Fairlight-CMI

My 2c worth:

In the end, digital signals on a tape are, in fact, sounds.

As is the case with old analog recordings, there may be a case of print
through with these digital recordings, causing the signal to be garbled.

Interested reading: http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/3mtape/printthrough.pdf

A solution to the digital tape problem may be found in solutions for
analog tapes.

Best regards,
Harald.


> By sometime in the late eighties/early nineties, it became apperent
> that many of the streaming tapes were failing to recover.

> .... Still, there were some tapes I never could reclaim,
> including some favorite samples such as one named (I think)
> trmbns02.vc that had a particularly good bass trombone on the bottom
> (I missed that for years). I also had to go begging to Todd Harrimen
> for a replacement of the French Franc coin drop sound effect when I
> needed just such a thing years later (thankfully he had it).
> \
> Andrew (Dr. Bombay) and the crowd at Fairlight at the time, made it
> sound as if it
> was a fatal error that could not be recovered in anyway, and an
> imputus for the replacement of the streamer with the WORM. Maybe the
> error correction capacities of the time were too small. Perhaps some
> weisenhiemer can figure out how to stream the entire content off, find
> the fatal error and patch it.
>
> As I am sold out, I only watch this board for nostalgic reasons, but I
> wish you luck battling these problems. If someone figured out how to
> resurect these tapes, there would be some cool stuff laying about (if
> it hasn't been recorded over).
>
> Peter K.