Fairlight-CMI

Kelly,

I respect your opinion.  If I was to buy the Pro-Rec soundset CD and 
then sample it with my Mirage-I feel that I would have poor quality 
compared to just leaving the Fairlight samples as 16 bit versions.  
The samples on the fairlight were sampled obviously from something, 
and thus lost sound quality.  If I was to sample the Fairlight sounds 
with the Mirage I would again loose more sound quality...right?

How can they be close then?

Thanks,
Micah

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, kevin kelley <xirin6@...> wrote:
>
>  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@...> 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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