Fairlight-CMI

Hi all,

It's been a little quiet on here lately, so thought I'd throw in a few questions that will "keep the kettle boiling", so to speak.

Firstly, if when I LOAD a sound and an error message appears saying "END OF FILE", does this mean these files are corrupt? I tried QUERYing them and they have no information for them and seem to be only 1k in size.

Secondly, As the Fairlight III has a sample rate of 96khz (or is it 100?) I assume I would need a mic with a frequency response to match this. What sort of mic would be ideal?

Lastly, I've seen a Fairlight III advertised somewhere (can't remember where) and the advertiser stated that this particular one was manufactured directly from Fairlight (Sydney) in 2000/2001. Do/did they still manufacture these to order? If so, were/are the parts identical?

Ok, this should be enough for now.

Hope you are all well and ok.

Kind regards,
Peter

Hello Peter,

> Firstly, if when I LOAD a sound and an error message appears saying "END
> OF FILE", does this mean these files are corrupt?

Sounds like it...
Do you still have any space left on your device ?

> Secondly, As the Fairlight III has a sample rate of 96khz (or is it 100?)
> I assume I would need a mic with a frequency response to match this. What
> sort of mic would be ideal?

A condenser microphone would be best I guess, because of its smaller
membrane. However, at http://www.avisoft-saslab.com/usg/mics.htm you can
find more info on untrasound microphones.

> Lastly, I've seen a Fairlight III advertised somewhere (can't remember
> where)

Ebay ? Nathan Kirchner ?

>and the advertiser stated that this particular one was manufactured
> directly from Fairlight (Sydney) in 2000/2001. Do/did they still
> manufacture these to order? If so, were/are the parts identical?

> Hope you are all well and ok.

I am, thank you :)