Designed for exploration
145
Original Samples
130
Factory Presets
4
Interference Banks
ARCHIVE 0 is built around two signal layers — Transmissions and Interference — blended and warped through a set of controls designed to make sound design feel intuitive, immediate, and genuinely unpredictable.
The machines
The sound sources inside ARCHIVE 0 were not chosen — they were discovered. Six banks of vintage hardware form the electronic foundation: a rare stereo-wired word generator whose interlocking pulses dissolve into digital noise; a German fixed filterbank driven into extreme resonance; precision oscillators routed through vacuum tube band-pass filters and pushed beyond their original purpose; vintage wave analyzers whose harmonic drift turns residual signal into something compositional; feedback electroacoustic instruments captured across line and microphone; and upper-register harmonic layers that reveal buried overtones when pitched into new territory.
Alongside these, ARCHIVE 0 draws from the mechanical — the rhythmic cycling of dot matrix printers, the internal movements of ageing electromechanical equipment, the physical sounds of machines that process, print, and measure. Textures with their own pulse, their own decay, captured at the point where mechanical and electronic blur into something harder to name.
The sound of machines that were never meant to be heard.
Noise as composition
Used with restraint, ARCHIVE 0 adds an underlying coherence to a cue — the kind of textural depth that a track feels rather than hears. Used boldly, it becomes the foundation: entire cues built from the residual signals of forgotten machines, the rhythmic pulse of obsolete mechanisms, and the harmonic decay of analogue hardware pushed past its limits.
From slow-moving drone beds and mechanically-driven ambience to rhythmic noise sequences and brutalist sonic textures, ARCHIVE 0 is designed for contemporary cinematic scoring, experimental electronic music, and sound design that demands authenticity over imitation.
Randomise panel
Set the scan dial in motion automatically. Control the intensity, rate, and erratic behaviour of the movement, with a smoothing control to determine how fluidly — or abruptly — the blends shift.
Interference panel
Select from four interference banks — A, B, C, and D — to layer a second signal beneath your transmission. Loop, reverse, and sculpt via the signal select panel.
Preset browser
130 factory presets spanning pads, plucks, bass, and noise — accessible directly from the central screen. Save your own, and import presets from other users to expand the archive.
Scan dial
The central control of ARCHIVE 0. Blend your transmission and interference layers in real time — from clean signal to saturated noise. Turn it slowly for subtle texture. Push it hard to dissolve into something else entirely.
Transmission panel
Access all 145 original samples individually via dropdown. Each transmission can be looped or reversed, with full ADSR envelope.
Signal matrix
Process the full output through distortion, degradation, and echo — warping the combined signal into something stranger. The signal matrix is where ARCHIVE 0 moves from instrument to environment.
Specifications
VST / AU plugin — no Kontakt required
macOS 10.15+ (Intel & Apple Silicon) / Windows 10+
145 original samples across six hardware source banks
130 factory presets — pads, plucks, bass, noise, and beyond
Full ADSR envelope control per transmission
Four interference banks with loop and reverse per layer
Signal matrix processing — distortion, degradation, echo
Randomise panel with intensity, rate, erratic, and smoothing controls
User preset saving and import support