Fairlight-CMI

Hi Patrick, Welcome
I would like to take up some of your points.
It would be great for all the Fairlight manuals could be redone as 
it seems that, the ones doing the rounds are the same copies which 
are good but not 100%. These are the copies that JB Emonds had on 
his site which has closed. He was a great Fairlight guy because when 
alot of people needed these manuals he had them there and allowed 
you to freely download them. He is working on a new site, about 9 
months now and I can't wait for it to be finished. (Please hurry JB)
I think I'm sure in saying that the "Voice Cards" in the Fairlight 
CMI IIx is the same as the Series III,(I'm 95% about this) If 
someone here could also confirm this that would be great. If this is 
so I have a Series III Service manual with the "Voice Card" 
schematrics in it I could send you it.
With the 6809 Assembler I'm not 100% with, could you email back with 
some extra details.
Fan noise can be a concern to a studio, and the fairlight likes to 
be heard. I can't see why you can't change them for a more modern 
fan as long as it is the same voltage, these are less noisier and 
more reliable.
On the Hard Disk issue for a series IIx, this was done at a cost. 
There was a Fairlight CMI Series IIL this was a Fairlight upgrade 
sold to the group QUEEN. It was a model between the IIx and the 
launch of the Series III. It gave them alot of trouble. I also think 
that Nick Rhodes used one on the Arcadia project "So Red The Rose" I 
have an interview of him in 1985 towards the end of making the 
album. He says that he has seen but has not used the new series III 
but said that his Fairlight had now 16 track sequencer..... "Also, I 
like the writing page on the Fairlight. I've gotten used to it over 
the past few years, and now that it's been expanded from eight 
tracks to sixteen, that's even more handy. I used that a lot on the 
Arcadia album.".....
So Patrick it can be done. About a year ago I was talking to Peter 
about a HD for the IIx. He said that a friend of his was working on 
this but have not heard anymore. No one wants to try out putting a 
HD into their Series IIx just in case they do it harm.
Posting samples, this is a subject that has mixed opinions. I'am all 
on for trading samples but it's making it work. To post them is very 
easy but to get the sample image is a bit more difficult. There is a 
software called Teledisk first made by the US FBI (WHICH I'LL POST 
ON THE FORUM'S FILE PAGE AFTER THIS POSTING)that copies any disk in 
a 3.25 5.25 and 8 inch disks but you must use proper MS DOS on PC 
format( thats up to Win 95)but it's getting a PC with a 8" drive in 
it to copy disks with Teledisk. Ebay would be the best place.. This 
software is a must by the way for anyone who has any sort of 
instrument which has libraries on floppies.  The other problem is 
that users with Series III can convert series I II IIx samples but 
Series I II IIx users can't use series III. However this may not be 
a problem. 
I have some samples on a cd that are .VC I will post one on the 
Forum's file page in a folder called VC's and if you or any member 
get them on to there series II IIx let me know.
Best regards
Colin
PS Please go to the Polls part of the forum and fill in the 2 Polls

> With the 6809 Assembler I'm not 100% with, could you email back 
with 
> some extra details.

I understood that a IIx is also supposed to work under OS9, but I 
only have the original QDOS. The service manual mentiones that there 
should be an 6809 assembler available, which usually was located on 
the diagnostics disk. I can't find it though and I'm wondering if 
anybody still has it on 8" floppy. (Or even a C compiler....) I want 
to try out programming the monster myself and experiment a bit to see 
if I can play around with filter settings etc. 
Also if this superflous port is available I want to try to get a PC 
connection working so that I don't need the 8" floppies anymore. 
Just hobbying though ;-)

Cheers,
Patrick