Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

The big difference comes in the Fairlights (I'm talking up until IIx)  
sonic sound quality !
Yes it's 8bit, but the best you could ever get in this direction, the  
dynamics and the uniqueness of it still blows me away !
I own both a Fairlight IIx and a Simmons SDX and they are really hard  
to compare. And I own a tickle me Elmo also ;-)
One thing about the SDX - if it wasn't mentioned before - SAVE SAVE  
SAVE ;-)
I had many hours of sampling with the machine just to realize it hang  
up and all was gone...
Best
Thomas


On Dec 12, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Patrice Jacquot wrote:

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> On the paper from far I see what you mean... (not better than an 8
> bits soundblaster I suppose ?)
> but in the mixer ?
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> Have you ever used one ?
> opened one ?
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> Le 12 déc. 08 à 10:44, Gordon Pearce a écrit :
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>> Uhm, the Fairlight was a *terrible* sampler, long surpassed by the
>> sampling capabilities of musical greetings cards and Tickle Me Elmo.
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Thomas P. Heckmann
Trope Recordings - AFU limited - AFULAB





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