I'm Building a Fairlight CMI: Episode 18

Cris Blyth is a brave man. He has a dream of taking a Fairlight MFX and upgrading it to a Fairlight CMI Series III. In this episode, Cris gets some goodies in the mail, and then installs some cards in order to add more voices. It all goes like clockwork. (Nope - it's the usual mayhem and madness.)
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[@kevinhartnell2075]

Yet another fascinating episode in this great adventure. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride, Cris!

[@dragonheadthing]

What a neat sound at 37:00 ! Glad to see great progress in each video!

[@CrisBlyth]

yeah That sound was a one-off ! The machine made that sound as it was powering down... clearly something wasn't right but yeah.. amazing !

[@PORRFNK]

Very impressed by his work

[@haidar6280]

This fairlight will be finished when cows come home

[@CrisBlyth]

Yeah, the whole 'life' thing really does get in the way ! I simply need to edit faster at this stage though....

[@robertmoss556]

That was epic, I think I'm just invested in your story. Keep going.

[@bangprints8816]

Who knows it, definitely feels it. Process of elimination 💯 Very interested in the upcoming ❤

[@ToTheGAMES]

Wooo! I was wondering how the project went! Like you read my mind a new episode drops. Love the series!

[@mattrixx_audio]

This is awesome mate. When you're referring to Peter, is that Peter Vogel ??? I love your tenacity in this process. It's fantastic!!

[@corticallarvae]

This is an awesome project, talk about ambition

[@andyedensor9621]

Thank you 🙂 been a while

[@Jonas_Keunecke]

Very exciting episode, almost everything confirmed to be working by the end!

[@brettw7]

Bro! I’ve been following this forever! Please, one video a month or so, I’m dying.

[@CrisBlyth]

i’ll try my best too !

[@Rehbet]

37:00 The Sound

[@CrisBlyth]

It was bonkers !!

[@daz4627]

Welcome back Cris ... another excellent chapter to the CMI story ... this is epic ... once all of this is done and dusted, you have to make a CMI playlist with ALL of your videos (in order) so that we can binge-watch this series... PS: I've been hooked on Fairlights since they came out in 1979 and even have the brochure and other promo blub that Fairlight mailed to me way back when.

[@6581punk]

For the back panels, I was wondering if painting them black first, then white would mean the lasering would expose the black paint underneath, then not need touching up.

[@CrisBlyth]

y’know that is a technique that is a known thing and I think I should give it a go next time!

[@6581punk]

@@CrisBlyth Also means no metal exposed to the elements, so no rusting.

[@jan-dr1xl]

A tip from someone who's fitted 100's of xlrs in panels,chuck the hole saw away and invest in some q punches.

[@CrisBlyth]

I must now go and find out what a Q punch is :)

[@soundadapter]

It's Christmas already today 🎅 thank you for this wonderful work 👍

[@CorM58]

I have to admit that I've missed you. Wonderful story again!

[@PeterTechn]

Welcome back 😊

[@valentinabestbest290]

YES ❤

[@Soren_Marodoren]

Yes, you are back. I was wondering what you were, earlier today...

[@NicotineNerves]

yes!

[@stickman393]

Dude you HAVE to figure out your backplane problems

[@CrisBlyth]

Yup… the only thing is to replace all the connectors on the backplane.. BUUUT the issue is finding the right thickness and also not screwing it up :)

[@marcpinion]

So close

[@mCKENIC]

Mate, you might wanna blur your address on the unboxing section... Thanks for the episode!!!

[@CrisBlyth]

If #BlackMagicDesign or #Lamborghini want to send me anything then I’m ok with it :)

[@bonno666]

Wonderfull project. I'm a bit confused. Is this channel related to the synth shop syntaur?

[@CrisBlyth]

yes, the whole thing wasn’t thought out well, which is my bad. I started with them on my channel and the Syntaur thought they might to better on theirs also. So, we put new episodes on Syntaur first and then on mine usually a few days later

[@bonno666]

@@CrisBlyth Thank you, it's still funny to see how this is going to work. Hopefully. Greetings from me from the netherlands.

[@miiclarky]

did you put the audio only in the left channel at the beginning and the end of the video on purpose?

[@CrisBlyth]

sadly it was a Resolve issue… first episode fully done in Resolve.. some errors

[@miiclarky]

was the audio in the public sections messed up on purpose?

[@CrisBlyth]

sadly, no.. it’s a bug in Resolve.. don’t use any of the ‘voice isolation’ or ‘dialogue cleanup’ tools… arrrggggg

[@dav1dbone]

Out of interest, wondering if you have any plans on what you plan on doing with the CMI once completed?

[@CrisBlyth]

oh, I've already used it ! If you've heard music in 'Tetris' (Apple +) then you've probably heard this machine at one point.

[@dav1dbone]

@@CrisBlyth love that movie, you're keeping it then, brill 😺