Fairlight-CMI

Hi Kevin,

The MFX2 was an extension of the series III, and thus shared most of 
the hardware and software. The MFX2 (last revision 11.39) thus had 
all the sampling , waveform manipulation and sequencing packages as 
the series III (last revision 9.34). The difference of the MFX2 was 
the addition of colour graphics, a different MFX keyboard, a high-
speed disc access card, a digital sampler, and a 24 output router.
The only difference between the MFX2 11.39 and the series III 
software is the disc recorder/editor page. The MFX2 allows you to 
mover freely between the disc recorder and sampling environments. You 
can turn a recorded "clip" into a keyboard sample, and vice versa. 
You can also synchronise between the disc recorder and the CAPS 
sequencer, with beat markers appearing on the disc recorder tracks..

The MFX3 used a different hardware platform. It was solely designed 
as an audio post production tool, and therefore no longer sampled or 
sequenced.

There's more info on my site www.horizontal.co.uk and in the unlikely 
event that anyone would like to buy one of these splendid machines, I 
have a couple with LCD flat screens for around GBP 5,750.

Hope this is helpful,

regards,

Peter Wielk

Horizontal Productions London     



>  Sorry for the silly question but I am a series IIx owner. I am 
> looking to consolidate some of my vintage equiptment and had some 
> questions about the series III and MFX. 
>  I have seen where the series III can act as a sampler and also 
> record audio is this done all within the series III or does it have 
> to be routed out to a external mixer then sent back to the series 
> III? 
>  What are the key differences between the MFX 2 and MFX 3 other 
than 
> the obvious cost? 
>  I am trying to aquire a true workstation something that I only 
need 
> one piece of equiptment to do all of my preproduction.