Fairlight-CMI

Hi everyone,

Take a look here...

http://www.musiccontrol.co.uk/musiccontrolstoc.html

There's a CMI IIx on there stock list at the moment.

Does anyone have any of the old tapes from the magazine Electronic 
Soundmaker published in the U.K. during the 80's. I have a few, but 
would love to hear some of the other ones. I think they give a 
really good snapshot of the equipment available during this period.

> Take a look here...
> 
> http://www.musiccontrol.co.uk/musiccontrolstoc.html
> 
> There's a CMI IIx on there stock list at the moment.

Erm, I suspect this is mine :-)  I bought a Polyfusion modular from
Chris last week and he's advertising a few bits and pieces of mine
that I don't need any more (I offered them for p/x but they didn't
want to buy a CMI in) - I plan on posting the details of the CMI II
and CMI III I have for sale later - but if anyone is interested, feel
free to drop me a mail off list.

Briefly there's a good condition and fully working CMI II with black
keyboard and a very good condition CMI III with tape drive with 16Mb
and 9.14 (ISTR), hard drive and floppy - five tapes included. Buyer is
welcome to have their choice of copies of 10 of my CMI II disc library
of around 150 discs (including the original Fairlight CMI II library)
in the detail - if you want more discs then provided you're prepared
to buy the floppies and spend the time copying them here - you're
welcome to copy the lot :-)


> Does anyone have any of the old tapes from the magazine Electronic 
> Soundmaker published in the U.K. during the 80's. I have a few, but 
> would love to hear some of the other ones. I think they give a 
> really good snapshot of the equipment available during this period.


YES!  How cool that someone else remembers these :-)  I was given a CD
by a friend of mine (I'll email him to find out where he got it and
post it back here) produced by someone with *all* of the tapes on -
great listening - it took me back 20 years to when I would sit on the
top deck of the No. 47 bus to work, listening to these tapes on my
Walkman, dreaming I could actually afford a subscription to the
magazine - let alone any of the gear they featured! :-D  

The crappy adverts for the 'London Rock Shop' (or should that be
'Rondon Rock shop'!) have to be heard to be believed! hehe

Philip

> YES!  How cool that someone else remembers these :-)  I was given a 
CD
> by a friend of mine (I'll email him to find out where he got it and
> post it back here) produced by someone with *all* of the tapes on -
> great listening - it took me back 20 years to when I would sit on 

I'd be interested to know who gave you the CD as (I believe) it was 
me who compiled the CD.  As you can imagine I spent tens of hours 
recording and denoising the tapes and doing the artwork.  I have only 
given them out to 5 people, an Northern Irishman, an Englishman, a 
German, a Swede and an American.

As you may know (especially if you search the archive) I made the 
Vince Clarke Fairlight demonstration available.  These messages 
threads start at message number 153 and message 186.

Anyway here's the sales pitch.....

Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music CD

I have mp3ed and cleaned up ALL the ES and CM cassettes with cassette 
inlay scans and put them on to a CD - all 12 hours worth! There's 
some classic stuff in there including Vince Clarke demonstrating his 
Fairlight, readers demos, classic intruments/drum machines/sequencers 
as well as featured artists.

There is 640MB of data with the mp3s encoded at 128kbit constant bit 
rate. The cassette source has been hiss and noise reduced with added 
brilliance to bring the highs out again using Steinberg's Clean!. The 
mp3 links in this email are cut from this impressive selection to 
give you an indication of quality.

The instruments include the Kurzweil 250, Rhodes Chroma Polaris, 
Drumulator new chips, Bit One Poly, Simmons drums, Greengate DS3, 
Korg EX800, Casio CZ101, Emulator II, Roland TR707, Digisound 
Modular, Drumtraks, Synclavier, Roland JX8P, Ensoniq Mirage, Yamaha 
DX5, Linn 9000, Siel DK80, Oberheim Matrix 12, Casio CZ5000, Yamaha 
QX-1, TX816, PPG system and updates plus more.

The feature artists include Tangerine Dream, Mainframe, Vince Clarke, 
Mark Shreeve, Ian Boddy, Neuronium, Kissing the Pink, Cocteau Twins, 
Gary Numan, Mark Jenkins, Heaven 17, Eurythmics/Cris and Cosey.

The more people who have this CD, the more this period of history is 
preserved.  I know you'd appreciate it - just don't sell it on eBay 
or anything.

I'm based in the UK and I'll have to charge a small handling fee of 
£1.99 for each CD plus £1 post and packaging in the UK obviously a 
bit more if overseas but not much.  Or if YOU have made an 
interesting CD of YOUR music then send me that CD and I'll send you 
this in return!

Email me off list if interested.  I can take other forms of "payment" 
too.

Many thanks

Chris Strellis

synthasy2000@yahoo.co.uk

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Strellis"  
> I'd be interested to know who gave you the CD as (I believe) it was 
> me who compiled the CD.

<snip> 

> I have only given them out to 5 people, an Northern Irishman, an 
> Englishman, a German, a Swede and an American.


As we've discussed off list - it was the Englishman ;-)


> Anyway here's the sales pitch.....
<snip>
> I'm based in the UK and I'll have to charge a small handling fee of 
> £1.99 for each CD plus £1 post and packaging

Not meaning to do to strong a sales pitch for you - but it's WELL
worth the tiny price Chris is asking - for the Fairlight demos alone!

The cheapest time machine I know!  :-)

Philip