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Hi Thomas,
good to hear you again...
Where were you hidden  ? ;- )

I couldn't agree more.
It's hard to realise what is a Fairlight till you don't use one. &  
have a look to  the voice cards ...
Series II or Series III have incredible ressources & a strong sound  
signature...
The dynamic & low end are astonishing !
You couldn't believe that it's 8 bits tech ...
No possible comparison to Mirage (maybe a bit), or Korg , or Akaï...   
Maybe with the EMUII somewhere...
Even MFX3 are blowing away any Protools system...of course the edition  
is limited compared to today's technology , but the Sound oh God ...
you have to hear it to believe it .
After if you have time you put your attenton to the technology on  
board & suddenly you realise why it's all so powerful...
But I guess it's not really the place to talk about them here. (I  
suppose Jesper won't be late to remind me that ;- )

about the SDX , still big attention on the Soft catalog limits !!!
  (no more than 50 instruments & 100 samples if I remember well...or  
each new sample will erase the previous recorded ones...)
so I confirm : SAVE !!!


bye,
Patrice.



Le 12 déc. 08 à 11:44, Thomas Heckmann a écrit :

> The big difference comes in the Fairlights (I'm talking up until IIx)
> sonic sound quality !
> Yes it's 8bit, but the best you could ever get in this direction, the
> dynamics and the uniqueness of it still blows me away !
> I own both a Fairlight IIx and a Simmons SDX and they are really hard
> to compare. And I own a tickle me Elmo also ;-)
> One thing about the SDX - if it wasn't mentioned before - SAVE SAVE
> SAVE ;-)
> I had many hours of sampling with the machine just to realize it hang
> up and all was gone...
> Best
> Thomas
>
> On Dec 12, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Patrice Jacquot wrote:
>
> > ???
> > On the paper from far I see what you mean... (not better than an 8
> > bits soundblaster I suppose ?)
> > but in the mixer ?
> >
> > Have you ever used one ?
> > opened one ?
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> > Le 12 déc. 08 à 10:44, Gordon Pearce a écrit :
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> >> Uhm, the Fairlight was a *terrible* sampler, long surpassed by the
> >> sampling capabilities of musical greetings cards and Tickle Me  
> Elmo.
> >
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> Thomas P. Heckmann
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