Hi James
I think you've misunderstood my email or I have not
explained it properly. I'm not asking anyone to work
for free what I'm saying is that the 32mb cards can be
made for a hell of allot less than £600. Emails I've
got from a user/s across the globe states that these
could be made for approx £100 - £125 and that he would
make them for that. He is happy to supply these for
that price and that includes his time producing them.
The components used in the 80's at the time was the
best out there but technology has came a long way in
20+ years , better and much cheaper. I knew before i
wrote the email that it would ruffle feathers but I
felt this email had to be wrote because many users
email me on a daily basis and the amount of telephone
calls I get about this has came to a stage were I
needed to voice it on there behalf. I can not bring
these ideas to life by myself I need everyone's help
and to get everyone on-board or the Fairlight
community will forever go around in circles. I started
this forum to help and make steady progress forward
and in a way I feel I've achieved this but 3 years on
I feel this progress is not were I wanted it to be.
Hope this answers a few questions and if anyone has
any ideas or question voice them.
Regards
Colin
--- James Thomson <jamesthomson@mac.com> wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> I think your idea of a CMI 3 sound library on a
> dedicated server is a great
> idea. Why can't you offer this now by having a CMI 3
> 4 gig formatted drive
> mounted on a dedicated server ? We could then all
> access this via FTP and
> download it onto our dedicated CMI 3 drives. We
> could also send you any of
> our sounds and you could compile everything.
> Some of the things you mention such as software
> updates,32 meg RAM cards
> have taken or will take many hours of time to bring
> to fruition. True ,there
> are a lot of technically minded CMI owners here but
> why should their efforts
> be for free?
> The trouble is,is that a lot of Fairlight
> owners/enthusiasts all want
> something for nothing. They think Fairlight stuff
> should cost next to
> nothing. I think much of this comes from the " free
> software " culture that
> exists now. Nobody wants to pay a good price for
> highly engineered hardware
> anymore. I personally think Fairlight system/parts
> are worth paying a good
> price for because of the uniqueness/sound quality of
> the system.
> We used to have so many audio companies competing
> with one another and now
> we have Digidesign and Apple computer. We are in a "
> Microsoft " situation
> in the audio community and I think its bad for all
> of us.
> I think paying £ 500.00 is worth it for a WFM-32
> and I would also be
> willing to pay £ 750.00- £ 850.00 for an alternative
> sound storage method
> for the CMI 2X. Imagine a CMI2X without 8" floppy
> disks churning away in the
> background ! If this ever happens it will have taken
> a lot of hours of work
> and the inventor/designer should make some good
> money from it. There are few
> user /owners around the world so this should be
> reflected in the price of
> the product.
> Anyway these are my thoughts !
>
> Regards,
>
>
> James Thomson
>
> Magic Audio Co.
> The Studio
> West Hampstead
> London NW2 3RJ
> U.K.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 1/6/05 09:57, "Colin Ross"
> <colin.a.ross@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
> > I feel with talent on this forum we should do
> allot more sharing of ideas or
> > help
> > one another more. I would like to see Rob's
> programme CMI Explorer
> > enhanced with VS to Wave, Aiff etc and could you
> believe the power of this if
> > it
> > could turn wave, aiff akai etc to VS. The
> programme alone is fantastic but
> > with
> > a bit more programming it would be the most major
> developments for a Series
> > III. This would make life allot more easier for a
> goal I have to have a
> > Fairlight-
> > CMI Forum Library Database were everyone submits
> samples and users at
> > anytime can download samples they don't have. A
> Library would have a
> > directory of every sound and all we would have to
> do is start a web page for
> > Downloads that would cost buttons. Everyone here
> on this forum wants that,
> > lets make it happen. We have engineers;
> programmers here in the group lets
> > use them. The 32 MB Ram cards have been a big
> priority for the Series III
> > users for nearly 3 years now lets share the
> information and make them. The
> > components needed are so cheap and a member in the
> USA has the
> > machines to make these boards and insert the
> components. Lets do it. Lets try
> > and get other media options for the Series II.
> Lets look at updated software
> > Revs for Series II III. We all know these are
> possible ideas. Let not make it
> > a
> > moneymaking organization but a shared community
> task.
> > Regards
> > Colin
> > Let me know what you all think
>
>
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