Fairlight-CMI

Reading the review in keyboard mag this month, it states that Giga can
import Fairlight format samples.

Has anyone on the list used this facility? How good is it? Does it
work with CMI HDs connected via SCSI on your PC?

I managed to convert all my Fairlight sounds 1 year ago directly from 
my Hd' s using cmios9 ( kmi ), but you lost the fairlight filter + its 
particular pitch shifting ( from 5hz to 200 khz) + its unique sound-
converters. 

So you can imagine the sounds are hmmm near useless.

Finally the best way I find is to record the analog output of the 
fairlight using an apogee but the software sampler doesn' t reproduce 
the original pitch shifting "effect" , so it' s still far from the 
original.

Fairlight is a like a Stradivarius . Hard to catch in a modern 
computer .

James

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Tomás <tomulcahy@...> wrote:

>
> Reading the review in keyboard mag this month, it states that Giga can
> import Fairlight format samples.
> 
> Has anyone on the list used this facility? How good is it? Does it
> work with CMI HDs connected via SCSI on your PC?
>

> How does the Fairlight pitch shifter work in comparison to other samplers,
> such as Giga or contact?

That's because that's true, clock-driven sample-playback speed change and
not software resampling.

> Can't clock driven sample playback be replicated / emulated?

well, the idea is that ALL sample playback is clock-driven, however the
Fairlight realizes all shift in hardware, basically by slowing or speeding
up the converter (in laymans terms). The software always resamples the
input to change pitch, and unless you have a few hundred kHz converters
and/or waaaayyyyyyyyy too much oversampling, the math comes back with a
vengeance- the fraction is always a fraction.

--

Hi James,

Did you get my email about this?

Thanks...

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "paradyse_james"
<paradyse_james@...> wrote:

>
> I managed to convert all my Fairlight sounds 1 year ago directly from 
> my Hd' s using cmios9 ( kmi ), but you lost the fairlight filter + its 
> particular pitch shifting ( from 5hz to 200 khz) + its unique sound-
> converters. 
> 
> So you can imagine the sounds are hmmm near useless.
> 
> Finally the best way I find is to record the analog output of the 
> fairlight using an apogee but the software sampler doesn' t reproduce 
> the original pitch shifting "effect" , so it' s still far from the 
> original.
> 
> Fairlight is a like a Stradivarius . Hard to catch in a modern 
> computer .
> 
> James
> 
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Tomás <tomulcahy@> wrote:
> >
> > Reading the review in keyboard mag this month, it states that Giga can
> > import Fairlight format samples.
> > 
> > Has anyone on the list used this facility? How good is it? Does it
> > work with CMI HDs connected via SCSI on your PC?
> >
>