Fairlight-CMI

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:49:08 -0000, "horiprod"
<horizontalproductions@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Harald,

LOL ! :)

Peter, do I detect a sense of cynicism here ? :)

I did not mean to offend you, in case I did...

I was being curious, I am aware you offer the upgrade and I am happy
you do. The idea was that if the upgrade is a 'package' to put in and
pay for, if it were easy enough to do it ourselves, we might pay the
same price for the package and forget about shipping a magnificent,
yet, very heavy, mainframe to you and back :)

But thanks for elaborating, it is insightful !


I'll keep your offer in mind !


Best regards,
Harald.

>> If I understand correctly, the difference would be in the wavesuper,
>> the ROMs the router and CGC.
>> 
>> Would there be any soldering involved ?
>> 
>
>Yes, there is a "little" soldering involved. First you take the 
>digital motherboard out, and solder some mod wires there. Next obtain 
>and install a wavesuper and test it boots up. Then you take all the 2 
>Mbyte RAM cards out, and extensively modify these, with each one 
>taking about an hour. You then take all 8 channel cards out and 
>modify these, removing one chip and replacing with another. Then you 
>install the new ROMs and test channels and memory for a couple of 
>hours. Reject or repair any bad cards. Next the sampler needs to be 
>modified, which takes a few hours to perform and then test. Next, 
>remove all the old drives, and throw into a canal. Time taken here 
>depends on how close your nearest canal is. Install a new 4 Gbyte 
>drive, and copy across a full of libraries, and the system software. 
>Then make a nice aluminium cover plate, spray it black and install. 
>Meanwhile, get a full set of manuals copied, while you do final audio 
>testing...
>
>Simple really.....    
>
>
>> How long does this upgrade process take ?
>
>
>It takes me a couple of days. The list price of this is GBP 2,750, 
>but I'm doing a special offer until Christmas of GBP 1,750
>
>Regards,
>
>Peter Wielk
>
>Horizontal Productions London
>
>PS: In the unlikely event that anyone might want to contact me for an 
>upgrade, don't use my yahoo address which is jammed up with spam. 
>Instead use: horiprod@blueyonder.co.uk