
The graphical user interface allows to modify the spring or hammers characteristics
in a global way (for all the strings) or individually (for each string.)
On the top-right corner is a help button "?"
This button allows to get a simple help on each button of the interface: just click
on any area of the window to display help about this area.
To close the help window, click again on the "?" button.
On the bottom of the window is a keyboard. It can be used to test the sound of each note.
Clicking on a key will strike the string at full velocity.
Sylfid recognizes all midi notes from a standard 88 keys keyboard, from A0 to C8. It also uses
the sustain and volume midi data.
The top part of the window has 3 main buttons:
- sylfid: this page contains main parameters, like global volume.
- strings: opens a page that contains all the parameters that define the strings.
- hammers: opens a page that contains all the parameters that define the hammers.
Each parameter has 3 areas: on the right is the value (in general between 0 and 100),
in the middle a slider (use Ctrl-click to reset the slider to 0).
The button on the left, with the name of the parameter, opens a slider area on the bottom that
contains one slider per key. It is used to tweak the parameter value for each key (+/- 50%.)
Click on this area to modify the sliders values.
Shift-click to change only one slider.
On the right are seven buttons: 0 + - x / R S
These buttons change all the per/key slider values.
0 : resets all the sliders to 0 (middle)
+ : increases all the sliders by 5%
- : decreases all the sliders by 5%
x : multiplies all the sliders by 5%
/ : divides all the sliders by 5%
R : adds a random value (+- 5%) to all sliders
S : smooth out all the sliders values