Fairlight-CMI

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:17:53 -0000, "horiprod"
<horizontalproductions@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Harald,

Hi peter,

>To answer your questions:
> 
>> 1. Can a Series III without MFXkbd run OS 11.39 and produce music 
>or 
>> does it need to have the MFXkbd attached ?
>
>Yes, a series III can run rev 11.39 software without an mfx keyboard. 
>The CMI must have a waversuper with 4 Mbyte private RAM, and you'd 
>need a colour graphics card to see anything.... 

Understood, thanks.
 
>> 2. Is there a hardware modification needed to have a series III run 
>> 11.39 instead of, say version 6 if the objective is to have more 
>> music functionality (don't care about the Mfxkbd) ?
>
>Fairlight CMI IIIs can be divided into two very disticnt groups. 
>The "early" systems could run up to revision 6 software, max 14 
>Mbytes RAM, and house-brick sized hard drives.
>
>"Later" or upgraded CMIs can run software from revison 7 to revision 
>11.39, although most of these would be running 9.34. They can access 
>32 Mbytes RAM, and modern SCSI devices up to 4 Gbytes. There are big 
>hardware diiferences between the two machines. Read more about them 
>in the hardware overview on my site at: www.horizontal.co.uk

If I understand correctly, the difference would be in the wavesuper,
the ROMs the router and CGC.

Would there be any soldering involved ?

How long does this upgrade process take ?

>So, you can't run 11.39 on a rev 6 machine! 

Got it :)

>But why try and run 11.39 
>at all if you're not using the disc recorder ??? Rev 9.34 is 
>fundementally the same as rev 11.39 apart from the disc recorder....

If 11.39 were installed in an upgrade process (along with the
hardware) you'd only need an additional MFXkbd to have disk recording
'enabled' if you wanted too.

>Regards,
>
>Peter Wielk

Thanks for explaining !

Regards,
Harald.