2 ms·

Wow, he's got original Fairlight 8" disks from the Pet Shop Boys' first album: https://synthroom.com/fairlight-cmi/psb-fairlight-disks/ https://synthroom.com/f

by pavlov 4y ago

Wow, he's got original Fairlight 8" disks from the Pet Shop Boys' first album: https://synthroom.com/fairlight-cmi/psb-fairlight-disks/ https://synthroom.com/fairlight-cmi/psb-fairlight-disks/ These Fairlight sequences were apparently made for a PSB tour that never happened. Here's an example of what they sound like: https://synthroom.com/fairlight-cmi/psb-fairlight-disks/psb-weg-fairlight-data-disk-2/ https://synthroom.com/fairlight-cmi/psb-fairlight-disks/psb-... This raw output from the Fairlight CMI sounds a lot like an 8-channel Amiga to my ears. Usually you hear this legendary instrument as part of a mix with a lot more going on in production, so the dryness of the low-resolution samples is not so apparent.

squarefoot 4y ago
> This raw output from the Fairlight CMI sounds a lot like an 8-channel Amiga to my ears. The Fairlight CMI DACs were 8 bit and worked at quite low sampling rate compared to today standards. Many samples also were taken in the 80s from synths and drum machines of that era, therefore they sound similar to those used with the Amiga (aside the CMI having much better anti aliasing filters). Probably many of these have been ported directly and used in tracker music, which at that time was rampant.