Comments on: Fairlight CMI Legacy Refill

By: Patrick Fridh

Patrick Fridh — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:55:22 +0000

Thanks a lot Oliver, we’ll see! :) I think it grows slowly into people’s mind, hopefully slowly but safely. I keep adding new stuff to it and I added a better DX/TX harp yesterday; today a typical “Pearl In The Shell” synth brass patch. Very appropriate since I got friends with HJ on FB just a few hours ago. It’s for sure an exciting time.

Best!
Patrick

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:45:48 +0000

Hi Patrick. Great thanks for taking the time to make this Refill… I hope you sell a lot of them! It’s like a time machine!

By: Patrick Fridh

Patrick Fridh — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:19:03 +0000

Thanks very much for noticing & commenting! :) I have now released a web page collecting the demos made up until now, some user comments and some background info.

It’s all available here:

http://bitley.laconicsounds.net/

Greetings from Sweden! :)
Patrick Fridh – the man behind the putting-a-fairlight-in-a-laptop-case-idea! :)

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:31:15 +0000

I agree the point of samplers aka to sample your own sounds has taken a back seat to library’s which is lame… I have fond memories of sampling door screatches, etc.. time to do that again! Yeah there seems to be a ton of “sblogs” that copy the stuff here but I don’t mind.

By: sarmoung

sarmoung — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:57:27 +0000

Oooh… I’ve long hoped that someone would make some sort of VST/AU Fairlight and you could have some approximation of the light pen (via iPhone/Touch?). Like many who saw these as a child and had to make do later on with a Casio SK-1 or similar, I rather miss that most contemporary samplers do so little to encourage you to make and invent your own samples rather than just buying libraries to use in them.

That said, I’m tempted by these very nostalgic sounds…

I was looking around for other mentions and sounds for the refill and found this:

http://beatsandstuff.com/fairlight-cmi-legacy-refill

It seems you’re being sampled into some other language and then back again…!