Hello,

I've been encountering this problem.
In my case, it strangely occured a few days before a concert, and during the concert !! What an ideal time for such a trouble, and the same repeated for a few concerts...

Aodyo's support was not helpful for me. I was so desperate I bought another Sylphyo and... had the same problem right away !

After careful investigation, I found what caused the problem and how to work around it.

It turned out that it was not moisture as such, the problem, but salt one. The one that is contained in sweat at the tip of the fingers. The kind of sweat one can have when being anxious before and at a concert !
I made some experiments, with normal water and salt water in contact with the body of the Sylphyo and the results is crystal clear : with normal water, no problem. With salt water, it is as if my finger was stuck on the key.
Also, I did the same experiments with normal/salt water inside plastic gloves : having the tip of the glove, filled with salt water (even with no finger inside) in contact with the body of the sylphyo would make the device consider that the corresponding key is pressed.

I'm surprised Aodyo's technical team don't seem to be aware of this electrochemical mechanism.

So, I know, now, how to work around it (using plastic gloves) but to be honest, I don't want to use Sylphyos anymore because of this. Lack of reliability which is a no-go in concert !

regards,

Vincent

Hello,

while I was looking forward to this mouthpiece 2 years ago, I quickly understood that Aodyo was pursuing other priorities.
In addition, although Aodyo said at that time they were working on it, there was no promise to deliver it in the near future.

This being said, as sonsdanslair put it, the slider and the shake vibrato are very far from the original sensation of acting on the mouthpiece.
The Sylphyo is so great for its ability to let the player blow into it as it is with a real woodwind instrument that, people used to such acoustic instrument natural expect the mouthpiece to react the same way.

I used to play the clarinet. I never use the slider for effect. shake vibrato is quite effective and natural.
But I definitely miss a "smart" mouthpiece.
Look : I tried using a clarinet mouthpiece instead of the plastic mouthpiece of the Sylphyo. It fits very well and I can modulate the expression by biting the reed more or less as I would do with the real instrument. This brings some vibrato control.

The thing is that it is not like a real reed ! For instance, sometimes I surprise myself strengthening my bite on the mouthpiece when I want the sound of the synthetic instrument to be a few cents higher !

Understanding that Aodyo would not propose an electronic mouthpiece before long, I imagined the following DIY :

• there are small ribbons (a few centimeters) sensitive to the pressure location and intensity,
• glue this ribbon to the bottom of the plastic mouthpiece,
• build an electronic circuit for mesuring location+intensity of the bite on the ribbon,
• build an electronic circuit for converting to MIDI and transmitting this to a computer, wireless,
  => then you have a mouthpiece that can react to your bite intensity for some vibrato effect, or for pitch bending, and also bite location for changing the tone of the sound as it is on a clarinet or a saxophone.