Fairlight CMI III
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From: caysieunicorn
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  • That melody bares resemblance to Propaganda's "Dream Within A Dream" from the album "A Secret Wish".

    I would love to get my hands on a Series III.

    I previously owned a Series IIx.

    Cheers from Sweden.

    JarreYuri 9 months ago

  • Don't be diss'n tape. I'll bet it out performed the system from which it originated. Thanks for posting this. I love such creative innovations. I really wish modern technology could do with greater quality what old technology would let you do creatively.

    wado1942 10 months ago

  • First of all let me say that the Fairlight was fantastic ....

    For it's time, when sampling and computer based sequensers where

    absent. The truth is that what really made the Fairlight so incredible was it's sound library. And the producers that worked with the Fairlight.

    If you plugg a pair of cords without effects into a Fairlight, and plays

    throug some disks.... you end up quite confused, "was that all there was?"

    Add effects and a good producer and a good song, then : aaahhh Fairlight !

    caysieunicorn 1 year ago

  • Oh man, this song is so Pet Shop Boys' stile!

    dysphoricrealm 1 year ago

  • I think the studios should have still hung on to their Fairlight synths, this really wasn't a domestic machine.

    Penguindog55 1 year ago

  • very nice. synclavier II & fairlight in the 80s. up to 145.000 $

    slaytalix 1 year ago

  • The GREATEST Synthesizer/Sampler- Workstation that was EVER been made!

    Period!

    KRAFTWERK2K6 1 year ago 2

  • B I G B L A CK , ALBINI

    oiyabastard 1 year ago

  • i'd love to hear more songs from "northern unicorn"

    whalerofthestars 1 year ago

  • i wonder what the touch was like compared to say.... the yamaha KX88

    mysticradio 1 year ago

  • i remeber getting a blue demo lp from them in 1980 when it first hit the market. ...til this day i always think of this remarkable instrument and the music that was created on it.. LMAO i would never forget the day i called a bank and ask for a 40k loan just to buy it. As of now im telling the newer generation of keybord players about the fairlight and what it did for the music worl in the eighties.

    lookingbill1 1 year ago

  • There is a Fairlight refill for Reason now. I am making it. You can see my profile for a short descriptive video. The refill is available from powerfx.

    bitleyTM 1 year ago

  • A great synth!

    Teleintervisioncom 1 year ago

  • does anyone know what the fairlight keyboard action was like?

    mysticradio 1 year ago

  • pff refills pls

    therealb3yond 2 years ago

  • This is a fantastic insight into this magnificent beast. thanks for posting

    Vacher12 2 years ago

  • This model was capable of 16-bit CD-quality sampling.

    douro20 2 years ago

  • What a fat and clean bass sound you have got there (listen from 2:12). :D

    Very AoN-like and thats really good:)

    We want more of this!!

    KUTGW,

    //Thomas

    TheRealT11 2 years ago

  • what is a mp3?

    kekenalii 2 years ago 9

  • The real thing is great, believe me! I have it and it is fun, fun, fun.

    jupiterter 2 years ago

  • I have the fairlight refill for reason lol

    dj2bklyn 3 years ago

  • There IS no fairlight refill...for now.

    taggartjs 2 years ago

  • how can you say that I have it taggarjs

    dj2bklyn 2 years ago

  • Ummm...because it doesn't exist. You must be mistaken about what refill you have.

    taggartjs 2 years ago

  • Ok whatever shmuck I have the refill just because you don't know it exists doesn't mean that its not out there I have it you don't so it doesn't matter what you say to me I own it you don't!

    dj2bklyn 1 year ago

  • I'd really love to have the MP3 of this!

    thesnake383 3 years ago 3

  • Great stuff...The Fairlight system was for the more financially able keyboardists...I always dreamed of having one...ahhhh the beauty of these machines

    scott93257 3 years ago

  • The Synclavier was even more expensive and appealed more to Americans... mega rich american artistes tended to own them (apart from Eurythmics' Dave Stewart)... most Europeans preferred the Fairlight and Emulator... which was also a cooler machine...

    I adore the Fairlight CMI II...

    I have the WHOLE official un-processed sound-library if anyone is interested... but only in 16-bit rather than the Fairlight MK2's 8-bit...

    macintosser 2 years ago

  • Ohhh, watch your mouth about the Synclavier!

    MarsHottentot 2 years ago

  • And what is it I am supposed to have said, that warrants your comment;-)?

    macintosser 2 years ago

  • Now I KNOW You Di'Nt Just SASS me!

    MarsHottentot 2 years ago

  • I am never cheeky;-)

    macintosser 2 years ago

  • You still have the mp3 of this?

    thesnake383 3 years ago

  • Beautiful. Thanks for posting!

    spacecricket 3 years ago

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