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Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Heckmann
<troperecordings@...> wrote:
>
> The big difference comes in the Fairlights (I'm talking up until IIx)
> sonic sound quality !
I had played with a Fairlight II a good few years ago now. It had a
nice gritty character to it, something instantly recognisable.
> Yes it's 8bit, but the best you could ever get in this direction, the
> dynamics and the uniqueness of it still blows me away !
> I own both a Fairlight IIx and a Simmons SDX and they are really hard
> to compare. And I own a tickle me Elmo also ;-)
> One thing about the SDX - if it wasn't mentioned before - SAVE SAVE
> SAVE ;-)
> I had many hours of sampling with the machine just to realize it hang
> up and all was gone...
That's true of anything computer-based though ;-)
Gordon