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Heirloom, an imperfect instrument. Heirloom is a sampler built around a massive library of handmade sounds. Every note captured, chopped, and processed one at a time.

Heirloom, an imperfect instrument

Heirloom is a sampler built around a massive library of handmade sounds. Every note captured, chopped, and processed one at a time.

The Heirloom window with the Heirloom piano loaded, printed like a document: a header with the engine readout, the preset field and the instrument register; a plate carrying a marbled skin with a line drawing of an upright piano and the instrument's source register; the instrument's story on the right above the three room slots and their bus controls; and a deck of controls along the bottom: envelope, filter and body, pitch with reverse and pitch lock, artifact, denoise, intensity and the Relic dial.
the instrument · Heirloom loaded · skin one of five
the tape · raw instruments
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Each one is the instrument alone: no rooms, no processing, nothing after it.

the instrument
heirloom
Purchase
Play what plays back. High fidelity, gone gently feral. Heirloom keeps the noise, the drift and the ghost in the take, then hands them back as something you can play. Artifacts occasionally poking through, so everything you touch is fully alive. And a proprietary Relic effect system that drags the sample pool through time.

Play what plays back. High fidelity, gone gently feral

Heirloom keeps the noise, the drift and the ghost in the take, then hands them back as something you can play. Artifacts occasionally poking through, so everything you touch is fully alive. And a proprietary Relic effect system that drags the sample pool through time.

rooms, relic & reverse

The rooms are the heart of it. Eighty impulse responses made for Heirloom and tuned to its instruments, in eight kinds: rooms, fields, plates, springs, wires, objects, reversed and experimental. Three load at once on their own faders into one bus, with a low cut, a high cut, size, pre delay, and a wear control that plays the room back off a tired cassette. Every room is levelled so a fader at the same height means the same amount of any of them, and any of them sits right on any instrument. Pick three and the instrument is somewhere.

Relic is a bake, and nothing else does it. Press it and Heirloom drags the whole sample pool through time at the intensity you set: a little instability, a chosen artifact, a variation you didn't ask for and couldn't have programmed. Every other sampler gives you the same sound back, forever. Relic doesn't.

And reverse, as an articulation. Heirloom finds the moment the sound actually arrives and starts there, so a reversed note speaks in time, under your hands. Pitch lock moves the sample under the key while the note stays where you played it.

rooms, relic & reverse
specs
format
VST3 on Windows · VST3 and Audio Unit on macOS · 64 bit, Apple silicon and Intel
included
~79 GB sample library, shipped as a 31 GB download · 50 instruments · 50 factory presets · 80 rooms of convolution reverb in eight kinds · the Relic engine
on the deck
envelope · filter and body · transpose with pitch lock · reverse · artifact · denoise · Relic intensity · three room slots with wet, tone, size, pre delay, wear and instability · five skins, paper or ink
requires
Windows 10 or later, or macOS 10.13 or later · a VST3 or Audio Unit host · 16 GB RAM recommended · 31 GB free disk space
updates
free · one license, every update

Everything is included. No expansion packs, no upsells. One instrument, complete.

heirloom

$25 One time, not a subscription.

delivery
license key by email, instantly
license
every machine you own, no activation limit
updates
free, every version
get heirloom

secure checkout · 31 GB download, resumable

Not sure yet? Four of the fifty are free. Heirloom Free is the whole engine with Mirror, Iris, Fog and Lens, a room of every kind, nothing to activate.