Fairlight-CMI

I read this in a Curt Smith interview on the web:

"A few days ago I was offered a Fairlight CMI series III, MFX 2 which reportedly belonged to Tears For Fears. Does this mean you no longer use the Fairlight for your albums ? How important would you rate the Fairlight for your past and current work ? - Harald F

Answer: Very important in the past but there are better and cheaper ways to do the same thing now."

Harald, I take it this is you ;-)

Better and cheaper ways!!! Come on Curt, what a shocking statement. Compare the quality!!!

P

-----Original Message-----
From: David J. Wilson [mailto:jeepcherokee_10@yahoo.com]
Sent: 05 October 2004 00:01
To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Tears for Fears interview




I have that issue too (Keyboard mag), they did indeed mention their
Series III quite a bit in the interview.  It's a shame they
didn't carry on with the Series III,  I found their music
to be pretty uninteresting in the '90's  (IMHO).  I seem to 
recall reading about Roland Orzabal mentioning he was using
some of the Series III library string samples in his Roland S-770
sampler in the '90's.  C'mon, just use the III, !!

David

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Malte Rogacki <gacki@g...> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm looking for an article interviewing "Tears For Fears", which
would've
> >been printed around 1989/90. It was in something like Music
Technology or
> >Sound on Sound. They mention the Fairlight and thier SSL desk a
fair bit.
> >Ring any bells?
> 
> There was an interview in the american "keyboard" mag approximately
at the
> time "Sowing the seeds of love" came out. They spoke indeed a bit
about the
> Fairlight. I have that issue somewhere, I think.
> 
> -- 
> Malte Rogacki gacki@g...
>
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Hi Peter,

Yes I posted a request, but not in this wording. I specifically asked for
the serialnumber of their CMI, with regard to the offering I was made. I
bought the unit nevertheless for its MFX value. The MKB that came with the
unit supposedly belonged to JJ Jeczalik. (has anyone else been offered an
MKB from JJ ?)

HOWEVER... Peter Wielk stated the previous owner was Peter Williams, from
whom I bought the unit. They are friends. I know that the unit is old and
that Peter Williams has indeed used an MFX2 in his zerosphere studio
(SoundOnSound interview, a NAIM of Note
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun01/articles/naimlabel.asp )
The MFX2 splash screen lists zerosphere, so I presume this is indeed the
unit mentioned in the article. There is no official link to the previous
owners at this point, however the thought is inspiring.

To answer you other question in the other mail, yes I am still waiting for
Peter Williams to come up with the optical drive. It was supposed to be
delivered with the unit but it was sworn to be mailed to me a week later.
After various emails, some recent, Peter still has to mail it.

Cheers ! :-)
Harald.

> I read this in a Curt Smith interview on the web:
>
> "A few days ago I was offered a Fairlight CMI series III, MFX 2 which
> reportedly belonged to Tears For Fears. Does this mean you no longer use
> the Fairlight for your albums ? How important would you rate the Fairlight
> for your past and current work ? - Harald F
>
> Answer: Very important in the past but there are better and cheaper ways
> to do the same thing now."
>
> Harald, I take it this is you ;-)
>
> Better and cheaper ways!!! Come on Curt, what a shocking statement.
> Compare the quality!!!
>
> P

Well, having used the Roland S-770 for years alongside a series III I would have to say the 
Roland is the best sounding sampler after the series III. It sounds excellent and is much 
more powerful in some ways. Taking clicks out of samples takles me about 5 seconds in 
the roland. Timestretch, better multimode, portability! The filters are very good indeed 
and with the monitor hooked up and the remote control with mouse, it's a brilliant system. 
Some things are better than the seies III and some worse, but it keeps the fairlight on it's 
toes sonically! I don't think Roland  (the company) should be blamed for TFF quality after 
'90, but Roland (the man)!!

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Connelly \(Core Design Ltd.\)" 
<PeterC@C...> wrote:
> I read this in a Curt Smith interview on the web:
> 
> "A few days ago I was offered a Fairlight CMI series III, MFX 2 which reportedly belonged 
to Tears For Fears. Does this mean you no longer use the Fairlight for your albums ? How 
important would you rate the Fairlight for your past and current work ? - Harald F
> 
> Answer: Very important in the past but there are better and cheaper ways to do the 
same thing now."
> 
> Harald, I take it this is you ;-)
> 
> Better and cheaper ways!!! Come on Curt, what a shocking statement. Compare the 
quality!!!

> 
> P
> 
>  
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