Fairlight-CMI

A guy I went to Newcastle College with was involved with that CD and it was actually his IIx used to record it.

Peter

On 1/17/07, Tomás <tomulcahy@yahoo.com> wrote:

From what I can gather, the Pro Rec CD was recorded from a IIx that
came originally from Newcastle University UK. All sounds were played
back with the SSM anti aliasing filter engaged. There are some sounds
missing, most notably for me the string sound first use by Jarre on
"Concerts in China".

I was in email conversation with Robert Brady who made that CD. I
don't know if he's in the group.. Here's what he told me in 2001:
"The CD was recorded by feeding the Fairlight into a match amp
(basically a quiet preamp) and then into Sound Tools running on an
Atari ST Mega 4, then digitally out to DAT and then down to a CD
mastering house where it was digitally real time dubbed back into a
SADIE system and then onto exabyte and pressed onto CD.

Making CDs the old fashioned (Read Expensive!) way.

I still own a CMI (The IIx that was used for the CD), but it is
currently in Ireland (and I'm in London), so I'll have to sort that
out one day...

The CD was recorded before I had my own ProTools system, and I wnt to
a studio in Hull who had a Sound Tools system that I could use. It was
about 50% the cost of a PT room, so it made sense to drive from Devon
(Where I was living) to Yorkshire to record. Strange how technology
that was rare is now so prevalant now. Kinda like the CMI!

You're right there just wasn't the demand for a fully fledged business
based on the Fairlight library, and I didn't have the cash to create
another CD. The sound font version was created by Heavenly Audio but I
don't think they sold many at all...

Mind you some of the samples found their way into the Alesis QS range
of synths, and further into the DM Pro. That was a lot of fun as I got
to help with some of the presets that are burnt into ROM...

One day I might get around to doing the Series III library, but
probbably as a CD-ROM of some description."