Fairlight-CMI

It has been interesting reading this thread for it reminded me of one of the most important gifts of my relationship with Fairlight. When I purchased my Series III in 1986, I was in my early thirties,and having been a middling success, guitarist, songwriter and record producer, the financial commitment was huge. As my attempts to make the investment pay slowly got off the ground I carried a deep fear and I was always trying to get Fairlight to deliver MORE for my money. I hadn't quite grasped that I had bought into the privilege of being involved with a cutting edge experiment, which meant there was always a gap between what was hoped for and what was possible, or even sometimes what was promised and delivered, although what was delivered instead turned out even better. It also meant that one had to take on a certain responsibility to learn enough to be able to improvise repairs and make adjustments with one's own resources.

It all worked out, but in a few years Akai, Roland and all the large corporate instrument makers were selling samplers that could fulfill most people's (simple) demands for a fraction of the cost: the business model was over.

The kind of "support" that we have seen being demanded in this thread, is the kind that one develops with large corporate makers. It is a parental, always there to take care of my yammering desires style of "support". And, to go momentarily off topic, it makes me wonder if that is why we tolerate this corporate owned world we now find ourselves in; we trade our freedoms for a parental type "guarantee".

Oh well, I am glad that the "mad" tinkerers like Peter Vogel can get on with it. They rarely reap the big rewards for their passion, those same corporate mothers tend to sweep it up.

So to the unreal Mssr. K, I would suggest (in today's parlance) "man up", or don't swim out of your depth.

The real,

Peter Kaye






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> Good afternoon Fairlight fans!!
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> Whilst the two Peters (and other members of the Fairlight Family) work furiously to get t



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> Rob Puricelli
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