(Fairlight) Load and Play Page R Sequence

[douro20]

First-generation Fairlight CMI isn't it?

[MontrealMan1970]

i get goosebumps hearing the fairlight in Jan Hammer's Miami Vice Theme

[RobertC19850209]

is there a program out for either windows or linux i could use to emulate this machine?

[ulisespaceprobe]

today a cell phone has more too much memory and speed process than that..

[NameNotaNumber]

A smartphone today has more processing power than the chips that launched and navigated the first Space Shuttle.

[nlewlad]

Most of the early pet shop boys traks where made on a farlight 2

[scott93257]

My first sampler was the Casio SK1...Now I have a mint Prophet 2000....IT's old school but still sounds and works awesome

[blisteranalog]

these things were like 30,000+ when they first came out...Herbie Hancock had one

[BRAKESUK80]

that was great,i loved every hit/note

[hybridtraffic]

man, I can't imagine how people using pc for making music in the old days

thumbs up

[rofthorax]

16K is enough for a second or two of 8-bit sample playback.. The poor man's fairlight of the time was the Ensoniq, at about 1200 dollars you couldn't beat it.. Also Apple later made a Apple IIgs that had the ensoniq as its sound engine. Too bad the IIgs was as fast as a PC XT.. And the ensoniq chip was the only thing the 4 voice Amigas lacked.. If only it had had that chip, history would be much different.. Take a look at all the 4 voice amiga euro demos.

[rofthorax]

Also I pined after the Casio FZ-1 . The first cheapest 16-bit sampler.

[dequadim]

Does anyone know if a Fairlight CMI emulator for PC exist or not?

[sEIGu]

afaik there is no one, the cmi's hardware was much to complex to get it on a simple emulator. there's a project emulating the ppg wave; don't know, if it now works.

but why should i want an cmi-emulator? any soundblaster does better sound today, the page r ist a pure relic of the 80s. i had a sampling-cd with the fairlights lib - and it was boring. sold it on ebay.

the fairlights charme may only be reproduced on the beast itself, with it's weight and dimension.

[buchla300]

Superb sequencer Page R

Some modern software packages could improve by looking back at it..

[youarelackluster]

agreed..

[DRGDJ]

o my good thats really old production software maybe you are in museum amazing to see it!

[Xevious76]

is an emulator or the original?

[AnalogX64]

The Fairlight is the reason the Petshop boys didnt go on concert for the longest time.. it was their main tool.

[ionia23]

I'd simply like to see an actual fairlight in operation one day. Yeah, it was the cadillac of it's time, and still can hold it's own...

[rg2027x]

this was the shit back in the day. I remember seeing Fairlight demonstrated in a music store everyone went completely bonkers over the presentation oooing & ahhing about the CRT. It was like nothing you had ever seen or heard at the time. we laugh at the technology now but artists and musicians crafted some legendary songs with this instrument and didn't let the limitations stand in the way of making music. makes you wonder what music technology will be like another 25 years from now..

[youarelackluster]

to be honest, it seems to me that this wouldnt be limiting at all. i'd love to give this a shot. on-the-fly sampling and everything. its funny that theres people who laugh at this stuff saying theres vst-samplers all over the place -- but ignore the fact they're bloody ramplers/romplers the lot of them!! :(

if anyone knows any other vstsamplers that SAMPLE other than morgana, please message me.

[ultragrid]

Try Emulator X. It has excellent Sampling features. I use it on a dedicated PC connected via MIDI over Ethernet to my Mac DAW. It is realy a Professional Software and i replace a whole RACK of EMU Ultras with it...of yours you need some nice AD/DA Interface...

[youarelackluster]

this is a great solution.. if you feel like buying a e-mu soundcard to get it working. i dont.

[basswerkrec]

the emulator x does sample brilliantly - the concept is brilliant but updating doesnt happen regularily

[blapo38]

Anybody knows where I can get a lightpen for a Fairlight IIx?

[LoveKandR]

Why not just have a couple of extra musicians playing percussion and another on keyboard!

[fishefood]

Because thats 1 aproach..but when you are going for a ''certain'' sound,or no ones around to jam/compose,or it's 1984 and you've got 3 days left to score that RAD soundtrack for ''Break'in 2 :Electric-Boogaloo'' This was the expensive option...

[kidowsley]

shit meant to give you a thumbs up but i hit the wrong one. sorry

[Polysixchick]

I want one!!!!! Its so basic but sooooooo cool!

[thesnake383]

The most you can find are samples for sale on ebay. No loops, just a full library of every sample from the Fairlight IIx. Good to use for a sampler or FL Studio. :D I got a DVD, and have the samples on my computer. Want em?

[ctspf]

Have u got the entire Fairlight sample library? Mmmm... How much is it???

[Downmaster]

I want a IIx, NOW :D Hey, just imagine a rig today that would have continued the spirit of advanced technology, a specialised PC for 20000 British Pounds! That might be something like a Mac Pro with Four Quad Core Processors, RAID 0 storage, 16GB of RAM and such...

[Dannysince1985]

the mac we have in the control room in our studio for pro tools HD cost about 8 grand alone it has 16gb ram and 4 processors, its daft its just the memory that costs you a bomb.

[HemlockDKiller]

Nice Sequenser^^

[MclarenF1CMS]

Thats crazy!

[RamzGT]

LOL!!! This is SO much better than Reason, thats for sure...

[k8fan]

Don't forget the famous/infamous "ORCH5" orchestral sting. Kate Bush's "The Dreaming" was the first song to feature it (confirmed in her Keyboard magazine interview). It's a horrible cliche now, but it was revolutionary then.

[sheepmeat]

The average Fairlight sold for about 45k US in the late 1980's -it was the "poor boy's" Synclavier. Then came consumer samplers like Emax, Akai and the Mirage. There is a lot to be said for retro. A computer based sampler is very nice but the filters and ADA convertors are not even close. Max Headroom anyone? Tangerine dream and Michael Jackson both used a factory preset from the Fairlight

[tyronix]

;) ;)

[therezabizarre]

i have one of these and it sounds a hundred times better but i guess this is a tight little demo of pcm sampled sounds.

[Patrickillian]

cool! :D

[PhuckHue]

The Fairlight with CD quality samples commonly used with Art Of Noise, Tears for Fears and Scritti Politti cost well over $100,000. Adjusted for inflation its more like $250,000. Thats a lot of bucks for one keyboard!

[PhuckHue]

gotta love that 12 inch floppy!

[ApolloBoy]

8 inch, not 12 inch.

[tfal23]

Try 8". The only thing that ever came in 12" is vinyl and possibly pizza. And definately not your phallus.

[HemlockDKiller]

12" is LP records.:)

[PhuckHue]

8? 12? what difference does it make, thats a big ass floppy!

[HemlockDKiller]

The 1st floopydisk is 8"(It's called "2D")

It has 1MB areas to write.

[hamwinkie]

It seems like yesterday when this was all new! It seems like yesterday when I played on this stuff, oh! I still use it! Peace

[gothec77]

hear the floppy roar :-)

nice demo of an ancient beast.