Fairlight CMI IIX original pet shop boys page R sequence

Fairlight CMI IIX original pet shop boys page R sequence

[@TurkishSuperGuy]

This was my childhood dream owning this piece of equipment, i remember showing my dad the review in 1981 i wanted one so badly i cried for days. I became a musician by carving my first instrument out of a willow tree, They were the best years of my life.

[@MrMikomi]

All downhill from there lol

[@Chevroletcelebrity]

get an s50 and just be content

[@williambrasky3891]

Yea, if Dad sold the house to buy you one, things may have turned out very differently. Then again, assuming it never rained, probably would've been a solid investment opportunity.

[@MKVideoful]

Maybe if you wait like 8 years and got some money, you could buy "affordable" Amiga with DAC audio output, and sampler tracker of course.

[@astrazenica7783]

I can't be the only one who's first exposure to unapologetically electronic, synthesised pop music was the Petshop boys. New Order seem to get all the votes but Petshop boys were straight electronic, keyboard, synth from the start. In a mainstream pop outfit. They didn't present themselves alongside a fake band, fake guitars, etc. They weren't searching for instrument realism, a band on the cheap. They had their own recognisable sound. I had forgotten how much they influenced me until I listened to the Actually album again

[@JammyGit]

I guess it depends on how old you are mate. Me, I remember early 80s synth music by the likes of Depeche Mode & Yazoo etc but didn't really like it. Pet Shop Boys appeared when I was 16 with west end girls, then grew enormously in the following 2 years up until always on my mind topped the Xmas charts, and I immediately liked them. Probably because I was more of an intellectually introspective introvert loner type of character, and also they made songs and albums that I thought were good at the time. I kinda drifted away from their music at 21, Behaviour was the last record I bought, and enjoyed, then I got into New Order, then indie, then older rock & blues type stuff and forgot about the Pet Shop Boys....but nowadays as a guitarist I've found myself arranging the songs of theirs that I liked back then and playing them in more of a rockier style, which I'm finding very enjoyable.

[@dedpxl]

I had the rare opportunity of not being aware of them until years into my adulthood. Grew up with New Order and other 80's music but discovered PSB pretty late, really a privilege to re-live the music and such an extensive back catalogue.

[@brody5211]

dedpxl interesting , what a back catalogue

[@whatamalike]

I think new order get more of a rep cos they actually had no qualms about doing any of this live (even to their detriment in some cases!) Psb, as good as they were, seldom performed live until the 90s and even then emphasis was put more on the theatrics than the actual musical output.

[@productreed]

The Fairlight is by far the most beautiful sounding vintage "synthesizer" ever made. Lucky you.

[@jaggass]

It has all sort of samples. The bass is off a DX7, strings Emu-II+, drums percussion, Linndrum, TR-808 etc.

[@PETSH0PB0YS1]

Awesome Piece of Kit.!!! Thanks for upload...

[@sirfrankiecrisp6077]

I can programme a computer...Choose the perfect time...

[@lanswipe]

If you've got the inclination, I have got the crime

[@caledoniatardivo8537]

+lanswipe I love how you completed the line to that lyric! :D :D

[@QuentinRichardsthe2012brony]

@@caledoniatardivo8537 I love how you completed the line to that lyric! :D :D

[@zoomkitty]

I've got the brains you've got the looks

[@PabloDeMode]

Amazing thing! I purchased the vst model "darklight" and I'm happy with it, however nothing beats the real thing.

[@mrdisco8721]

AMAZING!!! 😱😱😱

[@robgs]

brilliant, and only 8 tracks too.

[@kirkrogers4937]

Anyone know if the samples used for this were included on the fairlight disks or if they constructed specifically for the song?

[@LFOVCF]

I can hear him singing it

[@DegsyDoLittle]

Back then they couldn't afford one it was my Iix used to program and record the parts and most done in my studio initially I also played and created the piano parts...

[@PMCRetroGamer]

how was the infamous what i would call hammer noise on every beat done. im guessing it was a similar process as depeche mode did with recording various noises

[@PMCRetroGamer]

its under the blip category that i was taking about

[@JohnH108]

Hi Blue Weaver, I purchased a Series III from Ross Cullum and Chris Hughes about 13 years ago. (not working though I had to get it repaired by a genius in Reading) It was one that had been modified and built Into a cabinet on wheels by Peter Wielk. Anyway long Story short. The very thick operators manual it came with has your name written on it in a black Marker pen. Just wondering if you know anything about the history of this particular Fairlight?

[@fritzlang7941]

Are you serious ??

[@HipixOFFICIAL]

@@fritzlang7941 yes! That's blue weaver!

[@Danimal1577]

Wow. How did you get all this amazing vintage equipment?!

[@GinoDiCarlo]

That is sweet!!!!!

[@Polysixchick]

Nice!

[@B1SCOOP]

That's some hardcore kick drum.

[@djcoreystuart]

I have an extensive library of the sounds this thing used, unfortunately I can't seem to find them so I can transfer this to Reason 4 or Logic. What is the mallet/metal hit and snare used??

[@SJPERCY74]

love this

[@Dirtyeggify]

This is incredible. Do you have any ofher PSB songs programmed on it?

[@JammyGit]

I've got the brains, you've got the looks.... Let's make lots of money. You've got the brawn, I've got the brains, Let's make lots of........

[@diabelez]

cool to watch this old tech in action. way back... things were so weird :) the sequencer looks pretty simple and easy. today they even more simple but can do much more. easy to use. as always. or this old stuff was hard ? LOL

[@Hot80s]

find a CMI & you'll make lots of money!

[@AdamG1983]

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!

[@Firthy2002]

Awesome! So was the disk already in the machine?

[@1975MAICO1975]

I THOUGHT THEY USED A D 50 OR AN M1 ... THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO !!!

[@SRDhain]

They got a good advance from EMI/PARLOPHONE perhaps, for the first album? Or maybe the one we heard on the album belonged to stephen hague, who produced the first album.

[@martinmidgley7544]

No sir. They belonged to Blue Weaver. They used two for this particular track when they performed it on The Old Grey Whistle Test.

[@SRDhain]

@@martinmidgley7544 Ah. I've seen the other clip and it all ties together. Thanks for the info.

[@Whitelight786]

Nice.

[@bungalowbill177]

"Of course it's all on tape, but no one will find out..!"

[@JohnH108]

Nice

[@LittleRichard1988]

That snare sounds like the Roland R8 snare, the tambourine also sounds Roland-like. Maybe Roland took some of sounds from Fairlight, I know the Sara voice and Rhodes piano came from Fairlight.

[@turntableman100]

It's very Amigaish music wow 😁

[@CALJ154]

...And the opening is the Roland CR78

[@frankieseverin1157]

" blip " is that some kinda cowbell ?

[@markorendas1790]

ABLETON GREAT GRANDPARENTS

[@kevinsturges6957]

What is the name of the song?

[@tonykara]

Let make lots of money!!

[@sofadviolator]

They spent it all on the fairlight lol

[@bobfunk5055]

I threw one of these in the skip in 2004, don't hate me.

[@KieronEdwards]

Great piece of video. Searching through the Vogel CMI app on the iPad the lower four samples are missing - particularly BLIP which is the most distinctive sample of the piece I think. Are these PSB specific sounds?

[@martinmidgley7544]

They used 2 Fairlights on that piece. You can see that if you watch their performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test.

[@cappaculla]

The Fairlight was a sampler, there will be unique sounds in most of the recordings

[@funnier2618]

Where can I find a VST of those hi-hats?

[@anguerandelamouliniere3070]

Funnier 26 There is no VST able to reproduce the sound of the CMI. Playing any samples from this venerable machine on a software sampler sounds awful and flat. Stop thinking that VST can do anything and everything.

[@funnier2618]

Angueran DeLaMouliniere These are 8-bit machines, so what you're saying is that a 24-bit VST is somehow going to ruin an 8-bit sound? What happens between the numbers, stays between the numbers.

[@anguerandelamouliniere3070]

Do you know what is an ANALOG filter? Nothing to see with bits, man

[@Zesserie]

You can emulate anything, you can sample everything. If its something i've learneded all the years i've produced music is that anything is possible to do with enough computing power even analog...

[@anguerandelamouliniere3070]

Victor Hansson Wrong and wrong. Learn the basics of signal processing. There is NO exact emulation of an analog filter in digital domain. Just look how many people are claiming every year that they finally made an exact model of Moog filter... saying next year that the new emulation is even better. Most people who played a VST version of Minimoog, Jupiter or Prophet never heard the analog version, but they believe what vendors are saying. That does not mean that analog sound is better than digital sound, or vice versa, but they sound different. Period.

[@AdjustableSquelch]

there's one on the ipad petervogelinstruments com au / ios

[@AntonisKosmopoulos]

Why is the plant moving??!

[@synthtools]

Can you post an other Video with every single sound, please? Should not be too much of work ... ;-)

[@AdjustableSquelch]

can somebody tell me how these two people with no track record could afford the £30k needed for a CMI? i mean back in the day, £30k would buy you a four bedroom house in a nice part of my southern town with 100 foot back garden...

[@martinmidgley7544]

They couldn't, but the record company could afford to hire the hardware and know how.

[@Esplodiamoinallegria]

Easy, they went into a very well-equipped studio

[@cappaculla]

@@martinmidgley7544 Was owned by Blue Weaver

[@robertsteinberger5667]

I do see the vintage charm but I wonder how could it have been used in so many music productions in the 80s when the sound quality is a bit bad...........

[@80ssynthfan48]

There would have been reverb, compression, and other effects to make the raw sound into the final product.

[@Chevytravelleruk]

Shame it's recorded so appallingly

[@rob8761]

Sounds absolutely hideous