Fairlight CMI demonstrated by Greg Sneddon

"Thats amazing mate!"

it was amazing for it's time.
i recoded some stuff back in the 80s. the band i was with at that time, used a fairlight cmi which belonged to producer Trevor horn of the Buggles.
the orchestral string sounds of the fairlight completely blew us away.
for those people that could afford the £60.000 price tag it was well worth it.
a friend of mine sold his old fairlight for £2000.
personally i think he should have kept it, but he needed the money.

yer, but lets face it, its near impossible these days to get that kind of sound without direct sampling.
You wouldnt want anything better than a fairlight because its too easy

price

Told me by Ben Liebrand some years ago via email: "A moder PC with a cheap audio card will do better than a Fairlight CMI" .

What a remarkable piece of technology, even by todays standards.
I want to own one now!

5 stars

Some of the later models could do CD-quality sampling.

I've worked with sound manipulation like this using Vienna but I'd imagine it's much easier on a CMI.

Sounds better than some modern samplers.

those devices were too expensive..!