Fairlight-CMI

A punch in the stomach for all CMI owners....
"I am referring to the pile of junk marketed between 1979 and 1985 :  )"

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug00/articles/emuretro.htm

must read for all fairlight owners

cheers,
David

Why do you guys still use your fairlight? What purpose does it serve to 
you in your studio?

THanks

It is a promotional piece for the emulator II.

and you may have missed "I find nothing jolts people out of their
complacent acceptance of supposed greatness as comments along the
following lines: "Mozart got as much out of the symphony orchestra as the
average Country and Western singer gets out of a 12-string guitar;" "

I wouldn't loose sleep over it.

> Sacre Bleu!!! Disgraceful!!!
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> P
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> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:15 PM, dd_62622 <dd_626@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> A punch in the stomach for all CMI owners....
>> "I am referring to the pile of junk marketed between 1979 and 1985 : )"
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>> http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug00/articles/emuretro.htm
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>> must read for all fairlight owners
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>> cheers,
>> David
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> --
> Peter Connelly, Director
> Universal Sound Design Ltd
> www.universal-sound-design.com
>

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:31:54 +0200
"Harald Feldmann" <feldmann@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> It is a promotional piece for the emulator II.
[...]
> I wouldn't loose sleep over it.

Well, I'd say not promotional but of an enthusiast.

...and, to be honest, he's quite right here: the default setting of 
tracking filter does affect perception negatively, especially with
CEM chips. Turn the filter off and it's a totally different beast...

-- 
"I went into a general store, and they wouldn't sell me anything
specific".
		-- Steven Wright

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 13:14 +0100, Peter Connelly wrote:
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> Promotional is usually focused on the actual item being focused with
> the odd "indirect" neutral sounding reference to its competition. I'm
> not losing any sleep over it. We all know how the story began and
> ended.

For me it ended with an ESI4000 in my rack, an Ensoniq EPS and Mirage in
daily use, and a Fairlight CMI, out there, somewhere, waiting to get
snapped up as a project at a price I can afford.... <turns out pockets>
£6.74 and a couple of BNC connectors, anyone?

Gordon MM0YEQ

Actually Wiff is one of the most accomplished synth programmers alive. His opinion is actually worth listening to. 

If you like it, it's "breathy", if you hate it it's a "nasal honk" (with or without filter). 

Although I do agree that in some ways he doesn't get it- for example, criticising the cello on Army Dreamers? If Mrs. Bush wanted it to sound like real cellos, she would've got real cellos. On the other hand, 20,000 back in the day for a type of distortion pedal was a bit much!

Sacre bleu! ;)

I have to admit I kinda like the poetic chagrin of the autor. : )

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski" <rambo@...> wrote:

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> Dnia 24 Sierpnia 2010, 08:52, Wt, tomulcahy napisa³(a):
> > Actually Wiff is one of the most accomplished synth programmers alive.
> > His opinion is actually worth listening to.
> 
> Did nobody notice that the whole article:
> a) was written 10 years ago,
> b) is entirely tongue-in-cheek?
>

Dnia 24 Sierpnia 2010, 08:52, Wt, tomulcahy napisał(a):
> Actually Wiff is one of the most accomplished synth programmers alive.
> His opinion is actually worth listening to.

Did nobody notice that the whole article:
a) was written 10 years ago,
b) is entirely tongue-in-cheek?

I don't think it's tongue in cheek, I think he was genuinely peed off that the IIx did not live up to his expectations, having had a lot of experience as a synth programmer. This is the guy that created the famous Synthex Laser Harp patch. Hence the chagrin. :)

my emulator II sounds good but the IIx is way warmer and fatter. must have been listening on poor monitors.

anyway.. he says a piano sample on an eII sounds more realistic than a cp80?? i don't think so.

Well, it sounds more like a grand piano than a cp80 does. CP80s tend to just sound like CP80s. Piano on IIx sounds... like a IIx :)

But seriously, back then, the K250 and the EII were the most realistic sounding portable pianos.

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "elanb" <lobit12@...> wrote:

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> my emulator II sounds good but the IIx is way warmer and fatter. must have been listening on poor monitors.
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> anyway.. he says a piano sample on an eII sounds more realistic than a cp80?? i don't think so.
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