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The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, sampler, and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight. It was based on a commercial licence of the Qasar M8 developed by Tony Furse of Creative Strategies in Sydney, Australia. It was one of the earliest music workstations with an embedded sampler, and is credited for coining the term sampling in music. It rose to prominence in the early 1980s and competed with the Synclavier from New England Digital.
...vintage synth weight in lieu of purchasing one of these beats. What is the likelihood that a system like a Fairlight CMI (I-III) or Synclavier II will go up in value and is a solid purchase in 2019 and beyond? There was a great discussion here about the merits of old world and modern day sampling....
Here, for free is a properly looped mapped and tuned selection of most of the original Fairlight CMI III factory library. It also includes a version of the IIx library with a bunch more unknown user content, imported on the series III. This apparently is what anyone with a series III would have acquired...
They are sampled. Nothingburger release for me.
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