OR-0008
Halvyn
United Kingdom · 1983 – c. 2008
Ser. 5000/A034
1989 · effect
Issued as VST3 · AU
Restored 2024 from 1989 hardware.
Halvyn C-5000 — Chorus / Ensemble
Halvyn C-5000 · chorus / ensemble · restored from unit no. 5000/A034 · Halvyn, United Kingdom, 1989
The restorer's note
The lush, glassy multi-voice widener that sits beneath half the mixes of its decade. Thick, shimmering, unmistakably digital — restored with its quantized delay grain intact, because that grain is the era.
Acquisition
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The plate
Listening
Listening
Demonstration recordings, prepared at the bench.
The ensemble, plainly
Held chords, dry, then the Ensemble at 50 % mix from five seconds — four modulated voices at 0.6 Hz, the single line becoming a section.
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Two voices, then eight
Chorus Mode with two Voices, thin and even. Eight Voices arrive at eight seconds, the Ensemble at fourteen, Dimension at twenty-one — the same phrase, thickening.
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Warble, then width
Rate at 6 Hz with Depth at 90 % — a fast warble on 12-bit Grain, held in mono — settles to 0.4 Hz and 60 %; Spread then opens the image from mono to full width.
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