True for me… but I cannot stand the synthesized wind sounds. I’m a sax player. I want to hear synth sounds on these things, not cheese ball wind sounds.
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Who will be the first DJ to put on a 909 beat and then control their favorite 303 from a Diosynth controller?
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Yep. Same here.
If I want sax sounds, I’ll play my saxes. (Well, only when the house is empty and the neighbours aren’t around… what I lack in chops I make up for in volume 
… always been a v loud player, years of playing in blues bands horn sections).
What I look for in a wind controller and sound set is the responsiveness of a real horn (bite, diaphragm pressure at the most basic) linked to a patch that translates those nuances into variations in tone and sound.
Best combo I ever had was a Yamaha WX with a VL70m module. It didn’t sound at all like a sax, it sounded like a super expressive synth that responded like a sax. I gigged and recorded with that for years then (stupidly) sold it.
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Same for me !
So i need to hear how it sounds, with my fingers on the keys ( keys thaf actually move – another thing very important to me ) responding to my breath and touch.
I am very encouraged though that in addition to the range mapped multisamples, they also have added separate sampled, breath noise, key noise, and key off samples.
Plus i know i can do the Hydrasynth voices, now with the new physical modulation sources.
I also look forward to both the Flutasaurus and Obassoon samples – it sounds like they put extra effort into the sound design with these.
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I haven’t seen anything specifically from ASM about using the Diosynth as a controller, but i have a hunch Glen snd ASM will make this special as well.
As for instance. Or the Echon 6 from Morphor for another.
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That’s a physical connection. Got that, plus the dual function ( MIDI / audio ) USB.
The question is more along the line of the interface of wind synth to MIDI.
You’d assume the same Mod-Matrix functionality as the Hydrasynth plus the new physical controls. The Mod-Matrix has both input and output for MIDI as a source, plus does MPE / poly-aftertouch.
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All I need is:
- keys → note
- reed pressure → cutoff
- wind pressure → resonance
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- XY Joystick – the joystick is placed under the right thumb and can be used in 6 different ways. It can be used for simple pitchbend effects, moving up and down, or routed in the modulation matrix to control any parameter in the voice engine. The joystick gives you instant access to all kinds of sound modifications in a very playable way.
- 2x Pressure Pads – we have 2 pressure pads which can be routed in the modulation matrix to most parameters in the voice engine. They also feature Latch/Momentary modes so you can use them as continuous controls or on/off switches.
- Gyro Sensor – the built-in gyro senses position of the instrument, from vertical to horizontal. Raising the bottom of the Diosynth will increase the amount of Gyro modulation. You could assign it to the filter cutoff to brighten up your sound, or route it to WaveScan to shift harmonics as you lift the instrument.
- Breath Sensor – we of course have a breath sensor that breathes life into your sound. We have a secondary breath modulator called Breath Threshold. You can set a threshold amount that determines the level at which the breath kicks in. It’s perfect for creating overblown flute sounds or other effects that will only come in at higher breath levels.
- Bite Sensor – The bite sensor has 3 modes of operation allowing for controllable vibrato or pitch bend effects.
- Plus the other stuff in Mod-Matrix of regular HS – like LFOs, envelopes, and MIDI in.
I won’t go quite that far, it’s a both for me, but as a controller i’ve had a lot of fun from an Aerophone and for instance the Anyma Phi.
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That makes a lot of sense. I can’t even imagine what kind of passion project I would come up with if I had the reins of a synthesizer company.
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and a patches play though
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True.
Plus Roland has gotten a lot of sales off their line of Aerophones, as Yamaha and Akai did years before that.
Hoping the Diosynth is the general replacement to the Aerophone.
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Now ASM just needs to acquire the assets of Eigenlabs and redesign the Eigenharps for 2026.
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So another as for instance of a nice possible ( likely ?? ) feature.
You would think you would get the external clock sync, with the BPM sync option, like on the HS where you can set up LFOs and envelopes ( many of them ) to sync to the dynamic BPM input.
Another thing about the regular HS is that you can set up MIDI output, completely detached from the user action on the HW, or connected to controls that have no effect to the internal synth engines, but can drive external MIDI devices.
So think for instance of the Diosynth joystick, that only outputs to external gear that you can control while playng. ( A filter on a drum machine as for instance ?? )
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Crazy video.
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…another explanation might be that as head product dev of Akai for 6 years, and having designed the EWI4000s and EWI USB, that he knows exactly how big the market actually is, knows what the annual sales might be and the longevity of the products in that market? Also hints might be in that Roland has 5 products in that space, Akai still has 2, Yamaha has 2. 
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this is why we built a full synth engine into it. You can do 100% synth sounds if you want. The samples are like a 3rd oscillator…use them or don’t. I find using samples +synth waves (wavescan) gives a lot of nice sounds and adds to it.
There are users playing in community bands, wedding bands, bar bands and church bands where the song or director needs a blues harmonic solo or bassoon or tuba or something covered and the sax player can now cover it.
But you can choose to do which ever you want.
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Did this involve a new circuit from Medeli ?
Seems to me you might have been able to wrap together the core Hydrasynth technology with the sample based stuff Medeli has already done into a proprietary IC, or maybe two.
If so and i won’t ask you to comment but it seems that sort of development effort would best be spread across multiple products.
BTW : My Diosynth is already on the way. Long time HS player, and sax player too, so this is exactly my sort of wind synth.
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We are using the same proprietary CPU that is in Hydrasynth and some of the same DSP code blocks for OSC, filters, env, lfo, etc. But the architecture is totally different. Making it two parts in one processor and adding sample playback made it a totally new design.
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