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From: Harald Feldmann
> Recreating a Fairlight sound completely in software ruins the market for a
> unit. Keep that in mind.
Good point, but I'm not sure it's always the case. There are always people
who want the original instrument for the satisfaction of owning it. With a
limited number of working Fairlights available, I'd expect there will always
be enough people to buy with that motivation.
On the other hand it can only be good if those specific sounds are available
to as many people as possible. If Fairlight was still in business making
new instruments it might be a different matter, but with the limited pool of
existing instruments it seems good to make these sounds more widely
available.
Personally, I use samplers with much longer sampling times than the
Fairlight II series, and I use those longer times to the full, so for me a
Series II might be fun but it would certainly never be essential. (I'm not
sure how long the sampling time was with the III.) It's very unlikely I'd
ever buy one, and if I did I might be taking one that someone else would
make much more use of. I'd seriously consider a software alternative,
though. I use one or two classic Fairlight samples already (mostly out of
historical interest, as generally prefer making my own samples, synth
sounds etc), but a software emulation would be a whole new area. I wonder
what might happen if Fairlight put their name behind a collaboration with
Arturia or someone like that? I'm assuming Peter and Kim still have the
rights to the Fairlight name.
One thing that does interest me, incidentally, is making sounds by drawing
them physically. That's something no one ever really seems to talk about.
I remember Kate Bush saying they sound too artificial to be really useable,
but that's the only comment I can ever recall. Of course I've heard the
results on several TV programmes featuring the Fairlight.
I think that's the kind of area where a company like Arturia could really
score if they emulated the Fairlight. They have a knack of surpassing the
limitations of the original instrument. The drawing option for modulations
in their 2600V is a prime example.
Incidentally I think sampling continues to be a much maligned and
misunderstood art. I find it very creative.
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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Recreating the Fairlight
2008-06-23 by Laurent/LIFELIKE
for a modern use, it is not possible to integrate that in your mixes, you can find
hardware that sound as weird for 200$, per exemple, the CASIO FZ-1, its the same kind
of hardware, mono output etc...
To get a decent high quality mixdown you would need a SSL or so with the Fairlight IIx,
so each musical period has its intrument, today it goes with VST synth, in 10years everybody
will laugh about VSTs (i agree that they doesnt sound that good), but VST will have their own sound,
even if they are copies of original, they have a kind of sound...
l
Le 23 juin 08 à 15:57, Andrew a écrit :