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	Science Fair Projects - Fairlight CMI
		The Fairlight was a development of an earlier synthesiser called the Qasar M8, an attempt to create sound by modelling all of the parameters of a waveform in real time.
		By 1979, the Fairlight CMI series 1 was being demonstrated, but the sound quality was not quite up to professional standards, having only 24kHz sampling, and it wasn't until the series 2 of 1982 that this was rectified.
		Fairlight went bankrupt a few years later owing to the expense of building the instruments — AUD$20,000 in components per unit.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Fairlight_CMI (0 words)

	Fairlight The Whole Story
		One of the CMI's biggest problems was the short time span of the samples, averaging between a half and a whole second, depending on the sample rate used.
		Fairlight kept developing their CMI Series II, one of the main upgrades being the IIX, which introduced MIDI, and in 1985, they made another giant leap forward with a completely redesigned CMI, the Series III.
		With the same resourcefulness and determination that had led them to invent the CMI and turn it into one of the world's most successful musical instruments, they stuck to their guns and financed the RandD department out of their own pockets, whilst they were looking for new financiers.
	www.anerd.com /fairlight/fairlightstory.htm (0 words)

	Fairlight CMI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By 1979, the Fairlight CMI Series I was being demonstrated, but the sound quality was not quite up to professional standards, having only 24kHz sampling, and it wasn't until the Series II of 1982 that this was rectified.
		The Fairlight ran its own operating system known as QDOS (was a modified version of the Motorola MDOS operating system) and had a primitive (by modern standards) menu-driven GUI.
		Fairlight managed to survive until the mid-1980s, mainly bidding on its legendary name and its cult status, sought after by those that could afford its prices.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fairlight_CMI (1134 words)

	THE FUN OF THE FAIRLIGHT
		The Fairlight CMI is a keyboard that most of us have probably never even seen, let alone played, yet it was one of the most prominent synths of the early- and mid-'80s and set the agenda for the way 'ordinary' synths would later develop.
		By today's standards, the Fairlight CMI (1980-1982) was fairly crude, and it was superseded by the more common Series II (1982-1983).
		Fairlights can, unsurprisingly, be had these days for a fraction of their new price.
	www.soundonsound.com /sos/apr99/articles/fairlight.htm (0 words)

	Fairlight Computer Keyboard
		The CMI is one of the new breed of keyboards that has all its sounds, functions and actions controlled by computer.
		Far steadier and easier on the eye than the average home computer-cum-TV-set job and it came with a light pen, not the opposite of a heavy biro, but a sort of programmer's scalpel that can be held against the screen telling the computer that this is the bit of the display you want to alter.
		While on the point, the CMI is eight-note polyphonic, though there are plans to increase that to 16 when the appropriate software arrives.
	comp_sounds.tripod.com /fairlight.html (0 words)

	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, Alabama (AL)
		The Fairlight CMI was a development of an earlier synthesiser called the Quasar M8, an attempt to create sound by modelling all of the parameters of a waveform in real time.
		By 1979, the Fairlight CMI Series I was being demonstrated, but the sound quality was not quite up to professional standards, having only 24kHz sampling, and it wasn't until the Series II of 1982 that this was rectified.
		The Fairlight ran its own operating system known as QDOS (was a modified version of the Motorola MDOS operating system) and had a primitive (by modern standards) menu-driven GUI.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Fairlight_CMI (0 words)

	Halfbakery: Fairlight CMI for Nintendo DS
		Fairlight CMI for Nintendo DS That sampling synthesizer from the 80s on your NDS.
		The CMI III (the decent one) didn't use a light pen by then.
		Ironically, the much cheaper and quite potentially novel Fairlight CVI (video instrument, but not necessarily digital) didn't see much further development as it was at this juncture that Fairlight went under.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Fairlight_20CMI_20for_20Nintendo_20DS (489 words)

	The Fairlight CMI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Fairlight was designed by two Australian engineers, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie who had already established the Fairlight company manufacturing and selling video special effects boxes.
		The Fairlight CMI was the first commercially available digital sampling instrument, instead of generating sounds from mathematical wave data, the sampler digitises sounds from an external audio source via an analogue to digital convertor for re-synthesis or processing.
		The Fairlight was equiped with two six octave keyboards an alphanumeric keyboard and an interactive VDU where sounds could be edited or drawn on the screen using a light pen.
	www.keyboardmuseum.org /pre60/1970/fairlight.html (0 words)

	Welcome To The Fairlight AU News Archive
		Celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2005, Fairlight was an original pioneer of digital audio in 1975 and since then has led the world in some of the most exciting and significant developments of audio and video technology.
		These advances changed the landscape of music, film and television: first the Fairlight CMI powered popular music in the early to mid-eighties which was followed by the emergence of digital sound-effects for film that used Fairlight’s digital sampling and MFX platforms.
		In both 2000 and 2003 Fairlight was awarded The Academy Plaque for Scientific and Technical achievement in recognition of its contribution to film.
	www.fairlightau.com /Archive_Site/2005au5.html (0 words)

	Hitsquad Music Software Discussion :: View topic - Fairlight CMI keyboard to be auctioned off for charity...
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		The Fairlight CMI was the world’s first digital sampler and featured other radical advances for the time, including a light pen interface and menu-driven GUI.
		The CMI hit the height of its popular frenzy among the artist community when it was featured in a now-legendary performance by Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Thomas Dolby and Howard Jones at the 1985 Grammy Awards.
	www.hitsquad.com /vocal/archive/o_t__t_2767__fairlight-cmi-keyboard-to-be-auctioned-off-for-charity....html (0 words)

	Retro Thing: Fairlight CMI - A Musical Revolution
		But the Fairlight had other more influential tricks up its sleeve: it was the first digital sampling instrument, capable of recording snippets of real sound and playing them back at different speeds.
		By 1982, an upgraded Fairlight Series II offered better sound and included a graphic sequencing program called Page R. It became possible for musicians and sound designers to quickly program complex musical pieces, and all of a sudden the Fairlight Sound was everywhere.
		Fairlight went on to introduce the CMI Series III in 1985.
	www.retrothing.com /2005/09/fairlight_cmi_a.html (0 words)

	Welcome To The Fairlight AU News Archive
		Fairlight developed the CMI in 1978, which was used extensively by all the innovative artists participating in the auction.
		Fairlight was an original pioneer of digital audio and in 1978 developed the world’s first digital synthesizer, the Fairlight CMI.
		Fairlight's MediaHub networking strategy provides solutions for audio and video networking enabling real-time, multi-node access to high-speed audio database sharing as well as sustained bandwidth streaming of video to Fairlight’s Pyxis NLV system and elegant media management solutions.
	www.fairlightau.com /Archive_Site/2006au2.html (0 words)

	A Note for the Fairlight - Battlefield Earth - Musical Director - L. Ron Hubbard: Ron, The Music Maker
		Originally conceived as a novelty and rarely seen beyond experimental laboratories/trade shows, the Fairlight CMI had been generally regarded as a “studio in a box.” For suddenly one could digitally record or “sample” any sound and present those sounds through a keyboard as notes.
		In the beginning, however, talk of the CMI was mostly limited to the sampling of musical instruments, (and thus the possibility of a future without live performances or even studio musicians).
		To determine just how much further music might be spread, his Fairlight was soon transforming a whole array of improbable sounds into musical samples: the thud of rocks, the buzz of drills, the clang of a hoist bucket, the tinkle of bottles and rustling leaves.
	www.ronthemusicmaker.org /fair.htm (0 words)

	Cmi Paintball -- Recommendations and Resources
		CMIS defines a message set (GET, CANCEL-GET, SET, CREATE, DELETE, EVENT-REPORT and ACTION), and the structure and content of the messages such that they might be used by "open" systems.
		The Fairlight sound was a development of an earlier synthesiser called the Quasar M8, an attempt to create sound by modelling all of the parameters of a waveform in real time.
		As I understand it, while the Fairlight II had somewhat better sound than the Fairlight I, it wasn't until the series III that the Fairlight had really good sound.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/33/cmi-paintball.html (1090 words)

	Fairlight CMI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Der Fairlight wurde von den beiden Australiern Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie Ende der 1970er Jahre entworfen und erlangte insbesondere in den 1980er Jahre Berühmtheit.
		Vorläufer des Fairlight CMI war der Qasar M8, dessen Klangsynthese auf einer Echtzeitmodulation von Wellenformen beruhte.
		Der letzte Fairlight CMI III wurde 1991 gebaut.
	www.biologie.de /biowiki/Fairlight_CMI (0 words)

	Sonic State - News Fairlight Signed By 44 Pop Stars On Ebay, Get it for Christmas and support WITNESS charity if you ...
		Fairlight has donated a vintage CMI (Computer Music Instrument) keyboard and arranged to have all 43 keys plus the chassis autographed by the artists that made the instrument the most important development in music in the Eighties.
		Commenting on the auction, Fairlight Chief Executive John Lancken said today, “Bringing together the artists and the instrument that turned music on its head back in the Eighties is a fascinating exercise in the history of music, but to do it with WITNESS to support peace and human rights around the world is especially gratifying.
		The autographed keys were each returned to Fairlight in Sydney and the keyboard was recently reassembled and shipped to New York, where it will go on display at a VIP reception before the auction.
	www.sonicstate.com /news/shownews.cfm?newsid=3864 (0 words)

	Fairlight CMI
		The first buyers of the new system were Peter Gabriel and Stevie Wonder, and the first commercially released song to use it was Gabriel's Shock the Monkey in September 1982 (although this is debated because it also found use on Kate Bush's The Dreaming).
		The Fairlight ran its own operating system, a version of QDOS, and had a GUI, of sorts.
		In the United States, a new Sampler company called Ensoniq introduced the Ensoniq Mirage in 1985, at a price that made sampling affordable for the first time to the average Joe musician.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Fairlight_CMI (0 words)

	scenario
		al di meola, roland guitar synthesizer • jan hammer, keyboards, fairlight cmi, moog bass, linn and roland drum
		al di meola, electric guitar • jan hammer, keyboards, fairlight cmi, linn and roland drum
		al di meola, electric guitar, roland guitar synthesizer, fairlight cmi sax and syn flute, drums • jan hammer, keyboards, fairlight cmi, moog bass, linn drum
	sozluk.sourtimes.org /show.asp?t=scenario (0 words)

	PittRadio: Indie Music News - 43 Music Icons Band Together for Human Rights
		Fairlight developed the CMI in 1978, which was used extensively by all the innovative artists participating in the auction.
		Fairlight has dedicated itself to putting innovative technologies in the hands of the creative artists.
		Fairlight was an original pioneer of digital audio and in 1978 developed the world's first digital synthesizer, the Fairlight CMI.
	www.pittradio.net /music_news/2006.asp?id=159 (707 words)

	Fairlight CMI synthesiser - Australia Innovates - Powerhouse Museum
		Named after a Sydney hydrofoil ferry because it represented the latest in technology, the Fairlight is a good story of finding a new application for existing technologies.
		Kim Ryrie and Peter Vogel were still in high school when they put together their first CMI (computer musical instrument) from off-the-shelf hardware.
		But the Fairlight was so advanced that generally musicians had difficulty working out how to use it.
	www.phm.gov.au /australia_innovates/?behaviour=view_article&Section_id=1050&article_id=10055 (0 words)

	Vintage Synth Explorer - Fairlight CMI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		From 1979 to 1985 several versions of the Fairlight were produced, with the Series III being the last of them.
		The Fairlight 1 and 2 had only 16 kByte of Memory per voice, and only eight voices but expanded to several megabytes and double the polyphony by the Fairlight III.
		Original Fairlight models used two standard 8 bit 6800 processors, updated to the more powerful 16 bit 68000 chips in later versions (the IIx had updated 6809 processors, which is what designated it a IIx over a II, and raised the sampling resolution to 32kHz, from the I and II's 24kHz).
	www.vintagesynth.com /misc/fairlight_cmi.shtml (0 words)

	IEEE Virtual Museum: Digital to the Forefront: Synthesizers, the Mellotron, and the Fairlight CMI
		The CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) had much in common with the Moog and earlier “analog” synthesizers and organs, consisting of a keyboard and of a number of modular electronic tone generators, filters, and other circuits to custom-shape the sound.
		The CMI offered the exciting possibility of allowing musicians to capture their own samples from all sorts of sources, from old records to random noises, and play them immediately on the keyboard.
		The CMI was the first digital synthesizer, and in later years this type of instrument would dominate the electronic instrument field.
	www.ieee-virtual-museum.org /exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159271&lid=1&seq=7 (0 words)

	Keyboard Magazine - Fairlight's Peter Vogel
		The Fairlight CMI (computer musical instrument) represents one of the major milestones in the history of digital music technology.
		Recently, Fairlight brought together the CMI’s creators, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie (shown above; that’s Kim on the left, Peter on the right, and a Fairlight Series II in the background of this 1986 photo) to celebrate the completion of a very special CMI refurbishment.
		“The Fairlight made it possible for anyone, on their own, to realize music that they might otherwise never have been able to create,” he told us recently, “either because they didn’t have access to the musicians required, or because the sounds or the music was impossible to make using conventional instruments.
	www.keyboardmag.com /story.asp?storyCode=15085 (0 words)

	Cloudbusting / Subjects / Samplers / Synthesizers
		I'd say with this album, that most of the songs were written on Fairlight and synths and not piano, which was moving away really from the earlier albums, where all my material was written on piano.
		I play the Fairlight, but I didn't have a Fairlight of my own until the last album, and that was only towards the end of it.
		Kate's fairlight conversion seems to have cut down on the appetite for complexity she exhibited while composing at the piano.
	gaffa.org /cloud/subjects/samplers_synthesizers.html (0 words)

	Digital Samplers :: Fairlight E-mu Akai Roland -> Vinyl Records Australia
		Fairlight Instruments was started in Sydney Australia in 1975 by Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie.
		The CMI was the first commercially available digital sampling instrument.
		The original Fairlight CMI sampled using a resolution of 8-bits at a rate of 10khz and was comprised of two 8-bit Motorola 6800 processors, which were later upgraded to the more powerful 16-bit 68000 chips.
	3345.com.au /cyclopedia/lev4_samplers_digital.htm (0 words)

	Digital Samplers :: Fairlight E-mu Akai Roland -> Vinyl Records Australia
		Fairlight Instruments was started in Sydney Australia in 1975 by Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie.
		The CMI was the first commercially available digital sampling instrument.
		The original Fairlight CMI sampled using a resolution of 8-bits at a rate of 10khz and was comprised of two 8-bit Motorola 6800 processors, which were later upgraded to the more powerful 16-bit 68000 chips.
	www.3345.com.au /cyclopedia/lev4_samplers_digital.htm (797 words)

	Vintage Synthesizers
		The first Fairlights began showing up around 1979, and introduced the world to sampling (some of you might say the Mellotron and Chamberlin did that years earlier, but both those instruments only played back pre-recorded sounds whereas the Fairlight allowed the user to sample his own sounds).
		Since the CMI was such cutting edge technolgy, Fairlight had to build their own computer hardware to achieve the capabilities the designers where inventing for the instrument.
		The final Fairlight CMI was the Series III (shown above) which was released around 1986.
	www.egad.net /jetboyjunction/adsr/fairlite.html (0 words)

	K.M.I. - the site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Fairlight CMI is one of the very first samplers and music-workstations (integrated synthesizer/sampler/sequencer).
		Based upon the CMI Series III model with an XDR upgrade, the MFX1 and MFX2 disk recorders were released as successors, still supporting the CMI functions.
		Used as a sampler, the CMI is famous for its (infamous) orchestra-hits ("stabs"), "smoky" synthetic vocal sounds, low-pitched "crispy" percussions, and the unique library of natural instrument samples.
	members.tripod.com /kmi9000/kmi_cmi.htm (0 words)

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