Fairlight Looping

Its been quite a while since I made a video so I just wanted to start back with something simple and just a bit of fun.
My Fairlight CMI Series III always seems to deliver something inetersting, so I fired it up and had a play with RS (Realtime Sequencer), setting a loop of 4 bars and just letting it record one track at a time. Nothing too serious, but great for creating ideas
Hope you are all doing well. Thanks for checking in!
Mike

[@TheDaydreamSound]

Sounds incredible!!!!!!

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks Yohance, there no instrument as useful and creative as a good sampler :D

[@roybatty2152]

Good to see you back. Great little looping piece.

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks man! It lived.... then it was erased, like tears in the rain :D

[@roybatty2152]

@@100ThingsIDo "I want more life, Father". "No, you can't have it."

[@colindavis8242]

Good to see you back at the helm😀😀😀

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks man :D

[@unadomandaperte]

So reminiscent of Kraftwerk KlingKlang's intro. In 1972, they ran a lot of tape loops at low speed to generate a similar result. ❤

[@100ThingsIDo]

One of my friends actually has the recording console from the early 80's from KingKlang studios :D

[@unadomandaperte]

@@100ThingsIDo Sweet. Does it still work?

[@100ThingsIDo]

It looks to be in very good condition and he is working towards installing it for on going use in his studio the last time he gave an update on it :D

[@kgbinfo]

Awesome! I would love to mess around on a Fairlight someday

[@100ThingsIDo]

It's a shame there are not more of them to go around! They really are great! :D

[@brettlemmings]

balinese jazz ! 🙌

[@100ThingsIDo]

I studied Barlinese music and Gamelan at school back in the day... I guess some of the influence came out :D

[@ChainsawCoffee]

@@100ThingsIDo I thought this sounded very much like Gamelan music! As this started off, I thought, "sounds like a slow Gamelan." Now you need to add the drums and flutes.

[@nativeVS]

Some fine mixed spice.

[@100ThingsIDo]

LOL! Sometimes you just have to rolll with it. Hope your doing well man, its been ages :D

[@dotted9689]

spicy 🌶

[@100ThingsIDo]

Yeh, that note snook in so it needed to be celebrated :D

[@videomove]

nice to see and hear you my friend and the fairlight sounds beautiful… the next time i’m down under you really have to show me. take care and all the best! ♥️✨

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks David, I hope everything is going well with you. Indeed, get to Melbourne soon man. I might even convince you to work on a track or two with me :D

[@videomove]

@@100ThingsIDo 🥰🤩

[@Biosynth]

creative on a rare beast. Congrats

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks man :D

Amazing sound! I had seen Pete's one in his studio, the Fairlight CMI, but I had never heard it working :)

[@100ThingsIDo]

Hey Lorenzo, Hope your doing well. I've tried to track it down through various contacts over the years to find out who has it now. I chatted to Thomas P. Heckmann a while back who had on of Pete's Fairlight secondary keyboard, which belonged to Klaus Schulze before Pete! I was very tempted to buy it from him :D

​@@100ThingsIDo I guess :) Maybe Atom might know

[@CrisBlyth]

nice video mate !

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks Man, hope things are good :D

[@elcasho]

new phone who dis!? Welcome back man!

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks man! Its indeed been a while :D

[@Ferlajt]

2:27 g-fresh

[@realjamesdean720]

Mixed spice... I see...😆

[@100ThingsIDo]

I didn't even realise how spicy that note was until I edited the video! :D haha!

[@auberginemachine567]

Really cool!!

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks man! :D

[@WesslansFilmprod]

I get "ambient Electro -Industrial" vibes from this tune. Amazing work, mate! Cheers Daniel, host and producer of Eat and Listen channel

[@100ThingsIDo]

Hey Daniel, how you been? Thanks man :D

[@MagnitudePerson]

Nah. reminds me more of Video Game music of the 90s

[@WesslansFilmprod]

Doing good. Thanks for asking. How are you, mate? Have started to expand my studio and have some great plans for it. I might also make more “Eat and Listen” stuff in the future. We shall see. Current studio rig: Akai s6000 with a “SL 73 studio” as it’s keys. Roland D-50 with PG-1000 Korg Wavestation EX Korg Minilogue XD (module) Novation X-station Novation Bass Station II Novation Summit Might also get me a MPC X SE with all new instruments it comes with. Have a good one. Cheers Daniel, host/producer of Eat and Listen channel

[@100ThingsIDo]

@@WesslansFilmprod Nice Setup! I love my S6000 :D

[@WesslansFilmprod]

Could never be without my s6000. It’s my studios centerpiece.

[@hamisho3360]

Nice one!

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks Hamisho :D

[@ianwinter7407]

Fab x

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks man :D

[@FLH3official]

Happy to see you back, Mr 100. Elektro-gamelan today? And it was fun to see you in @CrisBlyth last video👍

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks man!, I promised to catch up with Cris about 6 years ago when he said he was going to come to Australia to pick up a keyboard at some point. One of the most amazing 24 hours of not only meeting Cris in person finally but chatting to the Fairlight team about code, Eletronics, Cars, Music events and Fairlights :D

[@thealanholdingcompany]

👍

[@100ThingsIDo]

Hey Alan, hope things are good with you :D

[@thealanholdingcompany]

@@100ThingsIDo Fine, thanks. Thanks for video. Don’t know what magic filtering the Fairlight is doing to the low notes but they sound lovely. :)

[@100ThingsIDo]

@@thealanholdingcompany Funny you say that, I had a wonderful chat about 12 months ago with Ron Huby who designed the analog output stages, He advised that at first he made the sound as perfect as possible and then from there the sound was tuned by himself and the Fairlight team to taste. :D Indeed it alwats has quite a bit of 'Air' and Bottom to any sound you put into it

[@thealanholdingcompany]

@@100ThingsIDo Y’know, repeating that as an interview on here would be rather interesting indeed. :) Nudge wink no pressure how about it yeah? :)

[@100ThingsIDo]

@@thealanholdingcompany I think Cris Blyth has acual video of it :D

[@billtriangle2260]

Garden Fresh ?

[@davideocassette6312]

So subliminal... Was wondering why I suddenly have this inexplicable urge to make a curry.

[@100ThingsIDo]

Only the best and fresh spicy notes played here :D

[@100ThingsIDo]

hahah! Curry is always good... who needs a reason :D

[@Goettel]

2:40 ;)

[@100ThingsIDo]

hehehehe :D

[@morph-the-cat]

Where's the reverb coming from?

[@100ThingsIDo]

Valhalla Vintage Verb, its one of my 3 go to reverbs :D

[@morph-the-cat]

@@100ThingsIDo Thanks!!

[@vjrei]

It was good back in the day. Today is... But seeing it working is important.

[@100ThingsIDo]

I have to respectfully disagree, 16 individual outs, 44.1khz+ sample rates at 16bit, 32MB of sample ram, SCSI harddrive storage of samples. 2 inbuilt music sequencers, visual wave editing, dual analog filters with resonance on each voice... Its still a very powerful sampler... :D

[@vjrei]

@@100ThingsIDo Do you know what I think why still good? the interface. I used to have an Atari ST with marsters tracks pro, then a Powerbook with digital performer. When sequencers were blocks and shades of grades, everything as glorious. When Digital Performer started to add colors, I felt I got distracted. I liked the data in my brain where the equations are happening, not on the screen. Later on, I started to use Silicon Graphics and running Unix. It was so convenient doing everything via command code. That is why I feel music today is so poor, the instruments/ DAW are distracting. You do not need to see anything with your eyes, you need to see in your head.