What is it, exactly?
Your Sylphyo is a controller: it processes input from its various sen-
sors (breath, ineral, capacive…), determines what you are doing, and
sends orders (e.g., start playing a so C note) to a soware or hardware
synthesizer that processes these orders and produces sounds. These
orders are formaed as messages in the MIDI communicaon protocol,
an industry standard for more than 30 years. Most synths understand
MIDI, so you can really control almost anything that produces sound
using the Sylphyo.
Your Sylphyo is also wireless: MIDI messages are transmied from the
Sylphyo to the receiver device through radio waves (typically in less
than a millisecond), and the receiver device passes these messages on
to your computer, smartphone, tablet, or hardware synth, which then
produces sound. The whole process should take between 5 and 20 mil-
liseconds, depending on the computer, device, or synth at the receiving
end.
Finally, your Sylphyo is future-proof: it is designed so that you can ben-
efit from further soware and hardware improvements. Updates to the
internal soware are free, and you can download them on our website.
In the future, you will also be able to buy an extension card that turns it
into a standalone musical instrument (hence the headphone output), or
an acve mouthpiece with extra sensors for even more expressiveness.
What is there to see?
The display of your Sylphyo provides you with three main screens that
provide you with all the relevant informaon to perform and configure
it according to your needs.
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