OR-0005
Halvyn
United Kingdom · 1983 – c. 2008
Ser. 2000/A088
1995 · effect
Issued as VST3 · AU
Restored 2024 from 1995 hardware.
Halvyn T-2000 — Time Compressor
Halvyn T-2000 · time compressor · restored from unit no. 2000/A088 · Halvyn, United Kingdom, 1995
The restorer's note
Early time-stretching pushed past where it holds together — the smeared, underwater, spectral-glass sound, and a freeze that becomes a pad. Halvyn meant it for tidy edits; we restored it for the mess it makes at the edges.
Acquisition
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The plate
Listening
Listening
Demonstration recordings, prepared at the bench.
The smear, plainly
The pad, dry, then through the machine at Stretch 200 % from five seconds — the same material smeared to twice its internal length, FFT Size at 2048.
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Coherence, let go
FFT Size at 256 — the warble end of the machine. Coherence unlocks from 100 to 0 across the take and the phases run free; Stretch then climbs from 250 to 400 %.
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A frame, held
Stretch at 400 % with FFT Size 4096 and Overlap at 2×. At ten seconds Freeze holds a single spectral frame and the pad becomes a drone; at twenty-four it is released.
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