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What is this particular MFX thing?

2005-05-06 by modularmoog

Hi Everyone - 

Perhaps someone here can enlighten me...

On a whim, I bought this "MFX" that had previously been listed on a 
certain auction site, knowing that it had no cards in the cage.  I 
was also told that it had no power supply, but that was incorrect.

All of the I/O cards are there, as well as the front and back 
backplanes.  also, all the ribbon connectors, etc.  

Can anyone tell me what I bought and what cards should be in the 
cage itself?

The cards on the back are:

MFX Sync/Control I/O panel
4 x MFX AD O/P (line out and digital out D-Subs)
2 x MFX AD I/O (Line in, line out, and digital I/O D-subs)
The main panel with mixer, video, and modem D Subs.

The Digital Output cards are labeled CMI336 and have a daughter card 
for the analog I/O on them.  They're dated from 1998.  I haven't 
checked the other cards yet.

Basically, I was hoping that it would be a system where I could put 
in a spare set of CMI III computer cards and use it to organize 
sounds and whatnot.  (I don't have a III, but have a lot of tapes 
and disks, as well as a good load of spares)  

Looking inside the chassis, I see only 11 slots in the motherboard 
(Rev. 2.1).

Can anyone tell me what cards should be in here?  What version of 
the MFX is this?

Also, is there anyway to run it with the CMI software and a CMI III 
keyboard?

Thanks,

Tim

Re: [Fairlight-CMI] What is this particular MFX thing?

2005-05-06 by james

you have a MFX3, no cmi inside , its only a direct to disk. A sort of 
downgrade compared to the mfx2 which is the only fairlight to support dtd 
and cmi.
you can use it for sound post production.


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Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] What is this particular MFX thing?


> Hi Everyone -
>
> Perhaps someone here can enlighten me...
>
> On a whim, I bought this "MFX" that had previously been listed on a
> certain auction site, knowing that it had no cards in the cage.  I
> was also told that it had no power supply, but that was incorrect.
>
> All of the I/O cards are there, as well as the front and back
> backplanes.  also, all the ribbon connectors, etc.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I bought and what cards should be in the
> cage itself?
>
> The cards on the back are:
>
> MFX Sync/Control I/O panel
> 4 x MFX AD O/P (line out and digital out D-Subs)
> 2 x MFX AD I/O (Line in, line out, and digital I/O D-subs)
> The main panel with mixer, video, and modem D Subs.
>
> The Digital Output cards are labeled CMI336 and have a daughter card
> for the analog I/O on them.  They're dated from 1998.  I haven't
> checked the other cards yet.
>
> Basically, I was hoping that it would be a system where I could put
> in a spare set of CMI III computer cards and use it to organize
> sounds and whatnot.  (I don't have a III, but have a lot of tapes
> and disks, as well as a good load of spares)
>
> Looking inside the chassis, I see only 11 slots in the motherboard
> (Rev. 2.1).
>
> Can anyone tell me what cards should be in here?  What version of
> the MFX is this?
>
> Also, is there anyway to run it with the CMI software and a CMI III
> keyboard?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: [Fairlight-CMI] What is this particular MFX thing?

2005-05-07 by Tim Curtis

Okay, so I'm an idiot...

I took a look at the back again,.  In very small letters it says 
"Fairlight MFX 3 Plus".

Okay - here's a new question:

I see that the main difference between the MFX3 and the MFX3 plus is the 
change in the main processor cards being replaced by the ESP-WX card.  
Is the rest of the machine basically the same?

The reson I'm asking is because I'm wondering if I can instead set this 
up as a standard MFX3, which I guess can use the CMI software.

Anybody know if the motherboards are the same?  How about the I/O cards?

Thanks,

Tim


james wrote:

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> you have a MFX3, no cmi inside , its only a direct to disk. A sort of
> downgrade compared to the mfx2 which is the only fairlight to support dtd
> and cmi.
> you can use it for sound post production.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "modularmoog" <sexsymbol@execpc.com>
> To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 8:38 PM
> Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] What is this particular MFX thing?
>
>
> > Hi Everyone -
> >
> > Perhaps someone here can enlighten me...
> >
> > On a whim, I bought this "MFX" that had previously been listed on a
> > certain auction site, knowing that it had no cards in the cage.  I
> > was also told that it had no power supply, but that was incorrect.
> >
> > All of the I/O cards are there, as well as the front and back
> > backplanes.  also, all the ribbon connectors, etc.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what I bought and what cards should be in the
> > cage itself?
> >
> > The cards on the back are:
> >
> > MFX Sync/Control I/O panel
> > 4 x MFX AD O/P (line out and digital out D-Subs)
> > 2 x MFX AD I/O (Line in, line out, and digital I/O D-subs)
> > The main panel with mixer, video, and modem D Subs.
> >
> > The Digital Output cards are labeled CMI336 and have a daughter card
> > for the analog I/O on them.  They're dated from 1998.  I haven't
> > checked the other cards yet.
> >
> > Basically, I was hoping that it would be a system where I could put
> > in a spare set of CMI III computer cards and use it to organize
> > sounds and whatnot.  (I don't have a III, but have a lot of tapes
> > and disks, as well as a good load of spares)
> >
> > Looking inside the chassis, I see only 11 slots in the motherboard
> > (Rev. 2.1).
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what cards should be in here?  What version of
> > the MFX is this?
> >
> > Also, is there anyway to run it with the CMI software and a CMI III
> > keyboard?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] What is this particular MFX thing?

2005-05-07 by Harald Feldmann

Hi Tim,

> I took a look at the back again,.  In very small letters it says
> "Fairlight MFX 3 Plus".

> The reson I'm asking is because I'm wondering if I can instead set this
> up as a standard MFX3, which I guess can use the CMI software.

No, only a CMI with MFX2 capability can be used as a CMI. You cannot
create CMI capability on an MFX3.

It is like a truck (CMI) pulling a trailer (MFX), it doesn't work the
other way around.

Regards,
Harald.