Fairlight-CMI

Sigh.

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In old radioactive, smoky Russia, they have a saying...

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плохому танцору и яйца мешают

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Plohomu tantzoru i yaytza meshayoot, or "A bad dancer is═thwarted even by (and blames)═his own balls!"

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And in the hands of an imbecile, even a Stradivarius has a rather nasal honk.

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Evidently the author wishes he'd invented the CMI himself. Or maybe his brother in law has a load of old EIIs to flog, or perhaps an EII emulator VST softsynth. Would that be an E squared═II?

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One thing about the EII, it's a great deal simpler than even a series I, with fewer parts, and architecturally an EII has more in common with an Ensoniq Mirage than a CMI.

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"This foolish contraption, what do they call it, a keyboard, a typewriter? More like a type-wronger!═Supposedly a great literary tool; What a load of codswallop! See here, I push both fists down on the keys like so, and look, only gibberish comes out on the paper! Why, a lump of charcoal is a bigger boon to literature than this ridiculous thing!

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He also═seems to have conveniently forgotten that from about 1980 to 1983 it was one of the only sophisticated music and rhythm═sequencers a person could buy, certainly one of the only ones with a built-in synthesizer! But hey we all know that don't we?

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Joe

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