Kurzbeschreibung
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Synclavier, Fairlight CMI, Sampler, Ensoniq Mirage, Kaoss Pad, Music Production Center, E-mu Emulator, Korg Triton, Roland Sound Canvas, Kurzweil K2000, Casio FZ-1, Kontakt, Ensoniq EPS, E-mu SP-1200, Korg DSS-1, Akai MPC60, LinuxSampler, Vienna Symphonic Library, E-mu Emax, Akai S3000XL, Roland SP-808, Roland MS-1 Digital Sampler, Yamaha TX16W, Roland SP-303, Roland SP-404, E-mu Emulator X. Excerpt: The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, and based on a dual-6800 microprocessor computer designed by Tony Furse in Sydney, Australia. It rose to prominence in the early 1980s and competed in the market with the Synclavier from New England Digital. A Fairlight CMI keyboard, featuring signatures from 43 celebrity musicians, composers and producers.The Fairlight CMI was a development of an earlier synthesizer called the Qasar M8, an attempt to create sound by modeling all of the parameters of a waveform in real time. Unfortunately, this was beyond the available processing power of the day, and the results were disappointing. In an attempt to make something of it, Vogel and Ryrie decided to see what it would do with a naturally recorded sound wave as a starting point. To their surprise the effect was remarkable, and the digital sampler was born. In casting about for a name, Ryrie and Vogel settled upon Fairlight, the name of a hydrofoil (named in turn after Fairlight, New South Wales) that sped each day past Ryrie's grandmother's large house in Point Piper, New South Wales, underneath which Ryrie had a workroom. By 1979, the Fairlight CMI Series I was being demonstrated in Australia, the UK and the US, the latter country covered by Bruce Springsteen's concert sound engineer Bruce Jackson, once Ryrie's ...