Introducing Fairlight CMI Legacy II+ (reason refill)

Introducing Fairlight CMI Legacy MKII+. Fairlight CMI Legacy MKII+ marks the introduction of a new release in the series of Fairlight refills, having been continously developed and updated for about a year and a half. Comparing the size of this new version with the original, it's pretty evident that lots has happened during this time. Six times larger than the original 400 Mb Fairlight CMI Legacy, introduced in April 2010, the new refill also comes with some stunning new concepts.

Technically speaking what we now have here is a Reason 4 and 5 compatible refill, loaded with no less than 2 304 instrument patches; 1 014 NNXT patches, 622 Combinator patches, over 190 ReDrum drum kits and much, much more.

Main news. All instruments are now divided into virtual machines. This is highly inspired by Elektron's Machinedrum & Monomachine grooveboxes. The Combinator graphics are brand new and unique for each machine / instrument. These have been designed with creative input and assistance from Kangebo Design in Stockholm, Sweden. All of the patches in the refill are named according to these instrument types, to make it easier to find the right sound when producing music.

These are some of the new instruments / machines in the refill; 4 UPETEUR. Analog Compuphonic Synth. AIRBASS. The total module for bass sounds. CHROME. Analog and chord synth module. DIG IT ALL. Digital synths. FAIRVOX. Fairlight Voices. ILLTURN 80R. Alternating patches. MEAN MACHINE. Edge and grit. ORLANDO. Analog JX Synths. P5. Analog synthesizer. THE LEGACY. CMI taken to new levels. THE ORCH. Orchestral with a twist. TWEEDLE. Keyboard sounds. UNDERCOVER. Drums, percussion and FX. XYLO 4N. Mallets. Last but not least; ZIGNATURE PATCHEZ.
Signature patches provided by DrLoop, Abstract Assasinator and EditEd4TV.

Background. Fairlight CMI was introduced in 1979 and it was the first ever keyboard instrument with digital sampling, ie recording of sounds and storing those in a computer-like fashion. The Fairlight systems of those days cost about 545 000 SEK; roughly 2 MSEK by today's value (about $350,000). The extremely high price combined with the fact that only highly successfull acts got to use it (like Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Keith Emerson, Howard Jones and many others) helped form a myth around the instrument. When I got the chance to use some original recordings directly from a Fairlight IIx I was instantly turned on by the idea of building a refill, since these sounds still are highly looked after. I contacted Fairlight in Australia and got a thumbs up about the project, and this has helped me build and maintain what today is the world's largest collection of Fairlight recordings. This is all available for Reason!

File size: 1,7 Gb (packed) or 2,49 Gb before packed with ReFill Packer.

To find out more and to order the refill, please visit http://bitley.laconicsounds.net - direct link http://bitley.laconicsounds.net/refills/fairlight

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[eiffe]

holy heck, your sounds and sequences are simply breathtaking!!

this software is no use with Ableton though, right? Is this a VSTi thing?

[bitleyTM]

@eiffe It's not a VSTi thing but Reason (which you would have to have as well) works perfectly with all ReWire compatible hosts, and can then be used in the way you would use a multi-timbre VSTi. Check out a demo of Reason and see if you like it. It's at Propellerhead's website.

[muzikman2008]

Wow!! Nice! And very inspiring... think i will buy :0)

[bitleyTM]

@muzikman2008 Thanks music man! You're most welcome.

[TokyoMadness4393]

Simplly history right here I dont think people really know how far back this technology goes back and the amazing songs this has created look at the classic vids from the 80s where people like Herby Hancock were using FairLight CMI

[bitleyTM]

@TokyoMadness4393 exactly, the fairlight was THE instrument

[partyeffectsdotbiz]

BEST REFIL EVER CREATED

[djs909]

This is the best refill on the market.

[Cytex75]

Asså...jag blir bara mer och mer sugen på detta refill när jag ser dessa videos...finns det nån möjlighet o få rabatt om m an varit 99 medlem ett antal år?? ;) skoja bara...kommer nog införskaffa denna refill när jag väl har råd :D

[bitleyTM]

@zero33AD Thanks! It's one of the demos I made, I will see if I can find it if you are curious and then I can post it to my SC page too. :)

[bitleyTM]

@jdgrecords You will find three versions of the Fairlight ReFill to order on my site. All three works well with Reason 6 but II+ works for R4 as well; XXL works for R5 as well; Platinum works for R6 only.

[jdgrecords]

Where is the refill? i just found the demo :(

[zero33AD]

Please please Bitley whats the tune called at 0:11 ?? its awesome but i cant find it on your soundcloud page!!

[bitleyTM]

@jeremyraywilliams The site is running just fine. Please try again :-)