@Peter-Ostry @Wlodzislaw @Paul-Flute @Gromit

Thank you all for your help, it's good to know there's an interested, supportive community involved with these machines. Further motivation to get involved...

@Gromit reading the manual - genuinely, why didn't I think of that sooner?!! Thank you for an eminently sensible suggestion.

@Paul-Flute already checked with Aodyo - they have no representative in Japan. Also met a guy working at a music shop here who specializes in wind synths - if I get a Sylphyo it may well be the first in the country!

@Wlodzislaw thanks for your input. That's a serious library there - quite a resource, thank you. I'll check it out.

@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.

Hi there!

I'm very interested in getting into wind controllers and digital music generally, and purchasing the Slyphyo and Anyma Phi seems like a great way to start. I hope no one minds me using this forum to ask some questions and clarify a few things for myself regarding these amazing machines. (Please feel free to number any answers to specific questions)

1. As a clarinetist, I'm looking for a controller that best duplicates the feeling of a wind instrument's airflow - the others I've tried (Akai, Berglund) were not good in this regard. In your experience, am I in the right place?

2. I have no experience with synth patching, though I'm no newbie to effects pedals (check out my youtube channel if you'd like to hear contrabass clarinet with digital effects: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwX-2FRlAZsYWxF0vAGWRew). The idea of physical modeling is fascinating to me, I'm wondering if the Anyma Phi is a good starting point or not though - how complicated it is, how much other synth knowledge I'll need to acquire to make sense of it.

3. How customizable are the internal sounds of the Sylphyo? I'm assuming they're nowhere near so as those on Anyma Phi. Were the Sylphyo's sounds created on the Anyma Phi and are they available or editable on it? (Basically, I'm wondering how interconnected the two machines are - to what extent are they made for each other?)

4. Can sounds on the Anyma Phi be easily customized to include usage of the slider and inertial controls of the Sylphyo?

5.What other machines and software would you recommend using the Sylphyo to control? (The intro video mentions Respire and Swam, I'm not necessarily looking to duplicate specific wind instrument sounds though)

Thank you in advance for any answers, any thoughts and time spent would be much appreciated.