Fairlight-CMI

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "paradyse_james" <paradyse_james@...> wrote:
>
> you' ll obtain .wav files.

That's exactly what I'm after at the moment.

I know that a lot of the character comes out of the D/A's but I'm mostly interested in the 
samples themselves.

> Raw files will just give you the sound as it was originaly recorded 
> by the Fairlight but not played by the Fairlight. You lose the 
> Fairlight D/A converters, filters and vary frequency pitching... and 
> they are replaced by the one you have in your emu.
> You' ll get emu sound 

That's no problem. I do like the EIII sound :-)

Best,
David
http://dvdborn.blogspot.com

> It' s like if you put a Canon Lens on a Leika
> The best way is to record with an apogee AD converter every samples.
> 
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "dvdborn" <dvdborn@> wrote:
> >
> > To bring this subject back on topic. (but please do continue with 
> the other debate...)
> > 
> > My main question was how I could obtain the Series III library 
> without owning one. I'd like to 
> > use the library with my EIII.
> > 
> > Am I correct that the following procedure would work?
> > 
> > 1. I purchase an external hard disc formatted for Series III, 
> loaded with the libraries from e.g. 
> > Horizontal Productions 
> > 2. I hook this up to a Mac with a SCSI interface and OS X.
> > 3. I use cmios9 to copy the .vc files to the Mac 
> > 3. I convert the .vc files to AIFF.
> > 
> > Of course this will only give me the raw samples and not the 
> programs. But it's a start.
> > 
> > David
> > http://dvdborn.blogspot.com
> >
>