Fairlight-CMI

> can you tell how he does the trick ?

Oh, almost forgot. If you can change the mode of the sound from 4 to 1 (or 1 to 4, always forget) the playback rules change so that it runs through the segments and loops each segment for a particular length of "real" time, instead of just playing the sample through at the commanded playback rate with commanded loop parameters. Allows gradual timbral development which doesn't "munchkinise" as you play higher notes. The colour of the note always develops at more or less the same rate. So in this case, the colour of the timbre is the vowels and consonants.

Anyway, that might also work.

With the CMI there always seems to be at least two ways to arrive at any observed effect.

Joe