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Re: Gigasampler translation

2008-02-02 by Tomás

Hi James,

Did you get my email about this?

Thanks...

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "paradyse_james"
<paradyse_james@...> wrote:
>
> I managed to convert all my Fairlight sounds 1 year ago directly from 
> my Hd' s using cmios9 ( kmi ), but you lost the fairlight filter + its 
> particular pitch shifting ( from 5hz to 200 khz) + its unique sound-
> converters. 
> 
> So you can imagine the sounds are hmmm near useless.
> 
> Finally the best way I find is to record the analog output of the 
> fairlight using an apogee but the software sampler doesn' t reproduce 
> the original pitch shifting "effect" , so it' s still far from the 
> original.
> 
> Fairlight is a like a Stradivarius . Hard to catch in a modern 
> computer .
> 
> James
> 
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Tomás <tomulcahy@> wrote:
> >
> > Reading the review in keyboard mag this month, it states that Giga can
> > import Fairlight format samples.
> > 
> > Has anyone on the list used this facility? How good is it? Does it
> > work with CMI HDs connected via SCSI on your PC?
> >
>

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