Fairlight CMI Series IIexhibited at in 2011Dates1979–89, 2011–presentPrice18,000 60,000Technical specifications8 16 voicesfor(8bit@16kHz16bit@100kHz)Waveform editing/drawing(FFT)forInput/output73 keys non-weighted, velocity sensitive.Option: slave keyboardLeft-hand control3 sliders & 2 buttons,numeric keypad (right side)External control(option, CMI II). (CMI IIx)The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a, and introduced in 1979. It was based on a commercial licence of the developed by of in, Australia. It was one of the earliest music workstations with an embedded digital sampler, and is credited for coining the term in music.
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It rose to prominence in the early 1980s and competed with the from. An excerpt from Arpegiator (recorded October 1981), highlighting the use of the Fairlight CMIProblems playing this file? See.Origins: 1971–1979 In the 1970s, Kim Ryrie, then a teenager, had an idea to develop a build-it-yourself to be called the ETI 4600, for his family's magazine (ETI). Ryrie was frustrated by the limited number of sounds that the analogue device could make. After his classmate, graduated from high school and had a brief stint at university in 1975, Ryrie asked Vogel if he would be interested in making 'the world's greatest synthesizer' based on the recently announced. He recalled: 'We had long been interested in computers - I built my first computer when I was about 12 - and it was obvious to me that combining digital technology with music synthesis was the way to go.'
In December that year, he and Vogel formed a to manufacture digital synthesizers. They named it Fairlight after the passing before Ryrie's grandmother's home in. The two planned to design a digital synthesizer that could create sounds reminiscent of acoustic instruments. They initially planned to make an analogue synth that was digitally controlled, given that the competing was difficult to control.After six months, the pair met consultant Tony Furse.
In association with the Canberra School of Electronic Music, Furse built a digital synthesizer using two 8-bit microprocessors, and the and some of the graphics that would later become part of the Fairlight CMI. However, the machine was only able to create exact, sounding sterile and inexpressive.Vogel and Ryrie licensed Furse's design, mainly for its, and decided to use microprocessor technology instead of analogue synthesis. Over the next year, the duo made what Ryrie called a 'research design', the bulky, expensive, and unmarketable eight-voice synthesizer QASAR M8, which included a two-by-two-by-four foot processing box and a keyboard.By 1978, Vogel and Ryrie were making 'interesting' but unrealistic sounds. Hoping to learn how to synthesize an instrument by studying the of real instruments, Vogel recorded about a second of a piano piece from a radio broadcast. He discovered that by playing the recording back at different pitches, it sounded much more realistic than a synthesized piano.
He recalled in 2005:It sounded remarkably like a piano, a real piano. This had never been done before. By today's standards it was a pretty awful piano sound, but at the time it was a million times more like a piano than anything any synthesizer had churned out. So I rapidly realised that we didn't have to bother with all the synthesis stuff.
Just take the sounds, whack them in the memory and away you go.Vogel and Ryrie coined the term to describe this process. With the Fairlight CMI, they could now produce endless sounds, but control was limited to. According to Ryrie, 'We regarded using recorded real-life sounds as a compromise - as cheating - and we didn't feel particularly proud of it.' They continued to work on the design while making money by creating office computers for Remington Office Machines, which Ryrie described as 'a horrendous exercise, but we sold 120 of them'. Series I: 1979–1982. Fairlight CMIIn addition to the keyboard, processing, computer graphics and interactive pen borrowed from Furse's synthesizer, the pair added a keyboard, and a large one-by-1.5-by-three foot box stored the sampling, processing and / hardware and the.
By now, the biggest problem was the short sample length, which typically lasted from a half of to an entire second; it could only handle a of 24 kilohertz and a of ten kilohertz at most, so a sample rate had to be as low as eight kilohertz and a of 3,500 hertz for longer sounds to be used. However, Vogel felt the low quality of the sounds was what gave them their own character.The Music Composition Language feature was criticized as being too difficult for empirical users. Other primitive aspects included its limited amount of RAM (208 kilobytes) and its green and black graphics. Nonetheless, the CMI garnered significant attention from Australian distributors and consumers for being able to emulate sounds of acoustic instruments, as well as for its light pen and three-dimensional sound visualization. Still, Vogel was unsure if there would be enough interest in the product. The CMI's ability to emulate real instruments made some refer to it as an 'orchestra-in-a-box', and each unit came with eight-inch, 500-kilobyte floppy disks that each stored twenty-two samples of orchestral instruments.
The Fairlight CMI also garnered publicity in the science industry, being featured on the science and technology series; given that futuristic theories of poor-sounding digital orchestras were also being made, Musicians' Union railed against the CMI who called it a 'lethal threat' towards its members.In the summer of 1979, Vogel went to the home of English singer-songwriter, where his was being recorded, to show him the Fairlight CMI. Gabriel, as well as many other people in the studio, was instantly engrossed by it, and he used strange sounds such as breaking glass bottles and bricks on the album. One of those present for the demonstration, Stephen Paine, recalled in 1996: 'The idea of recording a sound into solid-state memory and having real-time pitch control over it appeared incredibly exciting.
Until that time everything that captured sound had been tape-based. The Fairlight CMI was like a much more reliable and versatile digital. Gabriel was completely thrilled, and instantly put the machine to use during the week that Peter Vogel stayed at his house.' Gabriel was also interested in selling the CMI in the United Kingdom, and he and Paine formed Syco Systems to distribute the product in the country at a price of £12,000. The first person to purchase the CMI in Britain was bassist. Other well-known figures from the British music industry followed, including,. The Fairlight CMI was a commercial success in the United States as well, used by American acts such as,.
However, musicians came to realize that the CMI could not match the expressiveness and level of control offered by acoustic instruments, and that sampling was better applied as imaginative sound than pure reproduction. Series II: 1982–1985. Fairlight CMI Series IIx (1983)The second version of the Fairlight CMI, Series II, was released at a price of £30,000 in 1982. Although it still used 8-bit recordings like the Series I, the sounds produced were of better quality given that the system could handle a sample rate as high as 32 kilohertz and a maximum of fifteen kilohertz.
The CMI's popularity peaked in 1982 following its appearance on a special of the arts magazine series that documented the making of, where he used 64 kilobytes worth of samples of instruments and sequenced skippy-rhythm'd percussion.Fairlight CMI Series II was used on nearly every album released in the early to mid-1980s, and its most commonly used presets included an ('ORCH 5') and a breathy vox ('ARR 1'). The CMI Series II is also credited as helping launch popular musical styles such as,. 'Page R' and on Fairlight CMI Series IIThe popularity of Series II was in large part due to a new feature, Page R, their first true. As a replacement for the complicated Music Composition Language (MCL) used by Series I, Page R helped the Fairlight CMI Series II become a commercial juggernaut.
Page R expanded the CMI's audience beyond that of accomplished keyboard players. Audio Media magazine described it as an echo of the era: 'Page R also gave rise to a flow of quasi-socialist sounding ideology, that hailed the impending democratisation of music creation, making it available to the musically chops-challenged.' Graphically depicting editable notes horizontally from left to right, the profession and the concepts of and cycling patterns of bars where instrument channels could be added or removed were also born out of the Page R sequencer. CMI user Roger Bolton recalled: 'By definition, its sampling limitations and the Page R sequencer forced the composer to make high-quality decisions out of necessity.
The CMI II was a high-level composition tool that not only shaped the sound of the 80s, but the way that music was actually written.' Fairlight kept making updates to the system, such as a 1983 upgrade called the CMI Series IIx which now allowed for, until the release of Series III in 1985. Series III: 1985–1989. Fairlight CMI Series III (1985)With 14 megabytes of RAM, which equates to about a three-minute long stereo sample, the Series III was the first sampler capable of creating sounds with 16-bit, 44.1 kilohertz sample files, as well as 16-voice polyphonic patches.
Its design, graphics, and editing tools were also improved, such as the addition of a tablet next to the QWERTY keys, using a stylus instead of the on-screen lightpen; this change was made due to complaints from users regarding arm aches from having to hold the pen on the screen.An enhanced version of the Page R sequencer called Composer, Arranger, Performer, Sequencer, or CAPS, as well as Eventsync, a post-production utility based on linking, were also added to the Series III computer. However, while many people were still using CMIs, sales were starting to diminish significantly due to much lower-cost, MIDI-based sequencers and samplers including the and 's S612, S900 and 1000 samplers in the market. Paine stopped selling the CMI in the United Kingdom because of this. The Fairlight company was becoming more focused on post-production products, a market Paine had a hard time getting used to, and when HHB Communications Ltd took over distribution for the United Kingdom, they failed to sell any. Adoption was the first owner of a Fairlight Series I in the UK.
Of purchased the second, which hired for many recordings during the early part of his career. In the US, Bruce Jackson demonstrated the Series I sampler for a year before selling units to and in 1980 for US $27,500 each. Meat-packing heir bought two for use at in Los Angeles. Other early adopters included, of, producer and Ned Liben of.The first commercially released album to incorporate it was 's (1980), programmed by Richard James Burgess and.Wonder took his Fairlight out on tour in 1980 in support of the album to replace the sampler he had used on the recording.
Of conspicuously used a CMI with monitor on the band's 1980 tour to support the album. The first classical album using the CMI was produced by in 1980 with composers and.also featured the CMI. In 1981, Austrian musicians and Harald Zuschrader composed a symphony, Erdenklang – Computerakustische Klangsinfonie. This work premiered live on stage, using five music computers, during the festival in Linz. Influence and legacy After the success of the Fairlight CMI, other firms introduced sampling. Modified their digital synth to perform sampling, while introduced a less costly sampling keyboard, the, in 1981. In the United States, a new sampler company, introduced the in 1985, at a price that made sampling affordable to the average musician for the first time.
In America, Joan Gand of Gand Music and Sound in Northfield, Illinois was the top salesperson for Fairlight. The Gand organisation sold CMIs to, James 'J.Y.' Young of, John Lowry of, Derek St. Holmes of the band, of, and many private studio owners and rock personalities. Mix (28 January 2011). Archived from on 10 August 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
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