Fairlight-CMI

I personally own 2 IIx's and a mirage among many
other samplers. Although the mirage does not sound
just like the fairlight it sounds a hell of a lot more
realistic than sampling the IIx into a 16 bit sampler.
How that is, I do not know. The original fairlight
samples have bad loop points and only one sample point
that is transposed all of the way up and down the
keyboard. The mirage with a little filter manipulation
sounds pretty damn close to the fairlight in a blind
A/B and on a recording I cannot tell the difference. I
believe that it has to do with the 8 bit sample
resolution because on my Emulator I it sounds pretty
close as well. 
 Just my 2 cents.

Kevin Kelley 
Audio Playground
www.keyboardmuseum.org

--- yazzofever <yazzofever@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ok,
> 
> You can stop laughing.  But I have read on the
> internet that some feel 
> that out of all the vintage samplers from the 80's,
> the ensoniq mirage 
> nails the fairlight II 8 bit sounds the best.
> 
> I KNOW it is not a fairlight with all the other
> bells and whistles, 
> additive sythesis, sequencer, etc.
> 
> I'm speaking cheifly of the sound of samples.
> 
> Has anyone both to compare?
> 
> Micah
> 
> 
> 
> 


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