬🇧 : Hey Sylphyonists,
Do you have any videos or photos of you using your Sylphyo? 🕵️♀️
We would love to see them!
Have a good end of the week and see you next week! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
🇫🇷 : Salut les Sylphyonistes,
Est-ce que vous avez des vidéos ou photos de vous utilisant votre Sylphyo ? 🕵️♀️
On aimerait beaucoup les voir !
Passez une bonne fin de semaine et à la semaine prochaine ! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
🇬🇧 : Hey Sylphyonists,
Did you know Sylphyo can be used both with headphones or amplified? Have a look here!
What’s your setup like? Do you like playing with headphones on the go or through the Link into some speakers? 🔊What headphones and what speakers do you use? 🎧
Have a good end of the week and see you next week! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
🇫🇷 : Salut les Sylphyonistes,
Saviez vous que le Sylphyo peut être utiliser avec un casque ou amplifié ? Regardez ici !
Quel est votre setup ? Est ce que vous aimez utiliser un casque ou plutôt passer par le Link pour jouer sur des enceintes ? 🔊 Quel casque est quelles enceintes utilisez-vous ? 🎧
Passez une bonne fin de semaine et à la semaine prochaine ! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
We will definitely have a look at this! I have passed it on to our developer.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@joalbankluane J'avoue connaitre assez mal les différentes utilisations sous Linux, mais pour un Sylphyo bloqué pendant la mise à jour, je peux aider !
Alors, il te suffit de :
Tu peux aussi essayer cette procédure sous Linux, c'est possible que ça marche ? Dis nous ce qu'il en est quand tu auras testé
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
🇬🇧 : Hey Sylphyonists,
What convinced you to get a Sylphyo❓ If you don’t have one, what would you like to see that would convince you❓
For me it was the close proximity in sensation to acoustic wind instruments. 🎷
Have a good end of the week and see you next week! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
🇫🇷 : Salut les Sylphyonistes,
Pourquoi avez-vous choisi d’acheter un Sylphyo ❓ Si vous n’en avez pas encore un, qu’est ce qui pourrait vous convaincre ❓
Pour moi c'était la proximité de sensation aux instruments à vents acoustiques. 🎷
Passez une bonne fin de semaine et à la semaine prochaine ! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
Hey sorry to hear you are having this problem. Can you send us an email to support@aodyo.com and we can have a look? We try to keep issues separated from discussion threads.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
🇬🇧 : Hey Sylphyonists,
There are many colours available for Sylphyo, which one is your favourite?
I like the new brass edition, it reminds me of my saxophone! 🎷
Discover it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJHnx2m-A0w
Have a good end of the week and see you next week! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
🇫🇷 : Salut les Sylphyonistes,
Il existe beaucoup d’options de couleurs pour Sylphyo, laquelle est votre préférée ?
J’aime beaucoup la nouvelle edition brass, elle me rappelle mon saxophone ! 🎷
Allez découvrir ca ici : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJHnx2m-A0w
Passez une bonne fin de semaine et à la semaine prochaine ! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
🇬🇧 : Hey Sylphyonists!
Sylphyo has movement controls that are fully CC-mappable and can add extra expressive dimensions to your playing! 🎺 I like to use elevation to control the volume of a second oscillator and roll to control the cutoff frequency of a filter.
How do you map movement controls in the Sylphyo to your favourite VSTs or synths? 🎛
Have a good end of the week and see you next week! 😉
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
🇫🇷 : Salut les Sylphyonistes !
Sylphyo intègre des capteurs de mouvements dont les messages CC sont complètement customizable, ce qui peut amener d’autres dimensions expressives à votre jeu. 🎺 J’aime bien utiliser le tangage pour contrôler le volume d’un deuxième oscillateur et le roulis pour contrôler la fréquence de cutoff d’un filtre.
Quel sont vos mappings pour utiliser le mouvement avec vos VST ou synthés préférés ? 🎛
Passez une bonne fin de semaine et à la semaine prochaine ! 😉
Maxence
🇬🇧 : Hey Sylphyonists!
Sylphyo is really versatile as you know! So it can be used for any genre of music, like world music 🎼 with Bab Assalam seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SxOrX-JZI
As well as electronic music 🎛 with Guillaume Perret seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy74woAE2JsWhat is your favourite genre to play with your Sylphyo 🎷?Have a good end of the week and see you next week! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
🇫🇷 : Salut les Sylphyonistes !
Sylphyo est un instrument extrêmement polyvalent comme vous le savez ! Il peut être utilisé pour pleins de types de musique différents, comme les sons orientaux 🎼 de Bab Assalam vu ici https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SxOrX-JZI
Ainsi que la musique électronique 🎛 de Guillaume Perret https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy74woAE2Js
Quel est votre type de musique préféré à jouer avec votre Sylphyo 🎷 ?
Bonne fin de semaine et à la semaine prochaine ! 😉
Maxence, Aodyo Instruments
@Bernd Happy to hear you got sound back before we got to you!
To apply the latest update to your Link, you follow the same update procedure as for your Sylphyo, except on the Link :) SO connect it to your computer, launch the update, turn on the Link, wait for the update to complete, turn the link off and then back on and it's ready to use.
Let me know if you have more questions.
🇬🇧: Hey Sylphyonists,
I would like to have a weekly discussion with you guys about Sylphyo to know more about your experiences.
As many of you know, Sylphyo can control most synthesizers 🎛️, what is your favourite synth/VST to control with your Sylphyo ?
For me I love the Mutable Instruments Plaits modular, here is a video of me improvising on it with Sylphyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twCcDXaVbYs
See you next week 😀 !
🇫🇷 : Salut les Sylphyonistes,
Nous lançons de nouvelles discussions hebdomadaires à propos du Sylphyo afin d'en savoir plus sur vos expériences.
Comme beaucoup d'entre vous le savent déja, Sylphyo peut contrôler la plupart des synthés 🎛️, quel est votre synthé/VST préféré à contrôler avec votre Sylphyo ?
J'aime beaucoup le Plaits de Mutable Instruments, voici une petite impro avec le Sylphyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twCcDXaVbYs
À la semaine prochaine 😀 !
Maxence
Aodyo
@rothen_s Yes the common solution for this is to use an audio interface. The fact that you have not been using one would explain why you have had trouble connecting to a windows computer. An external audio interface essentially bypasses your built-in sound card and lets you get clean audio with very little latency. Most also come with microphone preamps as well. For example the one I use at the moment lets me connect up to 8 sources individually, so I would use the stereo left and right outputs from the Link receiver and connect them into, for example, input 1 and 2 on my audio interface, and then if I want a microphone as well I can connect it to input 3, and if it requires phantom power some interfaces also allow you to individually turn on phantom power for any channel. Most interfaces also include outputs to monitor speakers, headphones and more. They range anywhere from small desktop interfaces with one or two inputs and a headphone output all the way to large rackmounted interfaces with up to 96 inputs, and even more on some very specialised models! If you do not have one already you should definitely look into it. They are essential for any kind of modern audio work.
For your question about the Link, it does have sounds in it actually! It contains exactly the same sound card as the one built in to the Sylphyo. The Link can both receive and send midi data, so that is what happens when you use the Sylphyo wirelessly connected to the Link which is plugged in to the computer. However, Midi data does not transmit audio, but can be used to control audio, with a computer or a synthesizer.
The simplified reason why the Sylphyo and Link have a near-instantaneous connection is because we are only transmitting midi data between the two, not audio.
I think there was some misunderstanding. What I had understood was that the Sylphyo Link had only 5 sounds in it, so I was correcting that, sorry for the mistake! The Sylphyo Bench software does indeed have 5 sounds built-in. The Bench was meant originally as a simple midi functionality test, so we are not at the moment planning any updates to it.
With regards to the battery drain, if you take my sylphyo which I have been using every day for the past two years, the battery is still lasting a significant amount of time despite constantly using it plugged in as well as in various modes, both on stage and as a midi controller. So I can assure you the battery is not very much affected by plugging in the Sylphyo.
Yes good point, thank you for poiting it out about the expectation of bluetooth functionality.
Thanks for the comments! :) It's exciting to see users taking an active part in our community.
Musically,
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
Aodyo.com
Hello! Thank you very much for the article, great to read from our community.
Here are a few corrections and remarks about the article:
First, the Link has all the sounds contained within the Sylphyo, you just need to update your Link in the same way as your Sylphyo. These sounds can be used wirelessly with Sylphyo or independently with another midi controller, using the usb or the Midi DIN ports on the Link.
Secondly, plugging in your Sylphyo via usb to use it as a midi controller does not actually drain the battery or ruin it. This would have been the case many years ago with older batteries, but newer batteries are much more resistant to this kind of wear, so much so that they do not deteriorate significantly from being plugged in.
As for your comments about using Sylphyo and Link with a windows computer, we regularly use windows computers (I myself use one almost exclusively) for our music and have not had a problem with latency and no needs for specialised drivers. Can you tell us more about this issue? Are you using windows 10 or a previous windows OS?
Regarding your comment about no bluetooth functionality in the Sylphyo, we chose not to include bluetooth connectivity because it is generally slow, unreliable and has poor range. Instead, the proprietary wireless technology that connects the Sylphyo with the Link receiver has a range of more than 20 metres, a latency of less than 1ms and is very reliable.
I hope this is helpful to you! Please let me know if you have any questions or additional comments.
Musically,
Maxence + Aodyo Team
Aodyo Instruments
Aodyo.com
@reidid789 Hello! From our experience the best way to get around this limitation is to assign (if you can) midi cc11 (expression) which is used in the Sylphyo as default for breath control to a vca within your synth. I have used this technique with hardware synths as well as eurorack synths and some soft synths. Let me know if this is helpful!
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
Good to hear Friedus! We hope you stay safe and stay at home with your Sylphyo.
Musically,
Maxence
Hello!
Sorry for the lack of reply to this thread.
Since v1.4 the reverb setting is not active.
This will be changed in the next update.
Musically,
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
@ghostdic Hello! Yes the Sylphyo is able to be transposed to whatever key you want, including E ♭ and B ♭. It can also be played fully chromatically.
Please let me know if you have any more questions.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments
Bonjour Bernard,
Essayez de changer de canal de connection Sylphyo Link en réappairrant les deux.
Vous pouvez faire ceci en appuyant sur les deux boutons du Link.
Ensuite, dans le menu du Sylphyo, sélectionnez l’entrée Boîtier récepteur en vous assurant que l'option Sans-Fil (Link) est cochée.
Maxence
Aodyo Instruments