Note the above demos and following description are from March 5, 2025. I spotted the Elfin in Hainbach's A Hundred Suns, posted below. There appears to be two synths, an Elfin-08: 8-Voice Functional Prototype Synthesizer, and an Elfin-04 Polysynth.
"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.
"A Hundred Suns, the first single from my upcoming album on Seil Records, is out on streaming now. Have a listen a share if you enjoy it:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/hai..."
Synth spotting with HAINBACH. I beleive that's an Ensoniq Fizmo paird with the Hideaway Studio Elfin. This appears to be the first post to feature the Elfin.
"To commemorate the passing of Vladimir Kuzmin, the renown inventor of the Formanta Polivoks synthesizer, and to raise funds for his family, an independent group of musicians and instrument makers held a memorial event in Moscow. They asked me to contribute a video message about his legacy. Since Vladimir Kuzmin had previously commented on my videos, which was mind-blowing to me, I decided to tell that story. It is a bit embarrassing, since I got a few things wrong in my videos that he corrected me on. But at least I enjoyed my errors tremendously, and he did not seem to be mad about them.
"On June 12, Vladimir Kuzmin—the creator of the Polivoks and one of Russia's most influential figures in synthesizer design—passed away. We have decided to organize a charity memorial evening in Moscow to honor him (https://t.me/Kuzmin_memorium).
The loss of such a significant historical figure in the world of audio equipment came as a great shock to us all, and we wish to share our sentiments—as well as the legacy left by the Polivoks' creator—with everyone who cares. We want everyone to be able to join us; admission is free, and any donations collected will be given to Vladimir Mikhailovich’s family.
We have invited leading sound artists and key figures from the synthesizer world who had direct ties to Vladimir to participate in this memorial event. They will give lectures and perform compositions using instruments developed by the Formanta factory.
Participants include: Vlad Kreimer (Soma) (https://vk.com/somasynths) Vladimir Kabanov (PRIBOR) (https://t.me/priborpedals?ref=vc.ru) Sergey Letov (https://t.me/SergeyLetov) E-Nitra (https://vk.com/e_nitra) Spiralnix (https://vk.com/necrostellar) Chronos (https://vk.com/away.php?to=https%3A%2...)
There will also be an exhibition area featuring a museum of Formanta instruments alongside modern designs from domestic manufacturers that will be available for purchase. Proceeds from instrument sales will also go to Vladimir Kuzmin’s family.
If you would like to show your support and honor the memory of the deceased’s family, you can make a contribution via this link (https://pay.cloudtips.ru/p/390a62ff). The funds will be transferred to his widow after the memorial evening takes place."
"Many of you have asked where I get all the obscure gear I feature here. One of the answers is: road trips. I noticed three very unique pieces of gear on classifieds (Kleinanzeigen) that peaked my interest, and got into a conversation with the seller. I travelled to Halle, and got a look into a beautiful collection. Turns out, her late uncle was an engineer at the Reichsbahn, the east German railway form before the unification of Germany. He worked on a measurement wagon for the Versuchs-u. Entwicklungstelle. In this video I will cover the absolutely massive RFT TZF Terzfilter that he used for measurements, and I now for music.
SynthFest France 2026 was held April 17–19. You can find coverage via the SynthFest France label.
"► Thank You 101 Music | 3IS Education | A2D Sounds | ACE | Age Music Belgium | Akai Pro | Alex Nadzharov | Algae | Ambient Memory | Anasounds | Artists & Relationships | Arturia | ASM | Audeze | B4 Distribution | Baloran | Down the Patches | BEATSURFING | Benoit Widemann | BF Synth | BLEASS | Bitwig Studio | Bjooks | Bll Instruments | Charlotte Dubois | Calm | CIYLab | Heart of Sound | Collision Devices | CSFI | cyma form | DAWless Tools | Drift DJ | EmbodMe | Enjoy Electronics | Entropy & Sons | Eowave | Ewen d'Aviau | Euterpe | Expressive E | Erica Synth | FCPro Audio | France MAO | Frap Tools | Fred's Lab | Fulgur Synthesizer | Forge-TME | Glou-Glou | Haken Audio | Hainbach | Heritage Synthetizers | Hell Modular | HLABS | ITEMM | Ingmar Koch | JC Digital | Diary | Kaona | Kiviak Instruments | Kodamo | KORG | KA pro | KR magazine | L1V3 | Lagoon | The Voice Of The Luthier | Larix-Electro | Leaf Audio | Liquid Sky | Macbeth | MidiBen | Morphor | Musical Entropy | Mvk Synth | Nanopolis | North | Novation | NRSynth | Oberheim | Orbiton | Ohmforce | Paulee Alex Bow | PWM | ph-modular | Polytek | PPG | Pural Modular Synthesizer | Project Home Studio | Pylobolus | RBaudio | Ryme music | Travel Piano | Sequential | SACEM | SACEM University | Schneidersladen | Sonicware | Sp3ctra_ | SSL | Studiologic | Synclavier Music | Silence | SyntTesla | SynthAnatomy | SynthFood | SyntheGrall | SynthR | Synthstrom Audible | Teenage Engineering | Theater of the Fleuriaye | Thingstone | Theresyn | Things | Tom Geffray | Tony T-Steel | TouellSkouarn | UNAC | City of Carquefou | Vintage Synths & CO | Wee Noise Makers | Yamaha | Waldorf Music | Wavesequencer | Woodbrass | Usynth.
► Directed by Maxime Bichon, pictured by Maxime Bichon, Thibaut Charbonnier, with the participation of Gaspard Rouaud, Eva Buffa, Eva Bone Leloup, Penelope Galtier.
► Music ATOEM - Erase Mode, Deep Forest - Ghostly Disco, Dogs & Cables - Shallow Brains, Charlotte Dubois - The Electric Hands, Hainbach - Live from SynthFest 2026 - All rights reserved.
► Acknowledgments to Pierre-Jean Tardiveau / Syntesla and Hans Zimmer.
► Special thanks to all the benefactors, the technical team of the La Fleuriaye de Carquefou Convention Center and the visitors."
Playlist:
1. Bastl Kalimba: An Expressive Instrument for Intuitive Electronic Music Exploration
2. Bastl Kalimba - Demo Overview
3. Bastl Kalimba is such a fever dream - HAINBACH
4. WTF did they make? Bastl Kalimba! - ANDREW HUANG
Press release follows:
Bastl Instruments are very proud to announce the release of their new instrument - Bastl Kalimba, a unique desktop instrument that combines microphones, touch sensors, and an accelerometer, with a user interface inspired by the traditional kalimba and its main interaction element: the tines.
We believe that this combination of features and physical interface leads to intuitive creativity and easy musical expression.
"Modified Roland TR-606 / by Filippo Samore / TR-608 > as used by Hainbach on YT [posted here]. The TR-606 in 808 territory and beyond, with tuning, decay and tone mods.
' This Drummachine is on a another level and is a lot of fun (you become very creative) '
' The mod is high-quality and truly enhances the sound engine of the 606 without compromising its handy form factor. It is almost like a TR-808 now, except maybe a little more interesting, because it is still a charmingly shuffling 606 at its core.'
Examples: Visit the phunkydesk dot com Domain / > the files after the slash (/) are as follows: 608_BD.wav, Loop1.wav, Loop2.wav (there is no distortion/overdrive or clipping converters!)
The main modification in this revisited classic is the complete redesign of the kick drum circuit with a lot of borrowed technology from the 808!
+ Kick: Tune, env Control, tone and decay. You can also send the kick through the second output separately! + The Kick can also have "almost infinite" decay
+ Snare: same borrowed technology from the 808 but with an improved decay length. It gives access to tune, snappy and decay.
+ L.H Toms: Tune independent from each other and cuts out the annoying noise present in their circuit.
+ Hi-Hats: Tune and decay, separate for both open and closed hats
++ Original Roland TR 606 carrying case ++ Device is serviced (while Mod)
++ Device checked in endurance test (Batteries or the 9V TR-606 power supply)"
"A sound design I made for the SynthUX Spotykach Promo video Sound Design Contest. I used samples from my personal library, from Hainbach and @SnakesofRussia "
"Looping has come a long way since I got my first Boss pedal. The three instruments I show in this video are far out, but which has gone the furthest? And more importantly, which one is the one that entices you the most? From the endless drifting of Soma Cosmos, the blooming soundscapes of Synthux Academy Spotykach to the Eldritch madness that is the Ciat-Lonbarde Cafe Quantum, here be loops.
SAMPL PACK: / sample-pack-156667371"
"Passive bandpass filters are an obsession of mine, so it was just a question of time until AudioThing and me would make a plugin of the special subset called octave filters. Octaves is out on now: https://www.audiothing.net/effects/Oc...
My Music: http://hainbach.bandcamp.com"
"Hainbach’s Bandpass Filter
Octaves is our latest collaboration with Berlin-based composer and YouTuber Hainbach. It is a filter plugin designed to take apart the audio spectrum in spreads of octaves, allowing for unique and enchanting spectral sound design effects. Octaves gives you a retro-scientific approach to sound that echoes the timeless productions created in the BBC Radiophonic workshop or the WDR Studio für Elektronische Musik by the Avantgarde masters, and modern places like Willem Twee, Strøm, and Hainbach’s own laboratory.
Octaves is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux (VST2, VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP).
It’s also available on the App Store for iOS and iPadOS (AUv3 and Standalone).
"I recently made a little 20 second clip showing the "Kalimba of Doom" patch I had setup on my TTSH and resonators. This gathered over 850000 views across platforms, and many questions came in about how I made this. So here is the sound design how to. Check out my Patreon for the sample pack: / hainbach"
00:00 Intro
01:48 History & Inside Look
04:18 Sample instrument
05:08 Function Overview
12:38 Chiptune Break
13:42 What makes it good?
17:15 The Future of TI?
"The RMIF TI-5 "Digital Keyboard", an 8-Voice analog/digital hybrid synth, is little known, even in former Soviet countries. As they did on the ES-2-5 drum machine I covered here before, it seems that the engineers in Riga took a look at what Roland was doing, taking inspiration from the Juno-line. Unlike the famously sturdy Japanese instruments, the TI-5 was built rather haphazardly, with bad clones of western chips managing the voices and processing. That is why only few survived the test of time. Yet despite its shortcomings it sounds utterly charming, managing both deep Moog-basses, vast evolving pads and chiptune leads.
Music & TI-5 Sample Instrument: / hainbach
My Music: http://hainbach.bandcamp.com"
You can find additional videos of the RMIF TI-5 including a virtual version in previous posts here.
"The BME Rattlesnake has haunted me for decades: Ever since I discovered its crispy claps on a magazine cover disc, I wanted to play with it IRL. When I got my hands on it, I was not disappointed: the Rattlesnake surprised with me with a heavy sound beyond the samples I knew. I was curious about its history, so I did a deep dive on BME. Check out my Patreon for a big sample pack: / hainbach
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Bad Gear - TE Choir video upload by AudioPilz
Note this video is from two years ago, but I never managed to feature it or these devices on the site until now as they aren't really synths. These come to you curtesy of a supporting member who has them listed on Reverb here.
"Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:09 Overview Bad Gear - TE Choir
01:28 Presentation of the Dolls (feel free to skip)
02:10 Standalone Mode, Control via Bluetooth Midi / OP-1 Field
02:39 How does it work?
03:19 Start/Stop a Song
03:39 Midi Control, Articulation
04:16 Limitations, Bugs, Issues, Latency
04:49 How it ACTUALLY works in practice
05:01 What else??? (Github, Pricing, Thanks)
05:30 Hate
05:54 Jam 1 (Sleepy Anime Music)
06:45 Jam 2 (Classic Bad Gear Jam)
07:07 Finale (Art House)
07:37 Verdict"
And a short one from HAINBACH:
Teenage Engineering Choir Unboxing And Sound
video upload by HAINBACH
Each singer/member has its own vocal tone and is in very good condition and the electronic modules all work.
Holiday Songs
"Shchedryk" (Carol of the Bells) "Deck the Halls" "Sankta Lucia" "O Come, All Ye Faithful" "O Tannenbaum" (O Christmas Tree) "Silent Night" "Prelude" (a short introductory piece) "Auld Lang Syne" (also available in their downloads)
All preloaded songs - more can be played live with BLE MIDI
silent night – franz xaver gruber, joseph mohr, j f young* o tannenbaum – trad., ernst anschütz* o come, all ye faithful – john reading, frederick oakeley* sankta lucia – trad. via teodoro cottrau, sigrid elmblad* deck the halls – charles wood, thomas oliphant shchedryk (carol of the bells) – mykola leontovych auld lang syne – trad. via robert burns love me, and the world is mine – ernest ball, dave reed jr. i never knew – tom pitts, raymond egan, roy marsh sverige – wilhelm stenhammar dear old girl – theodore morse, henry buck gute nacht – robert schumann, friedrich rückert sweet adeline – harry armstrong, richard gerard husch warm-up exercise: signore – trad. in all my dreams, i dream of you – al piantadosi, joe m den blomstertid nu kommer – trad., israel kolmodin i've been working on the railroad – trad. now is the month of maying – thomas morley gaudeamus igitur – trad. warm-up exercise: zing-a-mama – trad. the darktown strutters' ball – shelton brooks an die freude – ludwig van beethoven en sommarafton – adolf fredrik lindblad tourdion – pierre attaingnant, césar geoffray goodbye my coney island baby – les applegate o haupt voll blut und wunden – johann sebastian bach
