Fairlight-CMI

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "David Bulog" <d2ba@x> wrote:
> I have an EIII keyboard and that is a great sound. Let me tell you
a 
fact--The EIII was rushed to market too early and not a single EIII 
that left EMU ever worked 100%.
> Every single one of these beasts had a fault---the most common been 
bad memory chips, faulty keyboard, switchs not working intermittly on 
front panel!!!!
>   


EMU was notorious for rushing products to the market early but they 
were by no means the only culprit.  Ensoniq, Kurzweil, Sequential,
and 
most other smaller manufacturers were left with little choice because 
they did not have the capital necessary to finalize R&D and work out 
all the bugs before marketing the product.  It sucked for those of us 
who spent thousands of dollars on their products only to buy a 
headache, but in the end it was often remedied.  My EII+ and EIII had 
serious issues, mostly software related, but eventually they were
fixed 
and I was happy with the instruments.