Fairlight-CMI

I´ll see if I can make some samples tonight.

Also, I´ll try with a microphone.

It seems that the noise is only heard when sampling bass-sounds with decay. 
Sampling a steady lowpitched waveform ( like a sawtooth ) from another synth 
doesn´t reveal the noise but that is understandable as the constant wave 
masks the noise. Even sampling a triangle or sine masks the noise.

WT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dd_62622" <dd_62622@yahoo.com>
To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:02 AM
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: CMI IIX sampling


Hi,

I think it's quite normal to have quite some noise in the samples.
I always assign control 1 to damping  c2 to filter and c3 on attack on page 
7
in that way you have some analog realtime control.
with the filter you can usaly kill alot of the noise....than I use EQ on a 
mixingdesk.
I hope your cmi is o.k.
with a soundclip others are able to judge..
did you try sampling other instruments or a mic ?

regards,
David

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "WT" <waveterm@...> wrote:
>
> I did connect to ADC just now and ran the 909 kick through my desk.
>
> Had to use a phase-reverse adapter to get signal into the CMI as it is
> unbalanced and pin 3 "hot".
>
> Made the sound slightly bigger ! Not much, but still larger.
>
> However, it still has a large amount of noise on the decay of the kick. I
> hope that my CMI is not broken.
>
> Can anyone confirm that this is normal for a CMI ?
>
> I can email a soundclip if needed.
>
> WT
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "dd_62622" <dd_62622@...>
> To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 9:49 PM
> Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: CMI IIX sampling
>
>
>
>
> hallo WT.,
>
> I gave up sampling at first ..the results where too poor.
> Than someone one this list recomended a active DI box .
> I tried again and there where some results...still quite poor.
> somehow I always used the filter /line input.
> only last week I tried the adc  direct input.,in combination with active 
> di
> I sampled a dx7 piano and wow.....
> for the first time I had good results......use the gain,max:*
> command on page 6 to pimp the sound.
> I was thinking....those guys who made the liberary used hi end compession
> enz. enz. enz. to get those results.
> they prob. did but the IIx is capable of pretty acurate reproduction of
> sound without any precompression.
> Realy...try to find the right di box and hook a synth up too it.,
> i used a high output vol. on the synth and the results are great sounding
> cmi sounds.
> the (cmi)dx7 piano actualy sounds warmer and has more depth than the
> original!
>
> cheers,
> David
>
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>
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "WT" <waveterm@> wrote:
> >
> > so...after a couple of months noodling about with the CMI IIx, I tried
> > sampling some stuff last night.
> >
> > First up was a kickdrum from a TR-909. Decay on the drum was to the
> > longest
> > and tune to almost the lowest, maximum click.
> >
> > It sounds like shit ! No attack. sounds distorted. And with a fizzel on
> > the
> > decay part.
> >
> > Sample rate was 30200
> > Filter low 3
> > Filter high 9
> >
> > Then it struck me, I was going direct from the 909 to the CMI IIx line
> > input
> > via a 1/4" mono jack to XLR cable. Tip to Pin 2, Sleeve to ring and
> > ground.
> > The CMI being 600 ohms on both the line in and mic in......
> >
> > Am I having impedanceproblems ?
> >
> >  Today I brought some passive DI´s and transformerboxes from work....but
> > it
> > doesn´t seem to make it better.
> >
> > Sampling the Snaredrum from the 909 sounds great though, but there´s not
> > that much bass in the 909 Snare.
> >
> > How are you guys connecting stuff to your CMI IIx inputs ? Are you using
> > external pre´s ?
> >
> > WT
> >
>