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Question about what to look for in a MFX3

2006-06-23 by kevin kelley

I have seen several MFX-3's on ebay going cheap recently I was interested in picking up a MFX3 for my project studio. I have an older yamaha digital console that outputs AES at 20 bit and was wondering if this would fit into the I/O scheme of the MFX? If purchasing an MFX unit wh

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Re: Herbie Hancock Demonstrates the Fairlight on Sesame Street

2006-06-23 by Chris Strellis

Hi Peter, > Marvellous! I'm been wanting to see this clip for ages. Me too! > Thanks Chris :-) You're most welcome - I'm just the bringer of the good news. I had no hand in it otherwise :) Did you notice no mod wheels on his keyboard - looked like sliders with no springs as well.

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: External drive

2006-06-22 by colin.a.ross@btopenworld.com

Hi guys I have a spare original working Hard Drive I'll sell for £175 if your interested. Get in touch if your interested. Cheers Colin Peter Connelly wrote: If you can find a working 2nd hand one, next to nothing, but I'd imagine but you might have more luck finding a pot of gol

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: External drive

2006-06-22 by Peter Connelly

If you can find a working 2nd hand one, next to nothing, but I'd imagine but you might have more luck finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. P On 6/22/06, Michael michael.maeurer@web.de > wrote: How much is dirt cheap??? It is a revision 5.4 machine... Greetz, Mike --- In

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: External drive

2006-06-22 by Peter Connelly

I see. That's VERY expensive for a HD. Upgrading would cost substantially more, but it might be worth checking out the benefits, especially if you use your Fairlight a lot. There was an aution on eBay for many Series 3 parts, which included a brand new HD. The complete package di

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] External drive

2006-06-22 by Peter Connelly

I'd imagine these would be dirt cheap, assuming you can get hold of one. What revisison machine do you have? If it's latest spec, you're better off getting a 4gig HD with some great libs from Peter Wielk. Cheers, Peter On 6/22/06, Michael michael.maeurer@web.de > wrote: Hi!! What

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Re: External drive

2006-06-22 by Michael

How much is dirt cheap??? It is a revision 5.4 machine... Greetz, Mike --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Connelly" wrote: > > I'd imagine these would be dirt cheap, assuming you can get hold of one. > > What revisison machine do you have? If it's latest spec, you're be

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External drive

2006-06-22 by Michael

Hi!! What would be a good price for an external 190MB HD from Fairlight?? Nice white housing and compatible to the old CMI III. Greetz, Mike

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Interesting Site

2006-06-21 by Peter Connelly

Hi all, I've just stumbled across this site: http://www.kingofbeaver.com/music_videos/ If you go down to Arcadia - Election Day, you might notice some white keyboard in the background ;-) Cheers, Peter

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Anyone in Melbourne Australia selling a CMI?

2006-06-15 by antonyp69

Dear Community I wish to buy a CMI (either IIx or Series III). Is there anyone in Melbourne Australia selling a CMI? I will consider other places in Australia as well. Please email me. Cheers Antony

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Series III spare parts on eBay

2006-06-12 by Malte Rogacki

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7422348862 looks interesting albeit pricey. The 190 meg Maxtor drive is exactly what the "old" Series III needs... -- Malte Rogacki gacki@gacki.sax.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "D

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Check this out! Looks like new Fairlight compositions.

2006-06-10 by antonyp69

You will find these compositions at: http://www.decovo.com/ladlaika/ladlaika.html The group is called Lad Laika. Apparently the guy who composes under the name Lad Laika, found an abandoned Fairlight CMI out in the Nevada desert and actually got it working again, and these tunes

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IIx For Sale

2006-06-05 by fairlight2x

Hello everyone - I'll keep this somewhat brief, because part of me can't believe I'm doing this... I am in the market to sell my Series IIx, and would like to offer it to someone in the group who may be interested. A few details: She is not 100% at this time. However, the issues

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Re: CMI power supplies

2006-06-02 by horiprod

Hi Peter. Yes, I would gladly like to save your transformers from a firey end! I'm living in Surry Hills in Sydney, and could pick up whenever convenient. Mail your telephone number to me at horizontal_productions@hotmail.com and I'll arrange a mutually agreeable time. Thanks, an

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Holmes Page archive

2006-05-29 by Harald Feldmann

I was not aware it was down, it's sort of an 'always in the back of my mind storage' thing. Please archive it and make it available as a download for offline use if it is too expensive to have it online. We still have a file section here I believe ? Maybe store the pages in windo

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CMI power supplies

2006-05-29 by Peter Vogel

Does anyone have a use for a CMI power transformer? I have one of the square type and one of the torroidal type that;s headed for copper recycling. On Mon, 29 May 2006 13:02:37 +0100 James Thomson wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > Would you please reinstate the Holmes Page Fairlight messag

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Holmes Page archive

2006-05-29 by James Thomson

Hi Greg, Would you please reinstate the Holmes Page Fairlight message archive ? Its been months and months since you have removed it. It would be good to have it back as there is a lot of useful information there. If anyone else here would like to see the return of the Holmes mes

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Fairlight on eBay

2006-05-26 by kar_chicago

http://cgi.ebay.com/FAIRLIGHT-CMI-SAMPLER-SERIES-III-WITH-FX-EXPANSION- RARE_W0QQitemZ7417550339QQcategoryZ38070QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZVi ewItem Just posted as an FYI. It's not mine.

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Faulty Voice Card?

2006-05-25 by Peter Connelly

Hi CJ, Thanks for this... I'll give this a go tonight. Kind regards, Peter ps Yes, I'm running a 9.34 machine :-) On 5/24/06, e233dpj e233dpj@yahoo.co.uk > wrote: - Hi Peter, Try removing all the sound cards and cleaning the row of resistors at the bottom. We had a similar proble

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Re: Faulty Voice Card?

2006-05-24 by e233dpj

- Hi Peter, Try removing all the sound cards and cleaning the row of resistors at the bottom. We had a similar problem, along with crackling, some time ago and discovered that the resistors were overheating due to a layer of dust forming on them. Also, try swapping soundcards to

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Faulty Voice Card?

2006-05-24 by Peter Connelly

Hi guys, I booted up my Series III last night and noticed that one of the voices was out-of-tune. Checking the LED's on the Voice Boards, it's the same one everytime. It pitches up by about a 5th. Has anyone came across this before? I haven't yet tried making sure the cards are s

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RE: [Fairlight-CMI] mfx2

2006-05-23 by Bob Coover

Hi Steve, I have a rack mounted working MFX2 system with 24mb of ram, two 4 gig hard drives, and all of the other features. It has an extensive CMI library, but was also used for hard disk recording. System is in great condition, and was used most of its life in a post production

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mfx2

2006-05-23 by bohmstephen

Hi Philip, I'm new to the group,and thought I'd run a search and wanted to track down a rackmounted mfx2 system. A guy sold one recently in the UK, but I was too late. I'm probably a bit late in this case also, but I thought it was worth a shot. I'm interested in the stuff they r

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Who's repairing MFX

2006-05-19 by big bloke

Hi guys. Now peter is in the land of Oz down under,anyone shine some light on who's repairing MFX3s in the UK? (just incase I am in need)

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Members contemporary Fairlight compositions?

2006-05-17 by ozidudeau

Hopefully this post is less controversial than my last, that is starting a Fairlight online sample database. Which I do indeed hope comes into fruition one day for those ardent Fairlight admirers who do not own one yet. However at this point in time, I feel that in order necessar

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] And another?

2006-05-11 by kevin kelley

wasnt that arnold ? the terminator? --- Glenn Javaheri wrote: > The garbage man mouthing "All-right!" was to her > throwing a kilo of cocaine into his truck as an act > of her quitting, or because he'd just inherited it? > > > > john945277 wrote: > This sounds like there is quite

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] And another?

2006-05-11 by Glenn Javaheri

The garbage man mouthing "All-right!" was to her throwing a kilo of cocaine into his truck as an act of her quitting, or because he'd just inherited it? john945277 wrote: This sounds like there is quite a bit of Fairlight in it. Anyway it is very cheesy Stop The Madness

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] And another?

2006-05-10 by kevin kelley

That was painfull! Kevin Kelley --- john945277 wrote: > This sounds like there is quite a bit of Fairlight > in it. > Anyway it is very cheesy [:D] > Stop The Madness > rugs> > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the

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And another?

2006-05-10 by john945277

This sounds like there is quite a bit of Fairlight in it. Anyway it is very cheesy Stop The Madness

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] CMI IIx for sale ?

2006-05-10 by Harald Feldmann

Hi Steve, I wouldn't sell mine under US 5000.- and some were sold around 6k so anything lower than that is a good price, depending on the state of the unit. It should definitely have a working pen, working screen and ASCII keyboard, and a basic library. If it comes in flightcases

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Where to buy replacement Lightpen

2006-05-10 by colin.a.ross@btopenworld.com

Hi Frank Thanks for the info........thats why I started this group. regards Colin. --- Frank Reggiani wrote: > Hey there Derek (and everyone in the group) - > > The lightpens for the Series II/IIx were originally > made by Information Control Corp., located here in > Los Angeles.

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CMI IIx for sale

2006-05-10 by boygirlygoo

Hello does anyone have a cmi IIx for sale please,can anyone give me an idea of what i should pay for one in good condition,thanks.

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Where to buy replacement Lightpen

2006-05-10 by Frank Reggiani

Hey there Derek (and everyone in the group) - The lightpens for the Series II/IIx were originally made by Information Control Corp., located here in Los Angeles. Back in 1999, I was able to get a hold of Willie Phox, who was still running ICC (as a side business, I believe). Back

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Where to buy replacement Lightpen

2006-05-07 by Derek

I was referred to this group by a repair technician, as I am looking for a new Lightpen for my friend's Fairlight CMI-IIx. He is planning to sell it soon, and we would like to get a few more recordings out of it before it goes to some lucky buyer... Does anyone have a source for

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] fairlight records

2006-05-06 by linear226@excite.com

also check out herbie hancock "future shock" album including the seminal "rockit" extensive use of the series2 here and also peter gabriels "gabriel3" album and the album "security" very experimental use of series 2 and 3. mindblowing stuff and still stands up today. also much ka

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Another Video Clip

2006-05-04 by Roland

Hello there, anyone has seen the clip "Etude" by Mike Oldfield ? It's on the "Elements" DVD, lovely presentation of his Series II Fairlight. Cheers Roland ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.ya

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SV: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] fairlight records

2006-05-04 by Brian Ronn

Hi Laurent, That is a great clip :-) Don´t you or others have the entire song for us to watch? In the late 80's Jan Hammer made another music video of a Miami Vice theme where he was playing his SIII facing a large screen with the Miaimi Vice series running. Does anybody know if

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] fairlight records

2006-05-03 by Laird Fairlight

Also check out OMD's Pacific Age (one of my fav's), A-Ha's Hunting High and Low is a great one as well as any Tony Mansfield produced album. Not a big B-52's fan but "Summer of Love" and "Girl from Ipanema" are very "Fairlit". Whatever happened to Tony? Is he still producing? col

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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] fairlight records

2006-05-02 by Lars Johansson

----- Ursprungligt meddelande ----- Från: "santiago jaramillo" Till: Skickat: den 2 maj 2006 22:58 Ämne: [Fairlight-CMI] fairlight records >i need help, i just wnat to see if you guys can give me some records > where fairlight were used any you know , i am just collecting them to

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RE: [Fairlight-CMI] fairlight records

2006-05-02 by Rob Puricelli

Have a look here…. http://www.ghservices.com/gregh/fairligh/topsong/ It’s not exhaustive but gives a very good list. Rob. From: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of santiago jaramillo Sent: 02 May 2006 21:58 To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogrou

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