Soundcloud Finds - part 5

slippage

Edited highlights of our fourth improvisation using samples exclusively taken from the compilation album "Noise Vs Silence", released by @Noiseanoise records in January 2023.

Recorded on the 16th April 2023, you can hear the full improvisation in June's edition of our bi-monthly experimental music radio show, "Sonic Soup For The Mind", for CampFR net radio, here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/silo-portem-sonic-soup-for-the-mind-02nd-june-2023/

Noise Vs Silence Jam 4 - Edited Highlights

Astralis

wind blows inside of me

https://www.beatport.com/artist/xfa/589219

MMXXIIIVIXIIINCCSSBL

Whatever the Weather II

15°C

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.

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

Introducing Elfin-04, Hideaway Studio's Compact New 4-Voice Polysynth...
 
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.

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

Hideaway's New Elfin-04 Polysynth: Polyphonic Patch Montage 01

made for the haiku challenge #583 by https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records

early morning light (naviarhaiku583)

It's been a rough ride in the last months, but slowly, things are falling into place again. 

Production was simple: I pumped a generative Wotja track into the ever amazing Cocoquantus, and added some Strings'n'Reverb from Slate & Ash at the end.

Analog Paralysis, 1978

Tim Hecker

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