Fairlight-CMI

It s really a shame that Fairlight company cuted all contact with its 
old products. I bought a IIx, 2 series3 and one MFX2, I was about to 
buy a MFX3, but I realised they just wanted my money as they never 
helped me with my previous models...this day they lost a client.
They don' t want to support our CMIs however many companies still does 
for their previous products. Your fourty years old Nikon or Leika 
camera has a trouble ? they STILL repair it. And I didn' t pay my Nikon 
100.000 $ with promises of easy servicing ( remember the series III 
brochure ? ) and effective upgrading***.

Now imagine a session with a famous film director; he saw the CMI: " 
Waouuu !, can we use it on my movie ? "
I replied to him " sorry, it' s fried "

What will be his opinion about Fairlight ? what will he say to others 
about fairlight ? Will they buy a dreamstation ? certainly not. 
In France many of those people still thinks Fairlight has left market 
in 1988.
Some of us are still doing professional work with their CMI, it' s a 
very bad calcul to let them servicing alone their gear. It only gives 
the worst image a company can have. its reputation was built with the 
CMI, not with this steril Dream station, don' t forget that. 
I' ll never buy a new product from Fairlight; I don' t want to read 300 
pages of the service manual to repair it myself in 10 years.
I remember a few years before when fairlight made many investments in 
other companies , that lead them to bankruptcy ( again ! ). They should 
have kept their money to create a CMI servicing department with 3 guys 
supporting and improving the CMI cards.
 Now , if the actual Fairlight company doesn' t want to assume its 
musical and creative past, they should change their name, just to be 
sure that CMI owners stop whining.... What about Fairtools or 
Digilight ? lol

J.

*** upgrading for fairlight means sometimes downgrading: rev5 to rev6 
you lose 100 khz sampling. Rev 11 to 12 ( mfx2 to mfx3 ) you lose all 
the sampling capabilities. MFX3 to QDC : it sounds much worse( ! ) 
thats why we still need CMIs.




--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "e233dpj" <e233dpj@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Can anyone look at our Waveform Supervisor card with a view to fixing 
it?
> This is becoming a lost cause!
> 
> Thanks.
> CJ
>