RE: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Recreating the Fairlight
2008-06-23 by Harald Feldmann
Hi Rob, No I do not take it as a personal attack and you may have a point regarding the 808s etc. Given the interest for the real thing, there obviously still is a market for them. Regards, Harald.
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> Harald, > > > > Without wanting to be argumentative, and this is in no way a personal > attack, if we are completely honest, the Fairlight "market" was about 30 > years ago. There are so few of these machines out there today that to > simply > knock aside the concept of a software emulation smacks of snobbery and > elitism. > > > > As has been pointed out since, a faithful software recreation could > actually > benefit the minuscule used market in the real thing. Did Rebirth knock > down > the prices of 808's, 909's and 303's ? Far from it ! Is there still a > roaring trade in DX7's, Jupiter 8's, Minimoog's, Wavestation's, M1's, > MS20's, MonoPoly's, Polysix's, Oscar's..? I could go on and on. > > > > Suffice to say, if a software recreation materialised, I'd be the first to > buy it, and if I ever had the good fortune to have enough money and have > it > at the same time that a real CMI became available, I'd be buying that too > as > I'd rather have the real deal every time. > > > > As I have said, this isn't a personal attack and I hope you don't take it > that way :o) > > > > Rob. > > > > From: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of Harald Feldmann > Sent: 23 June 2008 14:04 > To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com > Subject: RE: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Recreating the Fairlight > > > > Recreating a Fairlight sound completely in software ruins the market for a > unit. Keep that in mind. > > Regards, > Harald. > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1513 - Release Date: 22/06/2008 > 07:52 > >