Fairlight-CMI

Harald,

Without wanting to be argumentative, and this is in no way a personal attack, if we are completely honest, the Fairlight “market” was about 30 years ago. There are so few of these machines out there today that to simply knock aside the concept of a software emulation smacks of snobbery and elitism.

As has been pointed out since, a faithful software recreation could actually benefit the minuscule used market in the real thing. Did Rebirth knock down the prices of 808’s, 909’s and 303’s ? Far from it ! Is there still a roaring trade in DX7’s, Jupiter 8’s, Minimoog’s, Wavestation’s, M1’s, MS20’s, MonoPoly’s, Polysix’s, Oscar’s….? I could go on and on.

Suffice to say, if a software recreation materialised, I’d be the first to buy it, and if I ever had the good fortune to have enough money and have it at the same time that a real CMI became available, I’d be buying that too as I’d rather have the real deal every time.

As I have said, this isn’t a personal attack and I hope you don’t take it that way :o)

Rob.