Fairlight-CMI

Hi all
Some news on the 2004 meeting.
Sound On Sound are getting interested in running a piece for their 
mag at the meeting. The 2004 is starting to hot up with the 
conformation of Andy Richards. Andy Richards was and still is a big 
Fairlight Fan. He said "I would be delighted to chat about my 
Fairlight experiences in the 80's and 90's to the forum." He worked 
and produced the following, this was taken from his web site:

READ ON AFTER ANDY'S CV AS THERE IS MORE ABOUT 2004 MEETING!!!!!!

In 1983, I produced an album for an independent record label in 
Stoke-on-Trent, UK and it was mixed by Julian Mendelsohn, the house 
engineer at Sarm East. Later that year, Trevor Horn, looking for a 
new keyboard player / programmer to work with, asked Julian if he 
could recommend anyone. Julian suggested that Trevor give me a 
ring ......

During that period and on, I worked with Trevor and Stephen Lipson 
on the following projects:

FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 'Relax', 'Two Tribes' & both their albums 
PROPAGANDA singles and the album, 'A Secret Wish' 
GRACE JONES 'Slave To The Rhythm' 
GODLEY & CREME 'Cry' 


Over the next few years, as a keyboard player and programmer, I 
worked with many producers including Peter Collins, Mutt Lange, 
Giorgio Moroder and Arif Mardin and with artists including: 

THE PET SHOP BOYS 'It's A Sin', 'Heart', 'Always on My Mind' and the 
album, 'Actually' 
GEORGE MICHAEL 'Careless Whisper' 
ERROL BROWN Various Tracks 
JUNIOR Single 
DONNA SUMMER Various Tracks 
BROS Their 1st album 
WET WET WET Tracks 
DEF LEPPARD 'Hysteria' Album 
TEARS FOR FEARS Album Tracks 
SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK Singles 
NIK KERSHAW Singles & 2 albums 
CHRIS DE BURGH 'Lady In Red' and 2 albums 
GARY MOORE (& with PHIL LYNOTT) Various Singles & Albums 
RUSH 2 albums 
LIZA MINELLI Singles with Pet Shop Boys 
BLANCMANGE Singles 
TRACY ULLMAN Singles 
AIR SUPPLY Album 
THE GLAM METAL DETECTIVES Album 


And more recently I've worked with:

CHER Her most recent album 
ANNIE LENNOX 'No More I Love Yous' and the album, 'Medusa' 
TINA TURNER Her latest Album 
BABYLON ZOO No. 1 single 'Spaceman' plus 3 of the Album Tracks for 
EMI Records 
TRUE BLUE (movie - 1996) Programmed and recorded the underscore for 
the British Movie, working with Polish composer Stanisalas Syrewicz 


Over the years, I've moved from Keyboard Playing and Programming 
into Record Production and along the way have scored jingles both 
for Electronic Instruments and Orchestra. During my career, the 
artists that I've produced include:

SANJAY KAPIL A gifted World Artist who sings in Hindi & English. 
Production of 3 Singles for Elektra Records in the US. 
SEBASTIAN THOMAS 2 Singles. Sebastian is an Australian soul singer 
signed to Arcade Records in Germany. What a voice! 
ALISTAIR FOSTER 3 singles for this Danish singer/songwriter on 
Iceberg Records. A beautiful voice with attitude. 
ALPHAVILLE Their new album, 'Salvation',which was released 
September '97. Techno meets contemporary pop. 
JOANNA de SEYNE A development artist and songwriter, with tracks due 
out later this year. 
PREFAB SPROUT 'Hey Manhattan!' 
THE PET SHOP BOYS 'Heart' - #1 single worldwide except, sadly, for 
the US! 
FUZZBOX 3 Top 20 singles and a Top 5 UK album. 
OMD 3 tracks on the 'Sugar Tax' album 
INGA HUMPE The Album, 'Planet Oz' 
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD 'Reputation' 
HOLLY JOHNSON 'Love Train', 'Americanos' and 2 albums, including the 
first that reached #1 
T'PAU 'The Promise' Top 5 album and a Top 20 single 
MALCOLM McLAREN Tracks on the 'Waltz Darling' 
PETULA CLARK 3 titles for MJJ Productions, including 'Oxygen' 
ROBIN BECK The album 'Can't Get Off' for East West Records, Germany 
CORY HART The album 'Young Man Running' 
UMBERTO TOZZI 5 titles for East West, UK 
NICK KAMEN 2 tracks on the album 'Move Until We Fly' 
PETER KINGSBERY 2 singles for Barclay Records, France 
PIERRE MORIN 2 singles for BMG/Ariola, France 
THE FLOOD The single 'Right Here, Right Now' 
BERLIN Album 
TURNAROUND (movie - 1986) Co-wrote and produced the underscore with 
Mark Shreive from Zomba Productions 
WHITE DOOR My very first album production - 1983! 

READ ON READ ON READ ON

As you can see Andy has worked with the best and I'm looking forward 
to see him at the meeting.

There has been discussions that the meeting sould be just after or 
just before the Frankfort Show so that the guys from the USA/ 
Canada / Australia can attend. This to me sounds great ....tell me 
what you all think. 

A NEW DATABASE WILL BE PUT ON THE FORUM FOR MEMBERS ATTENDING GREGS 
MEETING IF NOT AROUND FRANKFORT.....READ ON

The possibility of a link if not around Frankfort will be costly and 
this makes the members fee more costly for the day which I trying to 
keep to a minimum. This is what I feel is fair. The UK will hire the 
projector (if a member going to the UK venue has one please let me 
know)and I'll supply the computer(laptop)if someone has a webcam 
please let me know also. Greg and his guests fund the cost of the 
connection between the two venues and any aditional costs due to 
that connection. I will have to look for a venue with broadband and 
ask them for a deal. I feel that it's a good idea of the link up 
it's just the cost that concerns me. 
I will be asking for all members to help in any way they can. I'll 
be doing things in the next couple of months with the forum to fund 
raise to keep the cost of the UK venue down. If it goes to plan the 
fee for the day will not be very much each I promise. I am starting 
3 new databases after conformation of venue, to keep all things 
above board:

Donations or purchase fund raise from members attending UK: members 
name beside it and total amount.

Donations or purchase fun raise from members other/outside UK: 
members name beside it and total amount.

The day's Fee with the members name beside it attending UK.

This will start only when we have the :
Venue
Date
The right amount of members (30 minimum)attending the UK meeting.
PAYMENTS THROUGH PAYPAL OR TRANSFER. UK MEMBERS PAYPAL CHEQUE + PO 
ALSO

I will be putting my hand in my pocket to make this day 
unforgettable. We (The Forum)are waiting for a few more Special 
guests to confirm that they will attend. They will be attending free 
and we will be paying for their meal(s)which I feel is fair. Things 
that will make up for it is that each member that attends will have 
free access to a large library of samples for both Series II and 
Series III. Each member will also receive a CD Rom full of their 
instruments documentations and some goodies. Some never seen before 
since the 80's. A day you will never forget. Non Fairlight users 
will get some extra goodies. Any monies left over will be used for 
the bar that night. There will be loads of demos,chats,gifts and 
FUN.....
HOPEFULLY I WILL BE ADDING SOME MORE SPECIAL GUEST SOON.
Please let me know what your thoughts are.
Best and kind regards
Colin
PS GREG PLEASE COME BACK TO ME WITH YOUR VIEWS. I HOPE THIS IS A 
GOOD COMPROMISE.

Colin,

Sounds good!

As mentioned, I am in an area with many hotels and convention facilities
(Niagara). No doubt, most have broadband. I can look into the rough
costs in the next week. Audio is more important than video, I'm sure
you'll agree!

As you said, firm plans don't need to be made until the attendees are
established. We can determine the scale of the venue at that point. I'm
happy to host a small group at my place! A more ambitious alternative is
to place the North American venue in, say, New York City, but that would
be out of my hands.

However, the first thing to find out is how many would be interested in
a North American meeting. With sufficient interest here, I'm sure that
there could be media coverage and high-profile Fairlight owners as well.
(Hey -- I think that EVERYONE who owns a Fairlight is high-profile!)

Due to the ~5 hour time difference, the two meetings would run
independantly for most of the day, overlapping at around 4pm to 8pm UK
time (11am to 3pm our time). Communications costs should be acceptable.

Comments?



Colin Ross wrote:
> Some news on the 2004 meeting.
>
> The possibility of a link if not around Frankfort will be costly and
> this makes the members fee more costly for the day which I trying to
> keep to a minimum. This is what I feel is fair. The UK will hire the
> projector (if a member going to the UK venue has one please let me
> know)and I'll supply the computer(laptop)if someone has a webcam
> please let me know also. Greg and his guests fund the cost of the
> connection between the two venues and any aditional costs due to
> that connection. I will have to look for a venue with broadband and
> ask them for a deal. I feel that it's a good idea of the link up
> it's just the cost that concerns me.
> 
> This will start only when we have the :
> Venue
> Date
> The right amount of members (30 minimum)attending the UK meeting.
> PAYMENTS THROUGH PAYPAL OR TRANSFER. UK MEMBERS PAYPAL CHEQUE + PO
> 
> ..snip..


-- 
Greg Holmes
mailto:gregh@ghservices.com
GH Services, Ontario, Canada
http://www.ghservices.com/
http://www.ghservices.com/gregh/fairligh/         (Fairlight CMI)


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Hi guys,

I'm thinking about joining the meeting in London, but I'm not sure I 
have some spare time left around that time. 

I would be very interested if 3 things came up:
- Checking if the series III hard drive card can actually work on a 
IIx (possibly with OS9). Peter mentioned once that it should work as 
far as hardware is concerned, but how about the software?
- Any way to transfer files from my IIx to PC apart from floppies
There was some rumour that there is a spare com port lurking 
somewhere in the IIx which could be used for this.
- Some hardware thingy to replace the IIx monitor/keyboard with a 
standard PC. It should be possible to connect a VGA monitor using a 
composite video to VGA converter, but I'm thinking more along the 
lines of actually using a PC to control the IIx. I think the series 
III already has something like that.

Cheers all.
Patrick

This sounds very cool! Would it also be possible to control the CMI 
through the USB connection? 

I sure don't like poking around the innards of my machine (yep, for 
collectors value). And I'm supposed to be electro-technical 
engineer. ;-)

I also don't think 760 is to much considering the value of the CMI 
itself. 

Keep us posted.

Cheers,
Patrick

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Jean-Bernard EMOND" 
<jbemond@f...> wrote:

> Hello everybody , in particular the CMI II and IIx users.
> 
> I answer the preceding mail of Patrick.
> 
> etc...