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Hi Chris
I know this is allot to ask but PLEASE PLEASE could you copy the tapes and
put them on digital format (CD) These are a piece of musical history and I
would love to hear and achieve them.
Best regards
Colin
PS. GIVE YOU SOME SERIES III SAMPLES FOR YOUR TROUBLE!!!!!!



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Strellis" <synthasy2000@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Electronic Soundmaker background


> Hi group,
>
> I can't give you too much background info on the Vince Clarke mp3.  I
> would have loved to scan the article in but...read on.
>
> Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music was a magazine published in
> the UK between 1983 and 1985 to compete with Electronics and Music
> Maker (E&MM).  The magazine feature bands of the time , the gear of
> the time and readers musical efforts.  I know Kate and her Fairlight
> featured in E&MM and she featured into ES&CM too.
> http://gaffa.org/reaching/i83_es.html
>
> >From October 1985 to September 1985 it also came with a C60
> cassette.  I had ALL the issues until my Mum in a fit of tidiness
> threw them out (along with my E&MMs) when I was at University some
> years later.
>
> Fortunately I have retained all the tapes.  The tapes contain various
> synths, sampler and drum machines demos along with amateur and
> professional band demos and songs.  I can mention demos of Emulator
> II, Ensoniq Mirage, Kurzweil 250, Yamaha TX816,  PPG 2.3 with
> Waveterm B etc etc all the big synths/samplers of that time.  If
> anyone is interested in hearing a particular synth again, give me a
> shout and I see if its on the tape.
>
> Incidentally, they published a circuit and some software for the ZX
> Spectrum to make a sound sampler which I successfully built.  You
> could only playback monophonically and sample for only a second at
> 25kHz but you could play it back from you analog synth CV output.
> Lots of aliasing (like the Fairlight) because it had NO filters.  I
> made a lot of demos with this unit for drum loops and I remember
> sampling Kate Bush Fairlight samples from The Hounds Of Love - ha -
> the circle closes!  I still have that (awfully) primitive demo on
> tape - hell it was 1985 and I was 15 and I had no money.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>
> P.S.  I still have the ZX Spectrum,  the sampler box I made and the
> software!!!
>
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