Fairlight-CMI

As I said , FORGET all the old Fairlight Presets as "orch3"
they are outdated , overused and pure crap.
Fairlights have a quality of sound that is still actually unsurpassed

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Hallvard Tangeraas 
<my_list_address@...> wrote:
>
> I'm not going to add more heat to this discussion than already is, 
but I 
> have a few thoughts....
> 
> As a mere hobby-musician (Fairlight-less I may add) I can't help 
think 
> that there might be a distinction between "a Fairlight sound" (an 
> instantly recognizable Fairlight preset such as the "Orch5" 
orchestra 
> hit, or that Fairlight voice which I asked about previously) 
and "that 
> Fairlight sound" meaning a particular audio characteristic 
instantly 
> recognizable by those who hear it (regardless of a Fairlight preset 
> being used or not).
> 
> Having said that, speaking for myself (naturally) I can't say that 
I've 
> been able to know when a Fairlight has been used on a record and 
when a 
> non-Fairlight sampler using a Fairlight preset has been used. I 
just 
> happen to think that some of those legendary presets are quite cool 
> (which other here say are crap) and I don't care where they come 
from as 
> long as I like the song.
> But who am I to speak -I don't own a Fairlight, I'm not a 
professional 
> musician, don't work in a studio as an engineer/producer, nor have 
I 
> owned every hardware sampler there is, so I can compare ;-)
> 
> On a sidenote, I'm very curious about the Fairlight (which is why I 
> joined this group) and would like to know what those CMI III sounds 
are, 
> which everybody is talking about here.
> I already have the CMI IIx sampling CD (audio-CD which is a pain, 
as 
> opposed to a data CD with ready-to-use AIFF samples), and 
recognized 
> many of them, but I'm not sure if I've heard any CMI III samples 
(or 
> perhaps I have without knowing it).
> 
> 
> 
> Hallvard
>