Orrery — Copenhagen
We do not invent instruments. We recover them.
Somewhere in the last thirty years, audio left the world of objects and moved into software, and in the crossing, a generation of machines was lost. Not destroyed — worse than destroyed. Forgotten.
Four of those companies are ours to keep now. Each of them was ended by software. We bring each of them back as software — not to erase the irony, but to honor it. Every instrument we issue was modeled from a real, surviving unit, named by serial, so that you are never holding a guess. You are holding the thing itself, made to run again.
The four houses
Salo, Finland · 1991 – c. 2004
Salo
“Clear voice. Anywhere.”
12 instruments
Oregon, USA · 1979 – c. 2001
Tekura
“Introduces controlled quantization error, for measurement and effect.”
11 instruments
Japan · 1985 – c. 2005
Yumeo
“Pristine digital clarity — the sound of tomorrow.”
10 instruments
United Kingdom · 1983 – c. 2008
Halvyn
“16-bit processing. 44.1 kHz. True stereo. No compromise.”
11 instruments
We restore. We do not improve. When a codec sounds half-swallowed, when a converter grinds, when a reverb rings a little metallic, we leave it exactly so, because that flaw is a fingerprint, and a fingerprint is the point.
Recovered, not reinvented. From the archive.