Yes, I was the first fairlight sales engineer. Gary Chang, Will Alexander and I were the core of the US company until the first expansion which included Dav e and many others.. Jeff
Thank you for uploading this presentation, back in the day. Great piece of history. If you still have the original, or original capture, it would be great if you could re-upload it as a single video now that RU-vid compression is not as strong as it was then (perhaps with some upscaling beforehand).
Robert Moog learned the commercial public what a synthesizer was and he opened the gate for all of us to electronic music. We love you and will never forget you!
Maybe they gained mutually from the venture: Bob some sum of money or some technological patent for his company, CMI the impact of being introduced by an electronic music guru and rival.
Yes, I know who Bob Moog is, what sampling is, and the difference between analog and digital. What I'm saying is, it's weird to see him present the Fairlight, because the Fairlight was a digital sampler, and therefore didn't have much in common with the kind of synthesizers he pioneered.
once at the frankfurter messe i saw an minimoogvoyager, one guy demonstrated it to me , real cool, but warm , nice , interested. talked 'bout the multimoog/voyager etc. a "toeristlikeguy" started taking photo's, of me ? it was my only meeting with bob, he was oke, and so are his synth's
EG's (Envelope Generators) in (for example) FL Studio Series DAW are part of all the synthesizers. NI Massive Might not even be around if not for him and thats just one! 3x Osc, TS404, SimSynth, Wasp, Toxic, (Synths) use EG's, filters, waveforms and all that! Dubstep, electronica, ect. could of possibly never existed if not for Moog and dev!
Nah - he didn't stutter or have any trouble speaking. He spoke VERY deliberately and clearly so people can understand... And does not speak from "canned" pre-written speeches. It's not slick - but it's real...
It isn't about what you use to create music, it's how the end result sounds. I've used anything from software samplers, to tape loops, to MPC's, right down to the talkboy pen.
Yeah, there are alot of smug pricks out there useing FL studio and other such software. I don't commend them much. But there are also a lot of other people using good synths and samplers(like the MC 808) That can do some amazing things with such equipment. wether they actually learned how to play the piano or not isn't a big deal, it's the creativity that I like about it.
Yep, I'm serious, dude! I said, "as far as I know", though, so I could be mis-remembering whatever I heard or read. Everything he's known for is analog, though.
It’s so coolhow he talks about the late 50’s by saying’25 years ago’ anno 2018 we can teach today’s kids by saying that the fairlight(2) was 35 years ago, haha.
@fivefoflow What do you use does not matter, It is what you deliver in the end that matters!!! Synths whether based on hardware or software have a lot of road to travel before being considered true human musical instruments. For many years now, the lack of immediacy and precision along with the lack of standardization on sound libraries and sound generation, among other things, is making any kind of synth/sampler considered as a "less instrument" by many different types of musicians.
I know they are, FL Studio doesn't have anything that sampler doesn't have, it is based off the sampler after all. Besides, FL Studio and other things inhibit creativity. I know all about the VSTs and everything as well as the hardware, Software just isn't worth it unless you plan on making some generic stuff.
Lol he wasn't socially challenged. In this clip, he's just trying to remember his speech. Because he is forgetting parts, it adds a little pressure, sounds like he could use a glass of water. Not everyone is good at speeches !
He doesn't have a speech impediment either haha. And if great inventors do, its probably because their brain is so choked up with thoughts, their bottlenecking lol.
Bob was always interested in new things, new technologies, and new ways to produce sounds synthetically. But we all know what became of this very limited technology, some 20 years later. Romplers were doomed from the start, much like the Mellotron (which unbelievably sounded better than this million dollar system. Listen to The Rain Song by LedZep). So bob wisely went back to what works best for creating original, and unheard of, expressive timbres synthetically: analog subtractive synthesis.
AlainHubert Romplers are still alive and well, as is my Mellotron! The new analog revival is interesting but people will always play samples as well, so it is still relevant.
