Fairlight CMI Series I Audio Demo (1980)

Audio Demo from 1980.

[@keesrwel]

"The CMI can also be used as a general purpose computer". That's awesome.

[@LadyMoonstar6601]

The cool thing about this machine is you could literally create a whole video game or sci-fi film soundtrack with no need for additional instruments, what a beast.

[@aquamidideluxe5079]

26:44 VERY video game-y (before video games had music like this yet!) and very cool.

[@nico_nunn]

Best Sampler Ever

[@cassettedisco6954]

Esto es historia pura gracias infinitas desde México 🇲🇽❤️!! I ❤️ fairlight

[@amrkoptan4041]

This is sweet, the actual CMI reminds me of nowadays fruity loops software

[@NuGanjaTron]

5:02 "Dith ith duh way... we thin.........thuh... thithe?" Brilliant! :^D 6:18 Gives me seizures... Great demo, what a blast!

[@iLikeTheUDK]

lol there's only so much you can do with a sampling frequency of 8 kHz (leaving an actual Nyquist frequency of 4), and up to 24 kHz but only if you were willing to make your sound extremely short fortunately the next one could sample at up to 32 kHz, and the one after at 41 kHz, with the latter's sample memory being increased almost 1024 times making it more practical to use higher quality samples

[@Beephouse]

33:35 cool song!

[@jensj.jensen5462]

I hear Pet Shop Boys and The Art of Noise

[@RobertoGinsburg]

Jens J. Jensen but Pet Shop Boys (like Depeche Mode) was using Emulator. Art Of Noise, Peter Gabriel, Heaven 17, The Cars..they jammin with Fairlight.

[@vco8450]

PSB used both

[@Fehlfarbenblind]

@@vco8450 Yes West end Girls were on the Fairlight

[@mrtibbs5543]

i hear peter gabriel and thomas dolby :)

[@iLikeTheUDK]

I also heard a bunch of sounds that Kate Bush used

[@pepinillosazucarados6743]

The bells in the begining can be heard in the 1989 intro of disintegration from the cure !!!

[@williamsterben]

I hear the Orb.

[@spektrum8740]

No ZooLook ?

[@michaelstram]

Computer Chronicles theme!

[@peeledapple]

who is the composer? this shit is sick!!!

[@lucmartin6611]

interesting...

[@RobertoGinsburg]

Who is the musician at the 1:42 ??

[@schmittwilli]

Boris Blank from Yello

[@mooogg]

@@schmittwilli Boris Blank is 1 of my biggest musical heros :-)

[@janrehak5287]

jo vidíte wave table a spectrctral synthesis a analyze - jo wavetable stačí vidět v rámci 2d zobrazení ale u spectral synthesys a analyze byla jiná logika v té době to vidíte i u wavelabu

[@SCARLETANDREDS]

Sounds like SNES...

[@meroinheroin]

Way better than SNES

[@cnfuzz]

Apart from art of noise and maybe yello pretty much all fairlight based records were kinda dire , it was more a novelty waiting to mature before it became acceptable in audio terms, by the time cmi 3 came out they were phased out of the market because of better japanese ( at least price- performance) systems

[@rclarkebeckett603]

Tell that to Jarre, Mike Oldfield, Peter Gabriel, The eurythmics, etc etc etc

[@cnfuzz]

@@rclarkebeckett603 eurythmics used emu and synclav not cmi to my knowledge

[@rclarkebeckett603]

@@cnfuzz well your knowledge is flawed then.

[@cnfuzz]

@@rclarkebeckett603 no yours is , eurythmics programmer was olle romo who worked exclusively with synclav , the sampler used for eurythmics 1984 was a emulator one followed by an emu two for ' be yourself tonight' here you can read en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_(Eurythmics_album)

[@cnfuzz]

@@rclarkebeckett603 here you go mister knowall dave from eurythmics '"I've never used a Fairlight. You see, a lot of the things people use them for I wouldn't want to repeat, so what's the point in storing it? You don't have breaking glass on every track, so I just actually break the glass - I wouldn't bother to sample it. Most people do that so that they can repeat what they've been doing live, but we always completely re-arrange what we're doing anyway. That makes it more exciting because otherwise you'd have eight people behind keyboards, whereas we're more like the Bruce Springsteen band live." the interview can be read here www.muzines.co.uk/articles/eurythmically-speaking/3920