Fairlight-CMI

The short answer is- it depends!

The long answer is- it will sound the same, as long as you're happy with playback only. The IIx has some very nifty modulation functions, as you can hear on the dvdborn blog.

dvdborn also has a multisample of Sararr on his blog, from a IIx, with filter on and filter off. It sounds great. However, my personal go to Sararr is the one from the Digital Domain CD, taken from a IIx with filter on, an octave below middle C. Transposed up in a modern sampler, it gives you the brightness that we associate with commercial recordings.

However, I have recently been enjoying some classic IIx sounds played back in Kontakt. These were made by importing them on a CMI 3, and then converting the files directly to WAV. They sound very full in the top end as you would expect, but retain that Fairlight magic breathy sound, wihtout sounding dated. I think it's a good way to give a new life to these over exposed sounds.

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, blixton <blixton@...> wrote:
>
> If I sampled the fairlight with a good soundcard and a software like 
> autosampler will the sample bank sound the same? Or will it just not be 
> the same?
> 
> Thanks
>