At this stage it's just an idea, although I'm confident it can be done very
well using the CC-1. The question is how many people would pay say $5,000
for this, when you can buy other soft synths much cheaper. I would need to
be confident that there is a signifcant market to justify the investment in
developing it.
What do you think it is about the CMI that makes it so special, and does
that still apply today?
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Hi Peter
As a professional composer in electronic music i can tell you that there
would be a lot of people interested in that kind of emulation.
Also you're right with software update, its possible to push further the
concept while using the power of
today's dsp etc...
I guess a 24/32 tracks would be fantastic, and on the other hand the
possibility to switch from a FIIX to a III in terms of the sound i mean
would be really cool.
Are you really working on this ? If its possible to get involved in this
project i would be glad to help.
Best
Laurent Ash
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Le 5 nov. 08 à 20:32, Peter Vogel a écrit :
Hi Laurent,
Yes, I would think the CC-1 could do a huge number of tracks. How many would
you like?
It would use exactly the same variable frequency technology as the CMI.
The sound would be identical, except there would be an option to turn off
the "special" sound if you want, so you just get clean samples.
And of course the CMI emulation would be just one task running on the PC so
you can still run your other favourite toys in a different window.
Peter
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Hello Peter,
I think your project is very interesting. Does this mean that the
CC1
would be
able to emulate the variable frequency technology used in the CMI ?
And play
many voices in parallel ?
Regards.
Laurent.
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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Fairlight CMI series IV?
2008-11-06 by Laurent/LIFELIKE
hi Peter,
would need strong marketing and big artists endorsement support at the date of release, which i dont think would be
a problem im sure some of those artists that bought the real one in the 80's could still give their credits to the new one, while
the image of some fresh new artists already known would ensure the "new fresh" image of the product.
But maybe it would be also a great idea to do a little product line that would include only a Fairlight II/III emulation
and only in softsynth, with a little add-on (pci-e card per exemple). Like SSL did with duende if
i can give an exemple.
That would reach a wider audience, while the "pro" version would stay more with musicians
that have more money.
There's on the electronic music scene right now a huge kind of revival about the sound
from the 80's, i've met even people around their 20's that knew what a Fairlight CMI was
by checking the samples on the internet or buying old records per example.
This machine is a huge legend, not only to me.
REgarding the sound, i think, the 8bits thing excite a lot of musicians, if you check loads
of recents productions (in my field of music if i can say it like that) tries to give this 8bits style
of samples, and also all those big sounds coming from the CMI III, like the violons, human voices etc
have this cool thing that you can use it in doing other kind of music, movies, documentary etc...
It has that special recognisable sound, inimitable.
Also the sequencer made thing to get composed in a certain way that you dont find today, i work
with Cubase and Logic Audio but i dont think their sequencer is that interesting, what would be really great would
be that page R but with a faster screen refresh and the possibility to render tracks on the direct to disk sequencer after.
Or the entire sequence, to be able to cut thing and do whatever.
I hope i didnt bother you with my comments :-))
Best regards
Laurent
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On 6 nov. 08, at 13:21, Peter Vogel wrote: