Fairlight-CMI

I´m pretty much convinced that it is working properly. I´ve done numerous 
testing with lots of sources and everything except an 808-style or 909 kick 
sounds fine.

I guess I´m spoiled with the superior sampling on the Waveterm B ;-)

WT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David" <davidmorley@gmx.net>
To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:12 PM
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: CMI IIX sampling


The CMI is 8 bit. You have to be very careful sampling into it.
Of course, it may be that yours has issues, but 8 bit sampling is pretty lo 
fi !
David


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "WT" <waveterm@...> wrote:
>
> so...after a couple of months noodling about with the CMI IIx, I tried
> sampling some stuff last night.
>
> First up was a kickdrum from a TR-909. Decay on the drum was to the 
> longest
> and tune to almost the lowest, maximum click.
>
> It sounds like shit ! No attack. sounds distorted. And with a fizzel on 
> the
> decay part.
>
> Sample rate was 30200
> Filter low 3
> Filter high 9
>
> Then it struck me, I was going direct from the 909 to the CMI IIx line 
> input
> via a 1/4" mono jack to XLR cable. Tip to Pin 2, Sleeve to ring and 
> ground.
> The CMI being 600 ohms on both the line in and mic in......
>
> Am I having impedanceproblems ?
>
>  Today I brought some passive DI´s and transformerboxes from work....but 
> it
> doesn´t seem to make it better.
>
> Sampling the Snaredrum from the 909 sounds great though, but there´s not
> that much bass in the 909 Snare.
>
> How are you guys connecting stuff to your CMI IIx inputs ? Are you using
> external pre´s ?
>
> WT
>