Fairlight-CMI

Yo Dave, I have always felt good about the home she went to. Knowing
that you have the knowledge and experience to keep the girl as she
should be has helped me with the parting. My worst fear was some day
seeing her gutless frame on some scrap heap, cards scavenged for
others. She was relatively early, which means cards and motherboard
full of jumpers and mods, but the gold and platinum records she
created still reside on the wall in my bathroom :-)

I have often thought about what it must be like, for Kim, Peter and
Steve, having created a tool that became so important to some of us.
It was expensive, we demanded, even clamoured for more, better, more.
But the Fairlight CMI creates a passion in the hearts of those ready
for it, to others it is just a piece of kit.

The Ph. D. drags on, as my interests swerved deeply off towards music
cognition & perception. I recently bought a place in Paris, so now
spend most of my time between Paris and LA., and London for those
moments when the Uni feels they need to see me.

I hope you are making some good music! Sampling tumbling tumbleweeds?
Let me know, I'd love to hear her voice.

Peter Kaye

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "David J. Wilson"
<jeepcherokee_10@...> wrote:
>
> Hey Peter Kaye,  long time !!  I own your CMI Series III and she's in
> great shape.  I'm a senior hardware design engineer at AMD, so I hope
> I can keep her ticking on for life.  I also have a classic Emulator II
> so she's not alone.  Hope all is well your way, are you still in the
> UK ? last we spoke ~2 yrs ago you were going there for a music PhD ?
> 
> take care
> David Wilson
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "djangokitty2" <pdkaye@> wrote:
> >
> >  Hey Steve, I lurk here even though I sold my dear old girl (Series
> > III)off a few years ago. I miss <i>my instrument</i> very much, and if
> > I could have kept it reasonably serviced, I would have kept her
> > forever. A big cosmic thanks to you, Kim, Peter, and Andrew (Dr.
> > Bombay) for having created and maintained her for as long as you did.
> > 
> > Peter Kaye
> > 
> > >
> > > Hello CMI fans
> > > 
> > > After 25 years as a senior developer of the CMI software (all
> versions) 
> > > and later the MFX line of editors I thought I would pop my head in
> and 
> > > say hello. Its about time. 
> > > 
> > > Any old friends or work collegues out there?
> > > 
> > > [Steve Rance]
> > > http://www.fairlightus.com
> > >
> >
>