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Re: CMI IIX "Old Strings" factory sound?

2010-03-31 by tomulcahy

This is a list of the disks on Rob Brady's CD, which he said is "mostly" from the pink library:
http://www.pro-rec.com/samplecds.html

Incidentally, it seems that a lot of CMIs do not have a complete library. It's been suggested before, but it would be great if there was a formal method of imaging disks for users to copy.

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "WT" <waveterm@...> wrote:
>
> Is there a list of the Pink Library ?
> 
> I have the Blue library ( almost complete ).
> 
> What is the story behin the different colours ?
> 
> WT
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "tomulcahy" <tomulcahy@...>
> To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:28 PM
> Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: CMI IIX "Old Strings" factory sound?
> 
> 
> Thanks Rob,
> 
> Peter's pdf appears to be of the blue library, because it is not the same as 
> the pink library.
> 
> As far as I can make out, neither library contains this "Old Strings" sound.
> 
> So how did it come to be so widely used? It's almost as ubiquitous as 
> Sararr/ Arr1. Incidentally, why does that one have two names?
> 
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Robert Brady <rbrady@> wrote:
> >
> > There are TWO versions of the IIx factory library: Blue & Pink ( so named 
> > because of the color of the labels ). They're mostly the same, but there 
> > are some differences too.
> >
> > When I made the sample CD of the library it was mostly from the pink one.
> >
> > Sorry can't help you more.
>

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