I'm Building a Fairlight CMI: Episode 11

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Cris Blyth is a brave man. He has a dream of taking a Fairlight MFX and upgrading it to a Fairlight CMI Series III. In this episode, Cris works hard (too hard!) to solve a mouse problem, has an adventure mounting a SCSI2SD card, and gets a USB port installed.
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@Daphoid Год назад

Just a guy tinkering in his basement til 4AM on bleep bloops. The dream indeed.

@bnjmnwst Год назад

I'm going to get a t-shirt made. It will say, "That was a horrible experience... Let's do it again."

@FasaFeu Год назад

hahaha

@LasseDamgaard Год назад

40 minutes mostly about getting a mouse to work. I love it. 😂

@quantumsingularitystudios1772 Год назад

Those video shots on the bike are always mint, you're a master craftsman.

@DonSolaris Год назад

Damn!!! I know I've seen this man before!!! It was something Hollywood related stored in my memory. A minute later and I remember! It's the guy with Amiga 4000 from the YT video called: "A titanic find on this Apollo 13 computer! Amiga movie magic". A great video to check it out!

@CrisBlyth Год назад

Oh, that's the evil Cris... I found him, and had to eliminate him..... hehehe

@johnvcougar Год назад

I think this is what Tracy Kidder meant when he used the title “The Soul Of A New Machine.” Big effort, mate!

@russellyoung6498 Год назад

Brilliant stuff as usual Chris, never give up!

@mitfreundlichengrussen1234 Год назад

the mouse-passage was really hard to watch - honesty sometimes hurts people. Thanks so much for sharing the wormhole you fell in.

@CrisBlyth Год назад

I’ve always tried to show everything ‘warts and all’ even though afterwords I’m cringing at my pig headed ness and non logical brain… read the manual, dammit :)

@dazboot2000 Год назад

Hi Chris good to see you back (or have I missed something) getting the mouse working was a joy to watch. I’m a software synth user and I’ve dabbled in a bit of electronic’s construction (nothing like on the scale your working on) so finding your video’s totally fascinating to watch

@keyscook Год назад

Gads... @ 7 minutes, I'm yelling at my phone, " don't plug in the mouse and keyboard with the power on or you'll need to reboot! Come on, brother! * Certainly hope you're walking on a anti-static mat and grounding yourself because one shock in the wrong spot you're screwed... I would cry... with you. Good luck and cheers from Seattle! 🍻

@CrisBlyth Год назад

yeah.. my mistake.. As you know on most USB interfaces, they get scanned for anything new appearing on the bus, but with the teensy, I should have known due to the limited CPU power, it wouldn't be scanning all the time..

@FLH3official Год назад

Another great video about the CMI adventure!. Thanks Chris

@tymiklic6463 Год назад

awesome ...awesome ...i am loving your pigheadedness chris ...it is truly inspiring...cant wait to see more...Ty from s.oz

@KeirMurphy Год назад

So many projects are like this. You do all the hard stuff, it all goes pretty well. And then the smallest but critical part of the process becomes an utter blocker.

@ScoopDogg Год назад

love the way you leave all the comedy gold moments in the video, some youtubers wouldnt dare bare their soul showing their human faults. love it, sub earned and a like, the usb board, just had a thought go wireless using a dongle in the usb so keyboard and mouse are wireless, socket problem sorted lol

@CrisBlyth Год назад

Why thank-you ! I decided long ago to leave in all of my mistakes and idiocy.. There's sadly so many ! :) but hey, here we are.

@fdschuler7863 Год назад

The upgrade was the other way. Series III was upgradeable to the MFX. We did this in the early 90's. And built another 8 voice series III before that.

@CrisBlyth Год назад

Wonderful ! Wait a minute..Where was RU-vid and your good self in the 90's ! I could have used your help... would have been condensed down to one or two episodes ! :)

@youbecha64 Год назад

Oh, I guess you re-uploaded to fix that stuttering video problem...I guess I will have to rewatch then!

@ToTheGAMES Год назад

Love it! I need more episodes.

@johnvcougar Год назад

Watching the whole series a few times helped me! 😅

@CrisBlyth Год назад

working on EP12 RIGHT NOW !

@ToTheGAMES Год назад

@@CrisBlyth Awesome! We will see it when its time 😎

@craigie13 Год назад

Blimey... I'm now 61. I'm sure I was 21 when I watched the first episode.... Lol

@marknhopgood Год назад

Filenames include balls, fart and funk. Classic! 😀

@barcodenosebleed5485 Год назад

This is particularly validating as you seem to have the same disorganized, slightly impulsive, wrong-tool insanity approach to building things as I do! Great to see this kind of thing in lieu of the overly produced, workshop-full-of-$100k-equipment that is the norm on the big "maker" channels. You show your mistakes as well, but nonetheless you are having continued success/productivity.

@kevinhartnell2075 Год назад

Excellent, as usual! Where can a person purchase and download the theme? I really like it!

@CrisBlyth Год назад

you’d like the theme song ?

@kevinhartnell2075 Год назад

@@CrisBlyth Absolutely, if possible. The theme that starts at :30 is so good! I don't mind paying to support the artist as well, so "free" is not expected or assumed.

@ScoopDogg Год назад

would a PS1 socket keyboard & mouse rewired have worked better since it doesnt require the pulse hi detection from a computer like how windows keyboards dont work until they are booted up into windows if using usb, but the ps1 socket works in Dos due to it just working like switches as it doesnt need the 5volt and requires no drivers

@CrisBlyth Год назад

Exactly.. I need to find the 'right' kind of Microsoft Serial mouse for it to work on the MFX keyboard.. however, we have a solution !

@har234908234 Год назад

I wish that clock worked

@ralpix6240 Год назад

The "future me" of this episode is also the "past me" of the next installment, right? Perhaps the two should occasionally talk to each other to pass on what has been learned so far... ;-)

@kenwhelan7920 Год назад

Hi Cris good video for the artwork on the new front cover you could do your artwork yourself and have it printed on vinal which is quit inexpensive and will yeald profesional results just take the artwork on disk to a local sign shop,keep on goings are you going o restore the donar machine????????

@CrisBlyth Год назад

Oh, there's not enough left on the donor machine to resto........ hmm.... wait a minute. :)

@CrisBlyth Год назад

also… wait until EP12 … more will be revealed

@Lantertronics Год назад

If someone were to actually go through the profound pain of recreating one of the Fairlight boards, what board would be most useful to recreate?

@CrisBlyth Год назад

I’d say a cmi31 or cmi331 card. they are getting rarer, have less common components and are usually in dire need !

@Lantertronics Год назад

@@CrisBlyth I just spent a few minutes looking over the CMI-31 schematics -- it's bonkers. It's a very brute force design.

@Lantertronics Год назад

@@CrisBlyth I see the CMI-331 has a weird filter module for the antialiasing filter.

@Lantertronics Год назад

@@CrisBlyth Oh and this is very interesting -- the CMI-331 doesn't seem to use a Curtis or SSM filter chip as far as I can see -- it uses a state variable filter based off the dbx2150 VCA chips. I don't think I've seen that in any commercial synthesizers, except for some of the later Serge modular stuff I think. (You could use the modern equivalents from THAT Corp).

@mrdali67 Год назад

All this is so hit’n miss. Think I have followed this for years now, and only making small progress every now and then. Still fun to watch tho 😊 Question: Is there any of the original CMI Team left out there to even be helpfull in getting all these parts you have used to play nice with each other. This project looks mostly like a carpenter trying to make sense of an old DaVinci machine and get it to run, pun intended 😅

@CrisBlyth Год назад

Oh, MANY of them have helped SO much, with diagrams, and hardware too , and remember I'm many months 'in the future' as it were. This Episode did show that I did have a bit of a different setup to what the USB2CMI was expecting, but it also showed that I'm simply daft and not reading the manual didn't help.. (Admittedly, I didn't somehow know about the manual until later though)

@mrdali67 Год назад

@@CrisBlyth Don’t get me wrong, I am very impressed in taking on this kind of project to get various salvaged cards from different versions and trying to get it working. And for the age of some of this hardware, some of it actually looks quite modern when you take into account that some of it is 40+ years old. I first learned about the Fairlight in the early 80’es when I read about this wonder machine was installed in “Puk” Sudio in Demark that cost the same as a new House.

@johnvcougar Год назад

Hey Cris … measure TWICE, cut once! 🤭

@CrisBlyth Год назад

measure nonce, cut thrice !

@SkyAvila983 Год назад

Or, you can by the vst version from Arturia

@CrisBlyth Год назад

not quite the same though :) Also, you can buy a picture of Mt Everest

@compfox Год назад

Sorry, but your video is much to long this time. If I want to see a guy making failure after failure, wrong decisions and working endledssly on a solution, I 'll go to my own workshop.😁

@CrisBlyth Год назад

As long as you film it and show us :)