Fairlight-CMI

Hi Andy
As the moderator of this group I welcome you to the group and if you 
have any questions, asked away. If any one of us can help we will. 
The Fairlight is a great instrument and try some day to see a 
working one you won't forget it. It sounds that it was a Series I or 
Series II/IIx you seen as the Series III has a Hard Drive and loads 
sounds and sequences directly from that. Go to the files section of 
this group you will see my IIx which belonged to Tom Bailey of The 
Thompson Twins and Martin from 808 State. You also my notice a Linn 
LM1, which belonged to Martin Rushent and was on The Human League's 
Dare album and their follow up album. I thought I would mention that 
as it was spooky that you meationed his name in your email to the 
group.
Welcome again
Best regards
Colin

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "trilliann42" <andyg4242@a...> 
wrote:
> Hi, I've been a fan of the Fairlight since the early 80's. Seeing 
> guys like Martin Rushent sampling his voice then playing it on the 
> keyboard as different notes, it blew me away! But its own sounds 
as 
> well are lovely, especially the orch and aahh sounds as used by 
Jan 
> Hammer, Jean Michel Jarre, Thomas Dolby etc. And Kate Bush's 
Hounds 
> of Love just rewrites the rule book! 
> 
> I'm a non-owner, in fact I'm a non-musician, I just love the sound 
of 
> this machine and love finding out as much about them as possible. 
I 
> have touched 2 though, one at Keele University and one at the 
Synth 
> museum in Bristol, but the Keele one blew a fuse and the Bristol 
one 
> wouldn't load any disks! One day I will see a working one!
> 
> So I would just like to ask if it's ok to frequent this group and 
> read and post as appropriate? One thing I may ask too often 
is 'you 
> know that bit in the song ****? Is that Fairlight?'!! Is it ok to 
ask 
> that sort of thing, or would you rather talk about the technical 
side 
> of things?
> 
> Thanks for reading this, post soon!!
> 
> Andy (UK)