Fairlight-CMI

The CMI is 8 bit. You have to be very careful sampling into it.
Of course, it may be that yours has issues, but 8 bit sampling is pretty lo fi !
David


--- 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
>