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2010-08-14 by greg thurman
I am hoping someone can give me some advise on a storage situation I'm in. I have a Fairlight IIx, III, ppg's, Dx1, Synclavier, Pro tools/Mac, and some other high end music equipment in a storage facility in Arizona. I would say in the summer it gets a little over 100 degrees in
2010-08-10 by WT
Joerg, thanks for the extensive documentation of your journey into the CMI II. I´ve read through most of it and have a feeling that converting the 8" drives to 3,5" shouldn´t be that hard if you have some experience in electronics and soldering. WT ----- Original Message ----- Fr
2010-08-10 by tama_rat
Hi All, Progress is being made. I just posted some pictures of the device buildout. The initial run of 20 devices have been assembled, programmed, and tested. I don't have the VDU cables yet, but expect them within a couple of weeks. I also had to change my plans for shipping con
2010-08-08 by tonefloat01@yahoo.com
Awesome news! Can't wait to hear more! Sent from my iPhone On Aug 8, 2010, at 5:13 AM, "horiprod" wrote: > > > > Why not just buy the new one?? > > Err, because the "new one" doesn't exist as a saleable item yet. > > We are, within the next week, about to road-test the prototype.
2010-08-08 by Rob Puricelli
So, what are the chances of getting a review model for http://www.failedmuso.com/blog ? ;o) Slim to none? Two hopes.. No hope & Bob Hope?? LOL Still, if you don't ask, you don't get ;o) Really looking forward to hearing the fruits of yours and Mr Vogel's labour :o) Regards, Rob F
2010-08-08 by horiprod
> Why not just buy the new one?? Err, because the "new one" doesn't exist as a saleable item yet. We are, within the next week, about to road-test the prototype. The CC-1 hardware platform is completely proven, and the "DNA" for the upcoming CMI-30A has been extracted from possib
2010-08-07 by tonefloat01@yahoo.com
Why not just buy the new one?? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 6, 2010, at 6:13 AM, Stephen Dewey wrote: > And if I am not mistaken.....which I'm not....that's my Fairlight ! well the cpu anyway. Does anyone have a Series 3 monitor, preferrably the more square one they are interested
2010-08-06 by fairlightusa
Hi, I have a client who would like to rent for about 2 week a Series III system, preferably in the Atlanta area. If you can help out or know of someone please reply. Regards [Steve]
2010-08-06 by Stephen Dewey
And if I am not mistaken.....which I'm not....that's my Fairlight ! well the cpu anyway. Does anyone have a Series 3 monitor, preferrably the more square one they are interested in selling ?
2010-08-06 by WT
Sure is ! WT ----- Original Message ----- From: "horiprod" To: Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 2:02 AM Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Series III used live Great clip..... If I'm not mistaken, that's my old friend and oft Hans collaborator Mel Wesson playing the modular (and other) sy
2010-08-05 by horiprod
Great clip..... If I'm not mistaken, that's my old friend and oft Hans collaborator Mel Wesson playing the modular (and other) synths.... Regards, Peter Wielk Horizontal Productions in sunny Sydney --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "dvdborn" wrote: > > On July 14, 2010 Hans Z
2010-08-04 by dvdborn
On July 14, 2010 Hans Zimmer & Johnny Marr ,together with a large band, played the soundtrack from Inception live. It features among other things a Fairlight CMI Series III, a Buchla 100, a VCS3 and a large modular. Head on over to http://dvdborn.blogspot.com/2010/08/inception-li
2010-08-04 by Peter Connelly
Hi All, What an amazing article. I wish I had the expertise and patience to take on such a project... maybe one day I will. I have updated my yahoogroups email address to send mails to my regular address (this one), so hopefully I will be more active on these Forums. Best wishes,
2010-08-04 by horiprod
Hello Joerg. First of all, congratulations on a really brilliant article and extremely helpful pictures... I'm restoring a series II myself (I normally work on IIXs and IIIs), and look forward to digesting the whole piece in time... You mentioned fixing up an analogue interface i
2010-07-30 by dkevefnzs
Hallihallo all, My CMI II restauration adventure log has just received some photos, sound snippets, and - finally - a section on the 3.5" floppy drives. Sorry there's (still) no detailed photo of the 50-pin 34-pin adapters, and it's a collection of information rather than a struc
2010-07-29 by Peter Connelly
Hi Guys, It's been a while since I've contributed to this list. I have a huge favour... if anyone can help me out... I am after the Series III drumkits (11 and 13, I think) as wavs / aiffs if anyone is willing to help me out. I can chop 'em up so if you just want to play them int
2010-07-28 by Joe Sleator
Hi, Sounds like great news. Last I checked, according to some testing, this thing would read CMI floppy images fine, but couldn't write back. So you could boot CMI, and load samples, etc, but not really save anything. Hopefully this will or has changed. Best, Joe On Tue, Jul 27,
2010-07-28 by egrefin@wanadoo.fr
Excellent ! Let us inform if it works. David
2010-07-27 by dd_62622
Magnifique ! --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Peter K." wrote: > > > > (I'm lost for the right words.............) > > Peter Kersten. > > > From: Thomas Heckmann > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 6:17 PM > To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Floppy adve
2010-07-27 by Peter K.
(I'm lost for the right words.............) Peter Kersten. From: Thomas Heckmann Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 6:17 PM To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Floppy adventure continues ! Hi guys, just ordered a HxC Floppy emulator SD version ! As soon as it arri
2010-07-26 by WT
You bet ! :) WT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Heckmann" To: Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 6:17 PM Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Floppy adventure continues ! Hi guys, just ordered a HxC Floppy emulator SD version ! As soon as it arrives I will check if it will work and repla
2010-07-26 by Thomas Heckmann
Hi guys, just ordered a HxC Floppy emulator SD version ! As soon as it arrives I will check if it will work and replace one of my 3,5" Floppies on my IIx... And then goodbye unreliable Floppy-Drives :-) When I do this I will also check how Kampfhofer made the conversion for the 3
2010-07-24 by Peter K.
Of course the link was wrong, it should be: http://www.torlus.com/floppy/index.php?News I already send an earlier mail to correct this, but it seems to got lost in space.......... Sorry if I confused anyone Regards, Peter Kersten. From: Peter K. Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 3:3
2010-07-21 by Peter K.
That's the same project as the link I already send in my last post. http://invasieve-exoten.nieuwslog.nl/article/invasieve-exoten_108418/Nieuw_exotisch_insect_in_Nederland.html?www Actually this project is already going on for quite some time now. It has already been tested with
2010-07-21 by synthasy2000
There maybe some more hope: http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator and an Oberheim DPX-1 5 1/4" drive replaced with SD (this is for EII samples) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9UBxyhbOU Cheers Chris
2010-07-17 by tama_rat
Hi All, Apologies for not providing a status update in a while. I was traveling for a couple of weeks, then had to deal with a water leak in my workshop/studio (ugh!). Anyway, I'm back, and so are the front panels for the first 20 interfaces. This coming week I plan to mount the
2010-07-15 by Peter K.
Here are some links I collected during the years: http://users.bart.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/8-525.html http://nemesis.lonestar.org/computers/tandy/hardware/model16_6000/floppyfix.html http://www.dbit.com/fdadap.html http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apollo/flp-info http://www.tim-mann.org
2010-07-14 by dvdborn
I would guess that the 8-inch floppy drives are the rarest components. Or am I wrong? I know that some IIx machines have been fitted with 3.5-inch drives but I don't know if this is an easy fix. David http://dvdborn.blogspot.com --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, blixton wrote
2010-07-14 by blixton
Good to know, Thank you very much!
2010-07-14 by Peter K.
Thanks for your answer Joe. I was wondering about that question too. From: Joe Sleator Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:12 AM To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] risky purchase the fairlight? It's very hard to say what will happen to mostly-ttl things l
2010-07-14 by Joe Sleator
It's very hard to say what will happen to mostly-ttl things like fairlights and old computers in the future, but there is so much old digital hardware floating around, it's not likely the world's supply of _reusable_ ttl will dry up any time soon. I'd have to say compared with ot
2010-07-13 by blixton
guess not
2010-07-13 by blixton
Does the fairlight IIx contain chips and other components that can not be sourced or may not be in the near future if they were to fail? tTHanks
2010-07-12 by horiprod
Hi Arron. You seem to be getting there - gradually... However it's virtually impossible to work on a CMI at board level without a set of extender cards... So, in my extremely fatigued state at Heathrow airport, I'm volunteering a set of said cards to be used by the group... Back
2010-07-10 by arroncx
Hi Joe : thanks for all the brilliant advice :) I am very gratefull to all of you guys for the support. With regard to the CMI31 card : it wasnt working anyway : I bought it as spares of a bloke on ebay. It didnt ever work. Still have the electronics on their if i need more parts
2010-07-09 by Joe Sleator
Hi Arron... Don't ruin what might be a perfectly good CMI28 or CMI31. The world's short of 'em as it is! Also, CMI28 is not your problem, from your description of things. If you MUST replace that CMI28 pin (which pin is it?) why not just get another PCB mount ribbon cable socket
2010-07-07 by arroncx
Thanks for the advice Peter : really appreciate it. Im beginning to think that the channel support card is badly broken : there was a fair bit of corrosion on the solder, and it looks in a bad way. :( Also, I found that a pin had broken off inside CMI 28 card, and so Im going to
2010-07-06 by Robert Brady
Hi all, I finally got my Series III shipped over from the UK to CT, but between me last using it a couple of years ago and this weekend the HD has given up the ghost. It won't even spin up. I've tried everything I can think of to get it running, but it looks like the bearings hav
2010-07-05 by horiprod
Hi Arron. The CMI does a real basic hardware check of channel cards through the motherboard. However, all the timing clocks for the channels come from the aptly named channel support card, CMI 32. If you can't substitute a known good replacement, check the master clock on this, a
2010-07-04 by arroncx
HI there : I feel im getting closer, but still no full boot. On the startup screen, I always get "Cmi Channel Card Detected : None Detected" Does any one know how this detection proccess works , and where to start looking for the problem ? All the Cmi Cards have flashing lights o
2010-07-04 by arroncx
Hi Peter : just a quick note to say thanks : I found and replaced the fuse you mention, and now have all my power indicator lights working : thanks :) Also good luck moving house. Best Wishes : Arron --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "horiprod" wrote: > > Hi Arron. > > Very q
2010-07-03 by horiprod
Hi Arron. Very quickly, as I'm just moving "house" in London... You're 5V supply is obviously working, otherwise you'd have no boot at all... There is no main 5V fuse as such (it'd have to about 30A) however there is a 5V fuse for the analogue side of things, which is on the anal
2010-07-02 by arroncx
OK, so i turned my CMI upside down and removed the bottom plate to get to the fuses : Indeed one was blown , marked Audio + 20v. I replaced this one, and the light now comes on at the back of the CMI. This is an improvement:)) Unfortunately, the light marked +5 Digital is still o
2010-07-01 by arroncx
Thanks for the advice again Peter :) I was of course just being lazy : normally I would carry the CMI in a shoulder bag on the bus to go to gigs, with the Music Keyboard under my arm. ROFLMAO. You must be made of sturdier material than myself. :) Best : Arron --- In Fairlight-CMI
2010-07-01 by horiprod
Hi Arron. To replace the analogue supply fuses in a "standard" series III, you do indeed need to remove the bottom cover. Just turn the machine upside down and remove the 10 x screws, underneath you'll find the (from memory) CMI-310 board which as a row of fuses, all labelled. Th
2010-07-01 by alex459686
Hello all, This is my first post and unfortunately not a very happy one. My fairlight CVI wont switch on today, it just shows a mess of pixels on the screen and repeatedly flashes all the lights on the controller whilst beeping a lot. If anyone else has experienced this problem i
2010-06-30 by arroncx
Cheers Peter : thanks for the heads up : I eventually found that 1 of the CMI 31 cards was causing the issue, and have now replaced it with a spare. The system now boots in a consistent way, but not right though to the directory screen. I eventually get an mptask I/O timeout erro
2010-06-30 by horiprod
Hi Arron. To hopefully answer your questions: > Can a series III boot with just a one memory board, one CMI-31 channel and no sampler card, and no midi board etc ? Yes. This is a good setup to begin with. Assuming it works like this, add cards until you get malfunctions... > If I
2010-06-29 by tama_rat
The first batch of 20 boards is assembled, and today I received the first (test run) aluminum front panel! I just posted a picture of the first fully assembled unit. The aluminum panel fit the plastic enclosure just fine, and all of the holes lined up as they should have (whew).
2010-06-28 by WT
Thank you very much J-B ! I somehow have missed bookmarking this site. I don´t think I got the files from this site directly as they are Zipped ( though not working ). I found them somewhere else. Will do some transferring tonight then, WT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean