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Re: Darren Hayes

2006-12-20 by dvdborn

Too keep things organized here I'm in favor for some basic rules:

- No reviews of music or comparisons of musical genres
- being a producer/seller and dissing another producer/sellers

David
http://dvdborn.blogspot.com

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Laurent Lemaire <llemaire1@...> wrote:
>
> 
> Dear Laurent,
> 
> I'm sorry but I don't understand why you joined this group ?
> 
> It seems you don't have any Fairlight and not interested
> to understand its technical difference with the technology
> available today.
> 
> If you're only here expecting some Fairlight owners would
> spend some time converting their sounds librairy so you
> can use these sounds on a PC, I'm afraid you're loosing your
> time ...
> 
> No-one would do such a thing. And there's a good reason for
> that. The "confusion" it would create between "a fairlight
> sound" and "the sound of a Fairlight".
> 
> All the "hot" discussion you had with James last WE was
> due to this confusion. James thought you had a Fairlight IIx
> and could not admit that this machine needed a preamp to
> sound powerfull. But it seems you don't own a Fairlight and
> only used this cheap IIx samples audio CD on a sampler which
> explains the behaviour you experienced.
> 
> This kind of confusion is not in the interest of the Fairlight
> enthousiast community. If you are really interested to have
> a machine sounding like a Fairlight IIx, I would suggest you
> find a way to get one. It's not easy but it's doable !
> 
> Best regards.
> 
>     Laurent.
> 
> PS: I don't care if you use picture from my Fairlight  or from
> other people, but please have the honesty to advertise it is
> not yours.
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Laurent/LIFELIKE <lifelike@...>:
> 
> > His music is specially horrible, between RnB and supercommercial
> > cheesy pop.
> > The fairlight didnt seems to help him to get nice sounds
> > Probably you guys can help him and send him some new floppies ?
> > LOL
> >
>

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