heirloom

An imperfect instrument.

High fidelity, gone gently feral.

Play something that plays back.

get heirloom · listen below ↓
[ HERO DEMO — the single best "oh" moment · short video (autoplay muted) or audio with a big play button ] heirloom ▶
the idea

I record sound at the highest fidelity I can reach — maximum nuance, maximum sonic information.

Then I let it slip.

The noise, the drift, the ghost in the take — the parts other tools spend fortunes erasing — Heirloom keeps. Not as a filter you switch on. As the nature of the instrument itself.

What comes back is faithfully misbehaved: pristine at the core, alive at the edges, and never quite the same twice.

[ A/B DEMO — same source, clean → then through Heirloom · one toggle, two states · the whole pitch in one listen ] clean / heirloom ▶
relic

Every other sampler gives you the same sound back, forever.

Relic doesn't.

Play a note and Heirloom reaches into its own memory — a little instability, a chosen artifact, a variation you didn't ask for and couldn't have programmed. The instrument answers differently each time, the way a real one does.

No two takes are identical. That's not a bug we left in. It's the reason it exists.

[ RELIC DEMO — one phrase, played several times, re-rolled · the ear should hear it shift · looping ] relic ▶
plays back

Lean in and it leans back.

Heirloom reads how you play — how hard, how soft, how you move between notes — and responds in kind. Velocity opens different doors. The instrument has moods, and you find them by playing, not by menu-diving.

And it shows you. A small mark tells you which pool your touch just reached — a circle, a triangle, a polygon. Play harder, and the shape changes. Then, sometimes, a star: something else just happened.

The instrument tells you what it's thinking. Not what it's about to do.

It plays back. That's the whole idea.

[ PERFORMANCE VIDEO — hands on keys, close on velocity and dynamics · watch it react ] plays back ▶
reverse

Most samplers can play a sound backwards. Almost none of them can play it musically.

Flip a sample and you get silence, then a swell, then — eventually — a note. Fine for texture. Useless for playing.

Heirloom finds the moment the sound actually arrives, and starts there. Press a key and the reversed note speaks immediately, in time, under your hands.

Reverse, as an articulation. Not an effect you print — a way you play.

[ REVERSE DEMO — a phrase forward, then reversed, in tempo, in real time · show hands · the point is that it's playable ] reverse ▶
the sound

Fifty gigabytes of sound, shaped into presets with names and personalities of their own.

Some are close to pristine. Some have wandered further off. All of them are Heirloom — faithfully misbehaved, ready to play.

sampled

Aspen
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Ava
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Bloom
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Crystal
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Grain
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Harbor
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Heirloom
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Inkwell
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Momento
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Moss
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Rosin
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Solstice
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Vale
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Vesper
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Vestige
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synthesized

Age
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Archive
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Chapel
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Coda
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Elegy
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Hush
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Ice Cream Truck
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Lantern
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Lull
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Moonfall
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Patina
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Rune
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Tithe
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Umber
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Vapor
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specs
format
VST3 · Windows, 64-bit · macOS coming soon
included
~50 GB sample library (ships as an 18 GB download), all 30 presets, the Relic engine
requires
Windows 10 or later · a VST3 host · 16 GB RAM recommended · 18 GB free disk space
updates
free — one license, every update

Everything is included. No add-on packs, no upsells. One instrument, complete.

heirloom

$50$100

Introductory pricing — $50 at launch, $100 after.

get heirloom

secure checkout · license key by email, instantly · 18 GB download

[ OPTIONAL — one last short demo or a quiet loop under the buy module ]