For the press.

Orrery is a work of fiction — a restoration house invented whole, together with the four hardware companies whose archives it claims to keep. The instruments are real: forty-four audio plug-ins in the VST3 and AU formats, genuinely built, genuinely sold, genuinely licensed. Only the story around them is a story.

The story

One person invented four defunct audio-hardware companies — Salo of Finland, Tekura of America, Yumeo of Japan, Halvyn of Britain — wrote them a bible, gave every machine a serial and a history, and then built the plug-ins those machines would have become. The catalogue is organized as a restoration house's ledger: forty-four instruments, four archives, each entry carrying its provenance line and restorer's note.

The facts

• Forty-four instruments · four houses · VST3 and AU · macOS and Windows.
• Sold at orrery.dk; payments by Paddle; licences honoured and recoverable.
• The fiction is labeled: see "The fiction, plainly" in the acknowledgements.

Materials

• The bible, in full
• Brand and faceplate assets
• Demonstration recordings play on every device page.

Elsewhere

• Instagram · @orreryarchive
• Threads · @orreryarchive
• Bluesky · @orrery.dk
• Mastodon · @orreryarchive@mastodon.social
• X · @orreryarchive
• YouTube · @orreryarchive

Review licences

Working NFR licences are issued to writers and reviewers on request, free, no conditions attached: bench@orrery.dk.