Bob Moog Fairlight part 2

[turquoisecapricorn]

And Dr. Moog is right when he said that it is the sound that counts; it doesn't matter where it comes from. This new way of working - with samples - has opened a great new world of music making.I now think on the music of Fad Gadget("Ricky's hand") and Depeche Mode( "People are people") where samples became part of the music.

[turquoisecapricorn]

I agree, Dr. Moog should have a big statue and to be original: a statue created with all the components of his moog-synthesizers!

[ACDC7369]

Dr. Moog was a true genius.

[raymangold22]

1980's touchscreen, lol :p

Oh how technology hasn't really changed, but rather, gone backwards.

[jhanalog]

Hello...I think this was a series I at the time I produced this video. 1983.. Anyway I just restored my IIX and I have another IIX that I think I can get going again. Great fun in those digital pioneering days ! I did a presentation for the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences with SFX from the first TRON movie. If you search YouTube for "CRAS TRON" you can check it out. I love the new iPhone Fairlight ap..

[mootbooxle]

The Rhodes sample is pretty great! I didn't realize that the CMI could do multisamples. Is this a IIx?

[TheFederalDrugs]

with everyone here. moog. modern music starts with this man. i love his enthusiasm for a product that might have destroyed is own....at the time...but of course, we know how it panned out. you can get a fairlight on your iphone but you still have to pay over 2K for a Voyager. which i did....sigh.

[ratatulsuprem1]

i want to learn history

[Penguindog55]

Did he just say touch sensitive keyboard?

[anemovatis]

I love how he stutters sometimes.

[LsBaba]

The sound of the floppy drive brings back memories. Ah. Those were the days :)

[sonic503789]

@LsBaba damn good days

[KyleUnwin]

it might not look great but what we have to remember is, without Bob Moog music wouldn't sound the same now and electronic music would probably not be anywhere near the level it's at now in terms of equipment, programs producing!

[mtsn]

6 seconds to get a sound working from the floppy. While this, the drive itself does a solo.

[THEH4VOC]

!!!!ELDER GOD OF SYNTHESIZER!!!!! >>>R.I.P.<<<

[skyprop]

"You have a virus on Floppy A"

[skyprop]

listen to those floppy drives work :)

[JohnnyTheWolfLupino]

Fascinating insight into the dawn of sampling technology.

[EendjeKwak]

Haha, the sound of the disk drive. :D KRrrr. :) Those were the days.

[vjrei]

And now they are doing reggaeton with that.

[Meteotrance]

I wonder if Bob Moog are the official importer of this australian keyboard in the USA during this period, the most impressive stuff of fairlight is this stuff have one of the first digital sequencer with the sampler !!!

[fdambra]

he seems so nervous but hes cool

[eriknyquist123]

6 seconds for one sample, and nowadays its probably more like 6 nanoseconds. amazing.

[jimib5863]

He s very shy.

[jimib5863]

Very dated and very technical amazing how we can do this now off pirate software and a cheap midi keyboard so taken for granted.:)

[orlandofriend]

this machine is NOT timeless... whereas the moog synths are.

[pacific707]

@orlandofriend  Agreed!!!

[coffeehigh420]

at 8:40 the sound coming from the floppy drive is exactly the same pitch, sound, and tempo of the first 2 bars of the intro of "Good Times, Bad Times" from Led Zeppelin !!

PLEASE youtube this song and you'll see what i mean !

Dr. Bob is a genius by the way, of course, this goes without saying.

[EiBmaennchen]

the sound of the floppy drive is more awesome then all the other sounds xD

[Tittlekopf]

@EiBmaennchen Forget about the floppy sound... the most awesome sound is the fairlight cooler....like i've sampled it for my track "Black Hole"

[jermymiller]

@EiBmaennchen At that time, this sounds a truly wonder

[ninetynine39]

B. Moog- Pioneer of analog/digital music synthesis. For all his hard work...and those adding to his effort... Thank You!!

[pmsan29]

Why is Bob Moog promoting the CMI?

Did he work for Fairlight part-time?

Just curious!!

[harmonicsynthesizer]

A great man!

[inofaith]

People wouldn't be as patient today.

6 seconds for 1 sample :)

if they would only know that every mac has garageband now and what others do with more advances software :):):)

[DigiPal]

Yes, today, just record a sound, in your prefered audio software, and reuse this sound dropped in a sampler software... In a minute or 2... This real expansive keyboard was somekind designed to be use in studios more than live.

[evthurobred]

It was the 1st sampler that could also harmonize sounds (digitally). In other words, you could sample something and pitch it up and down. I love the sounds of this machine, but damn if I had to use it today, I'd throw it out the window in 15 minutes.

[craigaspin]

Two Great icons together ! Bob Moog RIP

[zeffii]

RIP good man

[dpatrocchio]

che tenerezza!

[DonJuanDeMarco2]

Somone get him a glass of water for gods sake

[evthurobred]

haha

[DonJuanDeMarco2]

It was the first sampler right ?

[skalkmusix]

the first sampler was the Mellotron!

[DonJuanDeMarco2]

Aha cool

[foojoku]

I want that black keyboard he has there... the sound it makes beats the pants of a model M even!

[Tittlekopf]

OMFG .. the Fairlight crashed at the beginning. You can reset the CMI at 0:10

Note the very fast loaded System... no today sampler is as fast as that

[rofthorax]

Note, there is a C64 program that plays Daisy on the 1541 floppy disk drives..

[rofthorax]

Light pen is the one I miss.. How those work is the CRT scan hits the light pen at a particular place in the scan, and when the light pen sees the scan, the computer marks where the scan is, and approximates the location on the screen where the light pen touched.. The Commodore 64's had them, I used them to paint with, but they were extremely inaccurate unless optimized for a particular monitor (and color) which would probably make them more accurate.

[jhanalog]

I remember core memory. I had to work on a NEVE NECAM automation system a few years ago and restore the core based mini computer..

[0prahTV]

floppies, monochrome display, typewriter-keyboard... old freakin' school

[Anemoniac]

This man should have a statue.

[bissia]

@Anemoniac and an avenue name ;)

[Kester2020]

This is Brian Eno. In the future. Talking about the 'touches' he's just added to the new Coldplay 3000 album.

[kirkmach32]

Not only could the guy create mechanical things, he could transcend academicia and make the complex sound reasonable and somewhat simple. What an intellect.

[whiteman156]

Bob Moog was very nervous but funny either. Unfortunately he died in 2005...

[mslaerik]

lazer pen on screen instead of mouse! and yeah i remember floppies and tape drives

[lennoxido]

mouse sucks!!!

[cybercow222]

this man is a genious

[bassmangroove]

yep,

8" Floppy

I remember them,

That was amazing tech considering we were using punch cards not long before that.....if only cars developed so fast.

[alphabeets]

No man, those are like 8" floppies!

[hombrecabeza]

5 1/4 DISK!!!!

[SynaMax]

Simply amazing...I've been waiting to see this for a while now. Thanks for uploading!