I've just been reading @PaulaMaddox account of fixing a Fairlight CMI a few years back. An excellent series - well worth a read and how cool is that to have an actual play with one!

(have you seen the videos from Roger Bolton? If not, they are great)

https://www.maddox.pro/?cat=7

#FairlightCMI

I'm going to go out on a limb here and contend that the Fairlight CMI *is* responsible for a lot of the cleanest production technique in the 1980s, but it's not because the Fairlight CMI (the Series II, in particular) was so good—it's because the thing sounded so inherently crappy that good producers and studio engineers often became great producers and studio engineers in the process of figuring out how to make a muddy, blurry sound into something lovely.

#fairlightCMI #audioengineering

We had the honor of inspecting, tearing down, and cleaning up a Fairlight CMI! Someone in Colorado happened to find one for sale in Greensboro, and we were the local intermediary to help it safely along its journey. Unfortunately we weren't able to locate an appropriate monitor to actually get it up and usable, but based on our exam of the innards and brief testing, we believe it's all working, including the 8" floppy drives!

#fairlight #fairlightcmi #vintagesynth

The emancipating power of samplers & sequencers in the work of Kate Bush during the early-to-mid 80s - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77rUKjwoAQ0 The emancipating power of samplers & sequencers in the work of Kate Bush during the early-to-mid 80s

#musicproduction #KateBush #fairlightcmi