Fairlight-CMI

Hello to all in the group...

I don't think I have ever actually posted before.  I've been a member
for quite some time but have usually been busy and haven't had the
chance to get involved.

The post about Ron L. Hubbard recording piqued my interest.  I
actually had the opportunity to work on that very machine a few years
ago.  Apparently the Scientologists had it in storage for quite some
time and ended up selling it at a local music store in Los Angeles
(Black Market Music).  I know the owner of the store and several of
the employees.  I got a call from them being I was the ONLY person
they knew who had a Fairlight and knew anything about it.  The machine
was a very interesting series I that had been upgraded to a IIx. It
had some disk drive issues and noisy/low output problems but was
relatively intact.  Unfortunately the interesting sound library as
mentioned on Ron's "Ode" page were nowhere to be found - perhaps he
kept the disks hidden away somewhere for his own samples....

I do recall that they ended up selling that machine to the hip hop
group "Outkast", which I think (as an American) is a very amusing
history for a machine owned originally by Scientologists..

Best Regards,
Paul


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Strellis"
<synthasy2000@y...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some of you may have seen this before....
> 
> http://www.ronthemusicmaker.org/fair.htm
> 
> Anyone else penned an ode to their Fairlight?!
> 
> Do his recordings exist anywhere?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Chris
> (tongue in cheek)