User's Guide

The Sylphyo at a glance
During your performance, they act as supplementary octave keys,
going down by two (
+
) or three (
-
) octaves.
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The slider allows you to nuance the played sound by sliding your
thumb vercally.
It also allows you to access the Sengs menu by sliding from the
very boom to the top while pressing the key.
In the Sengs menu, you can also use the slider to select and con-
firm menu items (by sliding and tapping, resp.), and you can go to
the previous screen by sliding your thumb from the very top to
the boom.
What is it, exactly?
Your Sylphyo is a musical instrument: it is a tool that turns your gestures
into sounds. Once you learn how to play it, it becomes an extension of
your mouth and hands, allowing you to convey emoons and intenons
in a musical form, respecng most nuances you put into playing.
Your Sylphyo can also be a controller: when it processes input from its
various sensors (breath, ineral, capacive…), it determines what you
are doing, and then can send orders (e.g., start playing a so C note) to a
soware or hardware synthesizer that processes these orders and pro-
duces sounds. These orders are formaed as messages in the MIDI
communicaon 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.
With the Link receiver, your Sylphyo is also wireless: what the Sylphyo
interprets from your gestures is connuously transmied from the Syl-
phyo to the Link receiver through radio waves (typically in less than a
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