Fairlight-CMI

Emu has nothing in common with Fairlight sounds, dynamic is poor.
I only use my emu when I need more polyphony.
I also noticed a big problem with emu and soft samplers: more you add 
voices , less it sounds good. Thanks to the multiplexing technology; 
THE big disease for sound quality.
The fairlight IIx goes down 5Hz ( infra bass ), as you say actual 
standard are not the same lol
I create my sounds with many synthesizers and computers ( EMS, 
oberheim, Fairlight, Emu, Silicon Graphics etc ) . My mfx2 is only 24 
tracks , a little difficult to mix an entire project ( music + sound 
fx ) . So my clients rent a studio to mix my projects. Protools is 
everywere , especially in France :((( 
Many artists still use sometimes the Fairlight to have those 
particular sounds , but do you know an other system that is used 
alone to produce an entire album ?
 Actually, very few are still writing the gear they use on the cover. 
We are not anymore in the 80' s when artist were proud to use a moog 
or a synclavier.
Jarre, Peter Gabriel, Hans Zimmer are still fishing in their 
Fairlight library .Duran Duran have recently bought back their 
Fairlight. In fat boy slim titles, I definitly recognise some 
Fairlight use on loops.

If you only use the crappy fairlight IIx factory library, I 
understand you don' t like it. The best is to record your own sounds, 
I simply erased 70 % of the original disks.
 Or perhaps do you have a broken Fairlight, it's really strange you 
need to you use a preamp guitar !!? are you sure you don' t have an 
akai S1000 inside ? lol
Also , did you notice that artists were selling very few albums since 
they all use protools and cheap computers/synth/samplers ?
The best selling albums had a Fairlight acting in the sessions ( 
excepted the Beatles ). People love tremendous sounds .

ps: you should write cmi2x ou cmi IIx , not FIIx
ps2:An other system exists to create stunning sounds, it' s called 
Kyma. Lucas Film daily use it for all his movies ( Star wars, Nemo, 
etc ). Aphex twin made some mixing with it ( listen to windows 
licker )... but you won' t see it written on the cover lol
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--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Laurent/LIFELIKE <lifelike@...> 
wrote:
>
>   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 :
> 
> > 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 <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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