Fairlight-CMI

Maybe a future upgrade – depending on how the app sells.  It’s been a very expensive development already!

 

From: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of SRRecords@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, 13 February 2011 1:32 PM
To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] ipad app

 

  

How about something akin to Aurora for iPad, which simply allows you to 
record any sample with the touch of a button? The Aurora samples are 
actually good quality (because the iPad samples them quite well). That 
is, it's the app that is taking advantage of what the iPad offers, not 
the other way around....perhaps the Fairlight app could do something 
similar, such that we could sample our own sounds (say, me saying 
"Hey") and subject them to whatever parameters are already in the 
thing. I mean, when people think "Fairlight" they think two things: 1) 
a certain "sound" perhaps made by the sounds made available by 
Fairlight at the time (or, perhaps because Trevor Horn was so 
successful, or they associate the sound with the mid to late 80s 
(check: there is a "25 greatest Fairlight albums" list on 
Amazon....and it's useful!); and 2) a "mega sampler." Most people who 
are familiar with it or what it does (i.e., the people who would care 
about the app, it seems), want to be able to "Fairlightize" their own 
sounds and also have access to some original sounds. We want to "be 
Peter Gabriel" as it were, both by using some stock sounds, and by 
putting our own stuff in there and messing around with it.

It's clear to me how easy it is to get the sounds in there. It's less 
clear to me how easy it would be to "Fairlightize" such sounds. It 
depends on what "original experience" is supposed to mean for 
iPad/iPhone users (that is: do they want sounds OR do they want to be 
Herbie Hancock et al for a few hours a day--these are two different 
(though overlapping) markets--some want both).....But if someone's 
paying 50 bucks for an app, they'll surely want to mess with their dog 
barking at their new born baby, or their baby barking at the family's 
new dog! Both are "musical moments." But both are surely "Fairlight" 
moments, going back to the first exciting days of the machine itself. 
You capture something new.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Vogel <peter.vogel@vogelfamily.net <mailto:peter.vogel%40vogelfamily.net> >
To: Fairlight-CMI <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Fairlight-CMI%40yahoogroups.com> >
Sent: Sat, Feb 12, 2011 9:02 pm
Subject: RE: [Fairlight-CMI] ipad app

Hi Colin,
 
Not sure what you mean here – do you mean files created on aCMI?  The 
app will let you load .wav files, but as there isn’t a standard wayof 
getting files of the 8” floppies we haven’t supported native CMI voice 
or RSfile import.
 
Re: Facebook page – you just click “like” and you’re thennotified of 
any postings.
 
Cheers
 
Peter
 

From: 
Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Fairlight-CMI%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Fairlight-CMI%40yahoogroups.com> ] On 
Behalf Of bty496052
Sent: Sunday, 13 February 2011 8:18 AM
To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Fairlight-CMI%40yahoogroups.com> 
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] ipad app

 
 

Hi Peter/all
I would love to know if the ipad app will allow me to load my own 
samples andRS files.
Cheers
Colin

PS you havent added me to your facebook page yet!