Fairlight-CMI

Hmmm. Thanks Harald. That looks like an interesting read :-)

P

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Harald Feldmann" <feldmann@x> 
wrote:
> 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.