Well, when you already own a Fairlight ( and they are hundreds to be
owned :)) you don' t care about the price or the weight !
If It' s there , in your studio, you just need to move your hand to use
it.
How did you established that nobody use the fairlight anymore ?
Every week I heard about artists using Fairlight(s) in studio.
About the sound, on a project with massive Fairlight use, the overall
quality is way better than project done with protools or soft
samplers. But if you just use the series III marimba sample, no doubt
it will change a lot of thing.
I noticed that the cmiII sounds were more interesting and had more
character in a mix. It creates really strange sounds . The cmi3 is just
a very good sampler but less creative than his little brother. 10 years
ago I get ride of my cmi3 to buy a mfx2 , it's still the best sounding
dtd .
I daily use protools Hd/ Apogee with my clients, the sound is just
missing something : presence and dynamic.
I own all the hardware samplers that can exist and none of them is
enough good to replay the Fairlight sounds. I' ve transfered all the
fairlight LIbrairies in the Emu4 and Kontakt/Halion softsamplers but
the original stays at an other level; this level that brings you
inspiration.
--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Laurent/LIFELIKE .>
wrote:
>
> well today nobody's doing records with a fairlight II or III; this
is
> a heavy machine, cost a lot
> and the character is not what listeners are able to catch, they
catch
> nice melodies and great compositions done with a fairlight or with a
> akai or on a zx spectrum, who cares
> is somebody here using his fairlight on NEW records ?
> but this library project would for sure get audience, because the
> library is still interesting.
>
> Laurent
> --
>
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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Series III Library availability
2006-12-15 by Laurent/LIFELIKE
Well Im speaking about guys doing real records and selling them on the real market, not about guys owning the sampler for collection or to show to you girlfriend that u got a very big one (big sampler of course :-))))
Im open to check the record stores if u got a band/artist name from today who did his entire album on a fairlight II/III, please give me the names and we will check on the cover of his record if it was right. It could be an interesting challenge.
Also you say its the best sounding sampler, but if its the best sounding gear why dont u use it with ur client instead of protools...
because nobody is using it on new records ? :)))
I also own a FIIx the sound is just a piece of crap for today standart, you need to plug it in a very good preamp then in a guitar amp to really get THAT sound u hear on old records... and once u want to play chords you need a lot of patience and ouput to have it done.
but for sure it was a nice tools 25years ago
Regarding the FIII, im sure it got a nice sound, but it probably do well comparing to Emulator IV or III which got quite the same sonic spec and to my ears Emu got the best sounding samplers, hardware samplers i mean.
A matter of taste i think
But its a nice debate anyway !
Le 14 déc. 06 à 22:33, paradyse_james a écrit :