Fairlight-CMI

8-bit DAC with true analog filter. 
"Dont know why it just sounds better" 
Kevin Kelley 

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

> 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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