Orrery — Copenhagen

OR-0029

Salo Oy
Salo, Finland · 1991 – c. 2004

Ser. RG-9312-0245
1993 · instrument

Issued as VST3 · AU

Restored 2025 from 1993 hardware.

Salo 3210 — Monophonic Ringer

Salo 3210 · single-voice ringer module · restored from unit no. RG-9312-0245 · Salo Oy, Salo, Finland, 1993

The restorer's note

One voice, one buzzer, one melody — a phone ringing in a coat pocket in 1993. There is nothing to improve here, and we have improved nothing; the tinniness is the piezo speaker, modeled faithfully from the module as found.

Acquisition

The Salo Collection $49 · €45 · £39 · 329 DKK The Complete Catalogue $149 · €135 · £115 · 999 DKK

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Borrow it from the archive for a short time, or acquire it for your collection.

Runs in your studio as AU and VST3 on macOS, and VST3 on Windows.

Download — macOS: installer · zip · Windows: installer · zip

The plate

The restored Salo 3210 — Monophonic Ringer: its faceplate as issued.
Plate 29 · as issued

Listening

Listening

Demonstration recordings, prepared at the bench.

  1. The ring, plainly

    A monophonic ringing phrase at bench settings — the Square wave through the piezo-buzzer model, Buzzer at 60 % — repeated, as the machine insists.

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  2. Three shapes and a slide

    The same phrase through Square, then Pulse — Pulse Width swept from 5 to 95 % — then Triangle; Glide at 80 ms lets the final phrase slide between its notes.

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  3. The buzzer, in and out

    Drive at 90 % clips the wave hard while Buzzer walks from nought to full — the plastic resonance arriving — then drops away and returns for the close. Attack at 10 ms, Decay at 800 ms.

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