ART OF SAMPLING : JJ JECZALIK LIBRARY on a Fairlight CMI 

Thanks Alex. I did sample those sounds first onto the Ensoniq Mirage, and when I had the OP-1 sampled them on that... It honestly is night and day between anything else and the Fairlight :D

@@100ThingsIDo on the OP1 could the samples used for psb Always on my mind be put onto it? Do you have a resource for where I can get the sounds from please?

@@motormusic1 Hi there, I don't believe the PSB had made any of their samples publicly available or available for license. I have some of their samples that the person my Fairlight was purchased from was allowed to distribute but that comes with no license to also use. You might want to check the Fairlight CMI IIx library (comes with the Arturia Fairlight I think!) as they used and provided some of the samples for that! :D

Any chance you could send it to me Alex?

Thanks! Indeed, just as crazy to play back JJ's samples on the real deal! :D

Peter Vogel and the team at Fairlight made some magic. Each iteration sounds different but always outstanding :D

@@100ThingsIDo Legends!

As I find interesting ideas of how to display it I will indeed :D

Thanks, I really need to re-do this video it gets a decent amount of hits and I didn't take much time or effort in its creation! :D

Time machines are everywhere..... the Lexicon reverb also helps :D

I will , I have shot a restoration video on both the LARC and the Lexicon .. I just need to edit and make a commentary :D

I will see what I can find :D

Yep! Amazing how much they did with very short samples, JJ really used the limitations of the technology to create a unique sound :D

Fantastic sounds and JJ is a great guy so well worth the purchase. Unfortunately they are so iconic they are hard to use in. productions :P I'm lucky I also have some sounds from the AON period that are not available on this collection. :D

@@100ThingsIDoThere's some on the SIII library, right? My IIx has one disk that a previous owner claimed he wrote to AON to get a disk of sounds. He claims they sent one to him. But I need to see if they are from records or the JJ CD. That's his story, but it seems bit apocryphal now.

@@lotus30com I don't know if there are any sounds on the Series III library. Probably there would be as this is how the library's were built (from Artists as well as Fairlight) One 'extra' ones I have came from JJ's stash around the late 80's. :D

@@100ThingsIDo I'do have an image of a SIII hard disk that's been floating around the interwebs for a while. It's got a "JJ" folder. Are those what you're talking about?

@@lotus30com Potentially. If they are the ones I'm thinking of they really should not be floating around the web, they are part of a business arrangement between the artists and a going concern... but then its the internets.. you can find almost anything if you look hard enough :D

There is nothing like a Fairlight :D

It really is still a Dream to use :D and rare something goes wrong with such old technology!

@@100ThingsIDo You can thank (in part) a wonderful industrial designer named Alan Galt, who is no longer with us. One of the coolest guys I ever met. The CMI is built like a brick...thing. And that's just the frame. And of course, every electronic part can be replaced if need be. Even my 8" floppy drives (and diskettes) still work. Take that, other samplers!

@@sleat indeed, you are very correct. Alan did amazing industrial redesign of the Qasar M8 into what became the Fairlight mainframe, monitor and keyboard. I feel the look is as significant as the best of Dieter Rams!. I'm currently working on a project to bring a new CMI into the world (made of mostly original parts). I hope to pay homage to Alans design :D Thanks for dropping by!

@@100ThingsIDo One thing you may discover in "regirthing" a new CMI mainframe, is that some of the fasteners are custom-made. Alan stressed this when I met with him. The counter-sunk ~2 inch long Phillips-head screws for holding the top, bottom, and sides on are actually a custom design, not standard metric parts. Standard countersunk machine screws won't fit properly. I have a fair few, but if I ran out, I'd literally have to get on the ML-7 and make some. Oh, I should add, old Myfords are a marvel of good ID as well, considering they come from the 1940s. And along those lines, Alan was a mad-keen Jazz-hound. He had an amazing collection. I trust you will have good luck in your efforts!

Maybe I should............... :D

Old telephone exchange I suspect :D

Nice one! you will have to share the results :D

I'm playing with the idea of doing a video of the output of the same sample across the Fairlight , Mirage, EPS so the difference can be hear .. but at highest sampling resolution and lowest! :D

That would be awesome, any vid you make with the Mirage is highly admired!!@@100ThingsIDo

Thanks :D I'll try my best :D

I think I got my copy here : samples-now.com/Exclusives/exclusives.html. it was around $30USD I paid I think. :D

Nice work! I know for sure with a very quick chat with JJ that even he does not have his full Library any more! :D

@@100ThingsIDo wow

I always sample in via the sampler. That way you get the true sound of the sampler not only the outputs :D

Hey there, from the image I think I have seen you post a few things on the Facebook Fairlight groups. Andrei Kudryavtsev posted a good thread a while back on using a video scaler to fix the 512x512 issue. You can pick them up very cheap on ebay. Other than that my NEC monitor is the 1880sx I hate to say it but they are quite rare which is why we were hoping Chris Alfred could work some magic. Unfortunately this was not possible with the Fairlights old old Video Card. Once again Andrei knows a few other models that work. feel free to email me at my contact address (check about or drop your name here and I will msg you on facebook) for any further help you need :D

@@100ThingsIDo Thanks for taking the time to reply. I've just gone back and looked at the FB group and found the details about the scaler. Good advice. I was posting here as your NEC model is the screen I was after if I can't get mine to work. However, the scaler might ultimately be the way forward... I may contact you when I get stuck on other stuff!! :D Cheers!

I must say the audio engineering on those early AON releases is stunning! Very very tasteful! :D

@@100ThingsIDo "yes, the genius of engineer extraordinaire Gary Langan, his brilliance was splattered on all those 80's hits and it's a shame that in his age he can't remember those mixes or recording gear he used 😭😭😭"

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Hi Marc, its a Fairlight MFX II Alpha Keyboard (MFX - Music and FX) It was the final keyboard to support CMI functions before the company moved away from Sampling and CMI to pure digital audio workstations :D

@@100ThingsIDo Thanks for the prompt reply, I'll be sure to check it out. Seems like it could be a very useful style of controller for a modern DAW as well.

Yep, I believe Steve Rance still works for Blackmagic! :D

I will need to go back and check out! I suspects that's one of the few Kate Bush albums I don't have :D

Nope, that wasn’t sampled. She didn’t use a Fairlight until never for ever.

Yeh, I did cheat in the thumbnail but you can do it by dropping the red and blue signals from the VGA cable and get only the green. The challenge is that its a colour output from the CMI (quite rare!) :D

Unnknown, sorry man! But for sure most of its gone through a Fairlight, you can hear the signature :D

No idea unfortunately :(

"If you can find that Art of Sampling CD it was definitely on there. There's a Strings & Orchestra section and I remember hearing that clearly on the CD. Fun Times examining those sounds on Art of Sampling 👍"

@@johnhenningfield4360 At least is something to start searching thanks!

@@PhonkResurrection "and also there's another rare sampling CD that JJ Jeczalik did called Now That's What I Call Sampling which had tons of stuff from their ZTT era also, if you can find that you da' man 👍"

@@johnhenningfield4360 got that AMG now cd, i thought you was refering to another cd but i have art of sampling cd too, and the sound from roundabout isnt there

Multi Track sequencing, Multi stage analog filters (on sample input as well as each output voice), 16 voices standard each can have a seperate sound or with voice router the sky is almost the limit. Can be used as a DAW, Sound is unlike any other sampler I have used (very thick, fast with lots of Air on the top end). Has full screen monitor with many different pages for voice assignment, sound managment, sequencing etc... ... Its a totally different type of workflow! I do like the EII and most of the E-Mu stuff.. But the Fairlight is very different! :D

@@100ThingsIDo Interesting. Yes, the fact that it was its own DAW workstation in the 70s/80s was remarkable for the time. I had no idea the Fairlight had analog filters...

One of the very first multi track 44.1khz Audio recorders also! Only it and the Synclavier could do this until much later when ADATS etc.. came along :D

I use ( rarely ) the Emulator II Hd , more often a Fairlight Series III/Mfx2, among others like Emulator I , Fairlight IIx. Emu II don' t reach the dynamic of the Series III, EmuII can transpose only 2 octaves... Series III can transpose 10 octaves a single sound. You have much more hi end as you car sample @50khz vs 27 for the Emu II. I personnaly don' t like very much the Emu II. High frequencies sounds fake too. You have 32mb of memory on the S3 vs 512/1mo with the Emu II. Midi has a lot of latency on the Emu II, the sequencer is never in sync. Page R on the S3 is the tighter sequencer ever made. Stereo sampling on the Series III.

@@100ThingsIDo the ppg hdu was cd multitrack quality as well , the highest spec sampler for its time was the lmd 649 being 12 bit in 1980

Possibly, I think it was a collection of samples JJ still had at the time. Some are from the ZZT period and beyond :D

@@100ThingsIDook well I see.

Paranoimia, Paranoimia! :D So many classic samples :D

Yeah classic machine & sounds, early 80s i would never thought to own even 1 sampler or synth, it was like collecting Ferraris, now i got a house full of them…. not this one sadly :)

I was searching for mine on and off since 1990, I seem to of managed to pick mine up as the price dropped to the lowest point.. now they are on the way up again :D

Surely those 4 notes are from E.F.L?

I wonder how the sale of all his Drum machines went ! :D

@@100ThingsIDo sounds like he's having a cash flow crisis atm. "Earlier this year Moby sold over 100 synths from his collection including the Roland Jupiter-6 used on almost all of his early techno records, and sold off all his vinyl, including two first pressings of his 1999 album Play."

yep, JJ always made and used very interesting sounds. I think the best line up was when JJ and Anne Dudley were in the band... although I won't say anything they released was 'bad' :D