I was looking for a small unit for easily tweaking and a wide array of sounds : seems that Dani Wilson made it :-) I ll be on the list

Noqsvland

NEWS UPDATE: The 4th batch of 7 pre-production units are nearing completion and am now taking pre-orders for delivery in June. A new Patch Editor/Librarian VST with full automation is also in development and will be free to Elfin-01 and 04 owners.

In collaboration with Stereoping in Germany and ISGK in Japan I've been burning the candle at both ends of late working on a quirky new little MIDI desktop monosynth which I've called The Elfin-01 (and Elfin-04, a new 4-Voice Poly Expander to go with it)...

The idea was to lever and pull together various existing technologies and produce a relatively low-cost yet solidly built, flexible compact desktop 2 osc + sub + noise mono/duosynth in a rugged metal enclosure with a bit of character all of its own (quite unusually its an 8-bit Virtual-Analog with a somewhat saturated transformer-coupled audio output stage - yes its lo-tech, grainy and sometimes a little noisy but its part of its charm) with full realtime midi CC control of all 32 control parameters, 17 built in sound patches, velocity sensitive, multiple LFO shapes and modulation routing with the ability to save out snapshots of sound patches and even basic duophonic mode too.

The first three batches of pre-production units are now in the hands of their new owners along with a library of over 100 sound patches. I'm currently gearing up for batches 05 & 06 for early adoptors.

Any questions, please PM me here on S/C or to EF86 on GearSpace.

Sound Design & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2025.

Hideaway's New Elfin-01 Monosynth: A Quirky New 8bit VA Desktop..

presale will start on jan, 3rd.
limited edition of 100 items, handstamped and individually numbered with photographic insert

bandcamp

steifl - aux4442 - 12'' snippets

C O L O R S Q U A D 0 1 7
https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-1-7


Spreadsheet Music

Track made for C O L O R S Q U A D 0 1 7 comp:
https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-1-7

fTrack_[hypoji_mix]

NEWS UPDATE: The second batch of 25 pre-production units are nearing completion and am now taking pre-orders for delivery in June. A new Patch Editor/Librarian App & VST/AU plugin with full automation has also been developed complete with a new library of over 250 sound patches for Win/Mac/Linux and will be free to all Elfin-04 and 01 owners.

Introducing Elfin-04, Hideaway Studio's Compact New 4-Voice Polysynth Expander...
 
I have been working round the clock for weeks now on my dinky little 8-bit 4-Voice (4 x [2osc+1sub+LFO]) VA Poly Expander with 1960's style transformer-mixed output voicing and finally No's.000 thru 010 are born to the world and receiving very positive feedback from their new owners....... this 4-voice polysynth measuring just 16x12x3cm has full real-time control over her 32 parameters via simple midi ccs and 16 built-in patches. 

Based on an expanded form of a customized software synth-core design by ISGK in Japan, I think the Elfin-04's unique voice ouput/mixing transformers do add something for sure - they are driven full-swing with 60KHz PWM resulting in a lot of additional harmonics/mirror frequencies and some saturation that all gets trapped within the transformers which adds a richness/darkness to the sound (no-doubt inspired in part by my beloved DK Synergy). In the Elfin-04, the 4 voices are passively mixed but, unusually, by the topology of the output-transformers themselves which is a trick that used to be found in some more exotic 1960s valve test equipment where multiple signal outputs were mixed on isolated outputs (eg. my huge old Panoramic TTG-2 tube Dual Sinewave Generator). Also, each voice CPU is independently clocked so everything is genuinely free-wheeling across the voices so even the noise phases slowly when played on multiple notes and unison which is pretty cool.

Any questions, please PM me here on S/C or to EF86 on GearSpace.

All Sound Design & Recordings Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2025.

Hideaway's New Elfin-04 Polysynth: Detuned Unison Mode Montage 01

thul v1+cr78rubber

this is urrovlp01,
a selection made from the digital release that global aphasia made last year.
we have been selecting a few for this for a while now.
prolly will be a few more releases like this on the way, cause i think these works need a release on vinyl.

i deeply love your work, zane :)
all the best, dom micomu

support the artist:
https://globalaphasia.bandcamp.com/album/various-unreleased-2023-2024

urrovlp01 - global aphasia - 12" snippets

11 Sleeping Under The Stars m3 (2013)

jenkagalaxy 02 3-13 (2007)

1910_Tj

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

Hideaway's New Elfin-01 Monosynth: A Quirky New 8bit VA Desktop..

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