Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Recreating the Fairlight
2008-06-23 by NormLeete@aol.com
Dear All,
This is a serious reply - honest.
The nearest I have ever come to successfully recreate the sound of my IIx
CMI was when we (for a bit of a laugh) created a set of Mellotron tapes, each
with 8 seconds of each note. The resulting 35 tapes were threaded into a frame
and the results were amazing.
The Mellotron is a reasonably hi fi machine as the tapes run at 71/2 IPS
and theoretical top frequency is about 15 kHz. However I believe is was a
success because the unique sound of each note was captured and the Mellotron
messes up the sound in a random way when more than one note is played.
We tried the experiment with ARR1, SAXY and SWANNEE. Results were the same
for each.
Norm