Fairlight-CMI

Hi group,

I can't give you too much background info on the Vince Clarke mp3.  I 
would have loved to scan the article in but...read on.

Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music was a magazine published in 
the UK between 1983 and 1985 to compete with Electronics and Music 
Maker (E&MM).  The magazine feature bands of the time , the gear of 
the time and readers musical efforts.  I know Kate and her Fairlight 
featured in E&MM and she featured into ES&CM too. 
http://gaffa.org/reaching/i83_es.html

From October 1985 to September 1985 it also came with a C60 
cassette.  I had ALL the issues until my Mum in a fit of tidiness 
threw them out (along with my E&MMs) when I was at University some 
years later.

Fortunately I have retained all the tapes.  The tapes contain various 
synths, sampler and drum machines demos along with amateur and 
professional band demos and songs.  I can mention demos of Emulator 
II, Ensoniq Mirage, Kurzweil 250, Yamaha TX816,  PPG 2.3 with 
Waveterm B etc etc all the big synths/samplers of that time.  If 
anyone is interested in hearing a particular synth again, give me a 
shout and I see if its on the tape.

Incidentally, they published a circuit and some software for the ZX 
Spectrum to make a sound sampler which I successfully built.  You 
could only playback monophonically and sample for only a second at 
25kHz but you could play it back from you analog synth CV output.  
Lots of aliasing (like the Fairlight) because it had NO filters.  I 
made a lot of demos with this unit for drum loops and I remember 
sampling Kate Bush Fairlight samples from The Hounds Of Love - ha - 
the circle closes!  I still have that (awfully) primitive demo on 
tape - hell it was 1985 and I was 15 and I had no money.

Cheers

Chris

P.S.  I still have the ZX Spectrum,  the sampler box I made and the 
software!!!

Hi Colin,
 
Don't worry, this IS in my game plan.
 
However, it has to fit in with transferring my Hi-8 home videos to 
DVD format and my own demo tapes to mp3 format.
 
It WILL happen and I'll let you know when I've done it.  But 
realistically it going to be 6 months away.
 
Yes, I agree, it is musical history.  I have done some recording of 
them already i.e Mirage, TX816 but not complete tapes including the 
dated sounding adverts!  Worryingly one tape with Synclavier 
resynthesis sounds sounded very wobbly!  I hope I'm not too late.
 
Cheers
 
Chris

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Colin Ross" 
<colin.a.ross@b...> wrote:
> Hi Chris
> I know this is allot to ask but PLEASE PLEASE could you copy the 
tapes and
> put them on digital format (CD) These are a piece of musical 
history and I

> would love to hear and achieve them.
> Best regards
> Colin
> PS. GIVE YOU SOME SERIES III SAMPLES FOR YOUR TROUBLE!!!!!!

Hi Chris
I know this is allot to ask but PLEASE PLEASE could you copy the tapes and
put them on digital format (CD) These are a piece of musical history and I
would love to hear and achieve them.
Best regards
Colin
PS. GIVE YOU SOME SERIES III SAMPLES FOR YOUR TROUBLE!!!!!!



----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Chris Strellis" <synthasy2000@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Electronic Soundmaker background


> Hi group,
>
> I can't give you too much background info on the Vince Clarke mp3.  I
> would have loved to scan the article in but...read on.
>
> Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music was a magazine published in
> the UK between 1983 and 1985 to compete with Electronics and Music
> Maker (E&MM).  The magazine feature bands of the time , the gear of
> the time and readers musical efforts.  I know Kate and her Fairlight
> featured in E&MM and she featured into ES&CM too.
> http://gaffa.org/reaching/i83_es.html
>
> >From October 1985 to September 1985 it also came with a C60
> cassette.  I had ALL the issues until my Mum in a fit of tidiness
> threw them out (along with my E&MMs) when I was at University some
> years later.
>
> Fortunately I have retained all the tapes.  The tapes contain various
> synths, sampler and drum machines demos along with amateur and
> professional band demos and songs.  I can mention demos of Emulator
> II, Ensoniq Mirage, Kurzweil 250, Yamaha TX816,  PPG 2.3 with
> Waveterm B etc etc all the big synths/samplers of that time.  If
> anyone is interested in hearing a particular synth again, give me a
> shout and I see if its on the tape.
>
> Incidentally, they published a circuit and some software for the ZX
> Spectrum to make a sound sampler which I successfully built.  You
> could only playback monophonically and sample for only a second at
> 25kHz but you could play it back from you analog synth CV output.
> Lots of aliasing (like the Fairlight) because it had NO filters.  I
> made a lot of demos with this unit for drum loops and I remember
> sampling Kate Bush Fairlight samples from The Hounds Of Love - ha -
> the circle closes!  I still have that (awfully) primitive demo on
> tape - hell it was 1985 and I was 15 and I had no money.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>
> P.S.  I still have the ZX Spectrum,  the sampler box I made and the
> software!!!
>
>
>
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