(Fairlight) Load and Play Page R Sequence

using Page R sequencer of Fairlight CMI (early 1980's). System has two 8bit CPUs and share 4kbyte memory. It can play 8 voices at once! Each voice card has 16Kbyte (not mega or giga) memory (totaly 128Kbyte sound memory). Page R can program totaly 255 patterns. Each pattern can play 1-2 bar, 8 parts. When start Page R, CPU calls each pattern from flopply disk.

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Music

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• Sampler
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• Techno
• Trance
• Sequencer
• synthesizer
• keyboard
• vintage
• CMI
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• electro
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• musical instrument

[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..

[blisteranalog]

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

[douro20]

First-generation Fairlight CMI isn't it?

[NameNotaNumber]

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

[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..

[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

[basswerkrec]

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

[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.