Demo video to support the eBay listing: TBD Unique restoration project explained in every detail, what's included with the system, condition, function tests and so on... read more inside the item description.
Considering how much computing power that today's workstations, laptops and desktops possess, it's amazing that at the time the original Fairlight was able to make recordings as sophisticated as Owner Of A Lonely Heart or Beatbox
And one of the added benefits of owning one of these is in wintertime, it makes a nice room heater while you're working with it too :) You're making me want to hook mine up again.
@@DeftAudio I just saw this a year later. Thank you for the offer to help, that is very nice of you. I still have not hooked mine up again. :( I wish I had the service manual, movers dropped my mainframe and dented the side with the hard drive which now clicks last time I booted it. It still worked then, but haven't booted it in quite a while
Basically the first real DAW from the early 80's. Amazing! Sure, primitive and clunky by today's standards, but remember that at that time a laptop or an iPad was just science fiction.
Indeed it's definitely not the kind of equipment that the itinerant musician would carry on the road. That would be analogous to Barry White making an appearance on Soul Train with the entire Love Unlimited Orchestra
I had one of these between 1988 and 2005. Amazingly dynamic-sounding library but the fans were horrifically noisy! I had to run it in the room adjacent my music room and run all the cables through a hole in the wall. The beauty of it was how quickly you could build blocks of patterns, it was so intuitive.
@@NeuronalAxon I'm guessing they fitted whatever was necessary to prevent it cooking itself. There was a huge quantity of devices packed on around 20 large boards (each 2mb memory board alone was around 8ins x 8ins), packed into a very tight space. I assume the airflow had to be pretty fast to be effective.
@@TheVickersDoorter - I think you're right - someone who refurbished a Fairlight said that there were 3 large fans on the bottom that had all failed and was causing it to trip a fuse after a few minutes use. I would have thought that they'd be a bit quiter and cooler if they were fitted with modern quiet fans and replacing their SCSI drives with CF cards etc. What type was your Fairlight and how much did you sell it for? Did it belong to anyone significant in its life?
@@NeuronalAxon I had two Fairlights. The first was a IIx in 1986, which belonged to Alan Parsons. That still had original sounds and score for Mamagamma, along with a Frankie Goes To Hollywood foundation track (Two Tribes) and similarly, The Art of Noise (Close to the Edit). The Series III I purchased new in 1988, from Stirling Audio in North London. I sold it in 2005 for around £5,500 to and synth dealer in Reading, as I needed the cash. It cost me around £36,000. Crazy money.
Ah so, this is a demo of the revival version. It's a wonderful thing to see that so many of the legendary synths and electronic keyboards from 70s and 80s are getting a slight makeover and a retool for this new millennium.
Anne Dudley and Trevor Horn ( A O N ) were masterful on the kit. Before they produced their first album ( Who's Afraid Of the Art Of Noise ), they worked with Yes on 90125
Every time I hear a sound played on a CMI, it reminds me of all the music produced in the Equalizer tv show from 1985. It has awesome characteristics. I’d like one, but that fan noise is gruesome. Great vid tho.
Просто чудо!!!! Файрлайт-моя мечта!!!!Состояние аппарата-волшебство! Вы не снимали сам процесс реставрации инструмента?Многократно пересматриваю ваши видео об этом инструменте!!В моей коллекции сэмплеров и синтезаторов более 30 инструментов-но вот Файрлайт пока не удалось раздобыть за вменяемые деньги, но я надеюсь это случится))))Спасибо вам Андрей!
Спасибо, Тимур. У этого экземпляра удивительная история, незадолго до своей смерти его приобрел Дмитрий Бодун, это 2007/2008гг, и в составе всей коллекции синтезаторов его выкупил мой очень хороший друг в 2011(ныне, к сожалению, покойный). Возможности его использовать не было, конфигурация была неполной, и частично неработающей. Я его выкупил в 2015, уже имея опыт восстановления CMI-II/IIx, III, MFX3, MFX3+ и вывез из РФ в 2016. Далее потребовалось несколько месяцев, чтобы его перебрать от и до, доукомплектовать клавиатурой (бывший владелец Stewart Copeland, The Police). Получился прекрасный инструмент, надеюсь, что новому владельцу он прослужит долгие годы. Вероятно, Вы также видели мою предыдущую работу над CMI-III/MFX (см. в канале), это максимальная конфигурация, также принадлежала Stewart Copeland. Весь процесс от и до попал в мой instagram: instagram.com/deftaudio
Back in the day ( literally when it was first coming out - the early 80s ), it could be had for £12000 or $16521USD. That's according to the article that I saw on Wikipedia.
I can understand the fist CMI or CM IIx, but to get this one, without the character of the lofi ones gets beyond me. The 3 series came out when other samplers were beginning to set new standards with their libraries. Can't point to a famous CMI 3 sound in the same way as the earlier series (Other than that it was top notch in quality for a few years before the Emulator 3 and S1000;s where killing the market) I mean 32 Megabyte of RAM for samples and a really noisy computer which would make it impossible to have a mic in the same room to sample with. Today you can get 32 Gigabyte of RAM in a dead Silent super powerful computer loaded with stuff like Reaktor, Omnisphere, Kontakt and so on.
Well, it has a character. You're right it's not a lofi machine as IIx, which I also have. Just completely different, very clean, with amazing filters, DAC and overall audio path assembly that Series II lacks. You shouldn't compare it with any modern PC... just leave it alone )))
It sounds better than any sampler I’ve heard by a long shot. If you work in the box, there is no reason. If you work with a mixing desk, the difference is huge.
Ha! To my surprise, CmiControl makes an appearance! I wrote this program back in 1999, with an update in 2004. It's over 20 years old! The aim at the time was to run Cubase and the CMI from the one keyboard and mouse. My CMI III is stored away for now, but will definitely be resurrected in the future. This video was recommended whilst I was watching the adventurous and entertaining Cris Blyth: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yBirEc_N2Y8.html PS: Ignore the rude demand for payment in the help file - it's free!
Great to meet you, so you're "Slogan"? :) CmiControl was a life saver and really the only solution until I've got USB2CMI adopted in every single project I do. But occasionally I still use CmiControl for the scripted keyboard tasks when I'm working on the data transfer from WORM or floppy. It helps to automate typing of commands. thank you for inventing it over a 20 years ago.
Одни комментарии?!? Претенциозные динки? Man... I hope you got what you wanted for it if not someone will buy it eventually. I've watched many videos of people looking for and restoring old keyboards so this isn't some obscure past time. This unit is a historic early sampling synthesizer formerly owned by the Police's Steward Copeland. Many keyboard enthusiasts know the value of this keyboard no matter how loud the fans are (use headphones or crank the amp) or the fact that is looks like a microwave. And I enjoyed your sampling and playing of it though briefly. There are plenty of videos on other people playing them. And so what if there are more powerful cheaper current keyboards or DAWS. Hopefully there are by now!... Compare a smartphone with a Apollo computer. Smh.
How could anyone possibly compose or work with that noisy fan going on beats the hell out of me....It sounds so noisy that I doubt you could hear yourself think let alone play music.
@@DeftAudio - I remember seeing this when Stew Copeland had it up for sale, i think he wanted something like $8000 for it if i remember correctly. How much did you sell it for after all your work, as if i remember correctly it wasn't working at all when Stew was selling it. Nowadays an Akai mpcx will blow this out of the water, and you can get S6000s for about £500, or just buy soundforge and use that for sampling anything you want, then cut it up to whatever size you want and use it in your DAW.
