I was enjoying playing around with the CMI V last night. Didn't explore the samples category because I didn't know how before your video, and I think a user can load their own personal samples as well. Wouldn't mind Arturia releasing modeled versions of their polybrute, matrixbrute, and perhaps others.
Awesome sampler, way ahead of its time! And that famous ARR1 choir sound @ 27:21, used in tons of tracks from the 80's ;) Tears For Fears' "Shout", Art of Noise's "Moments in Love" as you mentioned, and many others... and, for French people around there, Daniel Balavoine's "Sauvez l'Amour" ;)
If you were a fan of Miami Vice you'll instantly recognize the sound ARR1 in the chorals samples. I love that breathy sound used in Crocketts theme and I still can't seem to recreate it. Maybe I needed to go 8bit!
I hardly ever comment twice on the same upload, but THIS... Well Arturia CMI V is just stunning. I'm really, really impressed! Even more so with the original Fairlight device! Really, really ahead of its time!
I will always hold the CMI Fairlight the one instrument that changed my outlook on music and genius of Kate Bush and what she was able to produce from it in the studio.
I really enjoyed watching this, brings back a lot of good memories! Back in that time I was listening to Frankie Goes To Hollywood a lot. I read Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI for their music as well. Although other nowadays exotic instruments like the Emulator, the Synclavier and the PPG Wave were used even more extensively. These three would be great candidates for a review, too. I would definitely be looking forward to it! Thanks a lot for bringing up all these entertaining videos!
When the Art Of Noise released Beatbox/Moments In Love there was this tectonic shift in pop music that lasted well into the 90s. I mean certainly you had other recordings like Owner Of the Lonely Heart. But those orchestra hits and the guitar chords on Owner Of the Lonely Heart chisel out sculptures on the sonic granite that isn't easily forgotten.
13:20 I just got a call from Neil Tennant, he's got a fabulous idea for a song, I believe it's called "Suburbia". Might not really catch on with all the barking, though.
I've actually got the Arturia V8 collection and this is one of my favourite vst's. I've just read Thomas Dolbys book (speed of sound ) and it's got me back on creating music again with the CMI. I love the ARR1 sound TD used in on Screen kiss it's just a beautiful sound. Always fab videos Woody cheers
Last week I was playing on an original Fairlight at an expo. Samples like Art of noise, close to the edit...'tum tum'. MJ Beat it intro clang. And the brass stab that was used several octaves down to make the Terminator drone that slides down in pitch. The best fun!
I'm extremely late to the party, but I thought I would clarify a few things for the benefit of fture visitors to this video. The Fairlight CMI was just a sampler which could (for the early 80s) do an amazing amount of editing/manipulating of the digital samples. So any sound you heard from the Fairlight CMI was sampled from another instrument, voice, ambient recording, etc. In the case of the Michael Jackson "Beat It" clang, he sampled a vinyl album of sounds from the Synclavier that was available to promote the Synclavier. It wasn't long before there was a lot of cross-pollination between samplers, such as the Emulator I, Emulator II, Fairlight CMI, and Synclavier II (the original Synclavier could not sample, just create its own sounds) , so the origin of many iconic sounds from the 80s can be difficult to trace.
I had this playing on the TV and the 10 year old came in to watch and listen. He was amazed. I remember being amazed by a demo of the real Fairlight when I was a kid. He was even more amazed when I said I have that if you want to try it out ☝🏼😄
I would say the array of “natural” sounds, not just the typical synth palette he is used to hearing from my stuff. And yea maybe dog barks from a strange computer like screen☝🏼😄
I think the tomorrow's world presenter is not quite correct because the Fairlight sounds are actually recordings, digitally recorded sounds that we call these days 'samples'. The CMI Fairlight was a sophisticated sampling synthesizor.
You have to think in the context of what "recordings" meant to people in 1980. Strictly speaking, what the Fairlight/Samplers do is not recording as recording was known at the time - recording to tape.
The "bizarre" sample appears in Jarre's album "Zoolook" :) Even having a powerful sampler at that time, he couldn't prevent from using a preset! LOL...he did that again with some presets from the Roland D-50 for the album "Revolutions".... BTW, a great plugin, sounds really nice!! ;) Thanks Gareth.
The D-50 presets he used were not factory but they were specifically designed for the album, however, the album was a very good demonstration of the D50's capabilities. That was pretty similar to Zoolook, which was almost a demonstrator for the Fairlight. The "Bizarre" sample you demo'd was famously used in the opening track, "Ethnicolor". The CMI is also used extensively on his Magnetic Fields album.
Relevant trivia: Jan Hammer's most well known use of the Fairlight is actually it's additive synthesis engine. He used it to make the arpeggio/sequence line to the Miami Vice Theme. Of course, he also used the Fairlight for the orchestra sample stack punctuating the end of the song as well. Throughout his time scoring the weekly series, Hammer made extensive use of the Fairlight's samples. The same vocal sample Art of Noise used for their song Moments In Love was used by Hammer to provide the main melody for Crockett's Theme. He even amassed his own sample library (largely by accident) as he carried on scoring Miami Vice for 5 out of it's 6 year run.
Excellent research into the background of this extraordinary instrument and a good introductory demonstration. I'll definitely look into Arturia's product so I can get my piece of the Fairlight. It was actually the first set of orchestral hits that you auditioned that were frequented ( on 90s rap/hip_hop ). But yes you did hear the last set of orchestral hits on Play At Your Own Risk and Planet Rock
yes now I do as I've just brought it and ... Oh my the memory's have come flooding back :) thanks for posting this video I would have never known about this plugin otherwise :)
Thanks for the great video - they are always entertaining and informative! I was checking this out specifically because the entire V collection 7 is currently on sale for half off - so only $100 more than buying the CMI on its own and I wanted to actually see their CMI recreation in action. Your video is better than anything they have put out!
Great demo Woody👍🏻 I remember the orch hit being on everything back then lol. One that springs to mind is Jon Andersons(from Yes) Do You Want to Be a Hero from the Biggles movie😆
Woody, i don't know why but i've always hated vst synths but this CMI just AMAZING, so atmospheric, so inspiring! Maybe that's because it based on real samples, thank you!
Thank you so much for this Woody. As you know I enjoy all of your videos, I think though this is my favourite. Arturia may have brought this amazing product back to life, but if I go out and buy it, it will be through this video. I cannot tell you how badly I wanted one of these all those years ago, all the memories have just come flooding back. Many thanks for this! Oh and I cant be sure, but that 'bell' you chose I believe was used in the original 'Bagpuss' Children's TV programme!
@@WoodyPianoShack LOL, it was worth it. I purchased the V7 collection 6 months ago and have only played around with the CMI a little. I learnt a lot from this video. Thank you!
Very interesting and helpful. I'm testing the demo version. I sampled my voice and very easily made a choir. I remember spending hours of fun programming the Ensoniq ASR sampler. I'm very tempted to buy it even if I do mostly acoustic jazz. Just for fun.
we have a lot to be thankful for. with onset of samplers digital to analog convertors etc etc... but more importantly if computers had'nt been invented all this would never of happened.
Francis Maxino I don’t honestly think she’d have reached where she is without the work she put in with it in the 80s. The Dreaming and HOL were swimming in sounds from the original library as well as reworked sounds and her own samples . The famous sound on running up that hill (not the drone, the other one) was made from the reverb tail of one of the string sounds. She’s a clever woman, that Kate Bush. Can you tell I’m a massive fan? 😄
@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 Hi Cam. Do you have a link that talks about specifics re: iconic sounds in "Running Up That Hill"? It sounds like she reversed the reverb tail that you mentioned...but I'd like to have some fun recreating that sound in this software, plus others. Thanks. 🙂
31:50 orchestral hits - One of the most famous examples can be found in the song "Hello Again" by The Cars - At 2 min 57 secs on THAT video (not here) a guy in black shirt turns towards the camera and you hear that sound. They used many many of these fairlight sounds on 'Hello Again' and album. They also recorded their own voices and sound into the fairlight. Something that Arturia, unfortunately, does not allow. The cars were one of the first groups to do this. michelle jean zarre was an earlier example and it used much of the library. The cars video with fairlight sounds - ruclips.net/video/KXpJ0bM5zbM/видео.html
I know the video is one year old and I haven't read all the comments, but wasn't the Mellotron really more a sample synth than the Fairlight? Ok, it used tapes but the tapes played a recording of the real instruments and they did it in the sixties!
@@IncogNito-fv7ty That's right! I don't know why I thought about samplers while watching this video, the Fairlight used syntesis and the Mellotron used recorded tapes so it was different.
24:00 So this is where the Amiga games got their samples from or the ST-XX sample library..! That guitar was heavily used on New York Warriors, Menace and Rockford.
Hope you've been having a great holiday break Woody. Good to see someone taking time to play with the CMI V. My turn soon :). Just getting over visitors for Xmas etc. I think the potential of it is amazing. Oh and, if I forgot to tell you, or anyone, check out cut the talking, done by a Australian band (The Dugites) in the 80s, using the fairlight.
Love this - even though I bought the Arturia collection, it was fun watching you plow through so many great samples. Two highlights for me: 1. When the guy on the video you shared selected to Load and you immediately hear the floppy disc load sound ... love it. We had to program for light pen in one of my engineering classes :) 2. The lo-fi sounds! I have an Ensoniq Mirage (8-bit sampler from ~1985) and the sounds are notoriously lo-fi, something I tried to move away from as quickly as possible, but since no one ever wanted to pay decent money for the Mirage I just ended up keeping it around! Now to spend more time with my own CMI V plugin!
Very true - Having floppies for the Ensoniq Mirage and Kurzweil K2000R, and having them all backed up for the occasional floppy-fail .. more than enough for me!
It's fun to illustrate Arturia's CMI V program with the BBC demonstration video (1'35"). Because the machine that has served to do modeling and testing is precisely what comes from the BBC. I checked the serial number is the same.
That "Eery" sound pitched down is definitely in the intro to Tiger Tiger by Duran Duran. I always wondered what they sampled but now I know. Nick Rhodes used the Fairlight a LOT on Seven and the Ragged Tiger and So Red the Rose. Those are the quintessential Fairlight albums for me (next to Peter Gabriel III)
26:40 Am I in a dream? Loved that performance, the reverb fits so well! I recognise a lot of these sounds from Amiga modules too! Of course, stuff like the bass and choirs came from the CMI originally, but the one guitar.. I can't remember it from the CMI IIX sample library (which is free to download and public domain if people only want the sounds!) BELL3 reminds me of the 'Vibraphone' from the D-50, btw. I wonder if it was used as a base?
ooh, you're right, that was a pretty sweet segment, now that you made me listen to it again. people will be wanting a link to that library, how are you supposed to play it?
Cool demo - thanks! I even have an original Fairlight CMI colour brochure. Maybe its time to try a demo vst since the real deal is out of the question :)
The pitched down EEERRRY1 sample is what Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes used on the beginning of Tiger Tiger, off the Seven and Ragged Tiger album. In fact you almost played the same notes.
Wasn't the Fairlight used extensively in Jane Child's "Don't Wanna Fall In Love?" Man that was an amazing track. I don't know that I've ever heard anyone try to recreate that? A Challenge!
Really fun. Thank you. Looks like a winner to me. Oldskool and exhibiting feelings of nostalgia. That is what we like Woody. Can you do a review on the newly released JV1080 VA Synth from the Roland Cloud? This seems to be a winner too! Cheerio!!
Woody Piano Shack the Jupiter! It looks interesting. It’s what I originally was looking at last year from Arturia. I got the free version but moved on at the time. When I saw the dx7 available I decided to pull the trigger on the whole collection. I honestly haven’t looked into much of the others so anything you cover would be cool. For non-Arturia stuff have you played the TAL-UN-O LX that mimics the Roland Juno 106? It’s pretty stellar.
that choir5 sound at 26:49 blew me away. Thanks Woody for opening my eyes to this.
I was enjoying playing around with the CMI V last night. Didn't explore the samples category because I didn't know how before your video, and I think a user can load their own personal samples as well.
Wouldn't mind Arturia releasing modeled versions of their polybrute, matrixbrute, and perhaps others.
I own the arturia version too and i am blown away. Its also cool to recognize so many sounds from many 80s hits
This channel is so wholesome it makes me happy.
Awesome sampler, way ahead of its time! And that famous ARR1 choir sound @ 27:21, used in tons of tracks from the 80's ;)
Tears For Fears' "Shout", Art of Noise's "Moments in Love" as you mentioned, and many others... and, for French people around there, Daniel Balavoine's "Sauvez l'Amour" ;)
31:48 this string appears in The Dreaming by Kate Bush, she used Fairlight a lot in her songs
It’s the famous Orch5 preset - an orchestra hit
If you were a fan of Miami Vice you'll instantly recognize the sound ARR1 in the chorals samples. I love that breathy sound used in Crocketts theme and I still can't seem to recreate it. Maybe I needed to go 8bit!
I hardly ever comment twice on the same upload, but THIS... Well Arturia CMI V is just stunning. I'm really, really impressed! Even more so with the original Fairlight device! Really, really ahead of its time!
The Fairight sampler still sounds amazing today.
18:50 Brasfal1 patch was used in Terminator 2 Movie at low pitch
BTW yes I watched to the end - so be amazed LOL ;) You're videos are always great viewing / listening, thank you.
I will always hold the CMI Fairlight the one instrument that changed my outlook on music and genius of Kate Bush and what she was able to produce from it in the studio.
I really enjoyed watching this, brings back a lot of good memories! Back in that time I was listening to Frankie Goes To Hollywood a lot. I read Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI for their music as well. Although other nowadays exotic instruments like the Emulator, the Synclavier and the PPG Wave were used even more extensively. These three would be great candidates for a review, too. I would definitely be looking forward to it! Thanks a lot for bringing up all these entertaining videos!
When the Art Of Noise released Beatbox/Moments In Love there was this tectonic shift in pop music that lasted well into the 90s. I mean certainly you had other recordings like Owner Of the Lonely Heart. But those orchestra hits and the guitar chords on Owner Of the Lonely Heart chisel out sculptures on the sonic granite that isn't easily forgotten.
I just had to post this while listening to this. What a quote. "For once, lo-fi is good-fi". That's wonderful! Poetic truth. :)
what an extremely advanced sampler, way ahead of their time.
of course, and the price was eye watering.. thankfully cheaper solutions turned up like the akai s950 etc ;-)
@@fogvarious2478 Roland s50 was more similar
@@jessihawkins9116 my friend had the later 760. another had a esi 32.. but akai was the standard with most i knew in various london studios
13:20 I just got a call from Neil Tennant, he's got a fabulous idea for a song, I believe it's called "Suburbia". Might not really catch on with all the barking, though.
Well that half hour went fast. Such magical sounds.
I too remember seeing the Fairlight on Tomorrows World when it was originally broadcast, was it really in 1980... Wow.
That brass fall @18:53 was most famously used as the eerie noise that plays in Terminator 2 when the T-1000 is on screen
I've actually got the Arturia V8 collection and this is one of my favourite vst's.
I've just read Thomas Dolbys book (speed of sound ) and it's got me back on creating music again with the CMI.
I love the ARR1 sound TD used in on Screen kiss it's just a beautiful sound.
Always fab videos Woody cheers
Thanks for this, Woody. I’m now ready to buy this.
21:54 - The beginning of "Tiger Tiger" by Duran Duran.
you beat me to it! :) :) :)
Last week I was playing on an original Fairlight at an expo.
Samples like Art of noise, close to the edit...'tum tum'.
MJ Beat it intro clang.
And the brass stab that was used several octaves down to make the Terminator drone that slides down in pitch.
The best fun!
I'm extremely late to the party, but I thought I would clarify a few things for the benefit of fture visitors to this video.
The Fairlight CMI was just a sampler which could (for the early 80s) do an amazing amount of editing/manipulating of the digital samples. So any sound you heard from the Fairlight CMI was sampled from another instrument, voice, ambient recording, etc. In the case of the Michael Jackson "Beat It" clang, he sampled a vinyl album of sounds from the Synclavier that was available to promote the Synclavier. It wasn't long before there was a lot of cross-pollination between samplers, such as the Emulator I, Emulator II, Fairlight CMI, and Synclavier II (the original Synclavier could not sample, just create its own sounds) , so the origin of many iconic sounds from the 80s can be difficult to trace.
I've bought this following your review, Woody. Thanks! I'm just about old enough to remember this the first time around!
Very nice demos of great value, thanks a lot!
13:52 Kate Bush-"Under Ice" cello/upright bass sound. 14:04 Dead or Alive- "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" slap bass sound!
The mother of all layers ... :) Nearly laughed my head off there.
Pure gold- an element of seriousness in the delivery not like the fake-peppy presenters of today. Kerian Prendeville exuded a casual gravitas.
great vintage sounds , thanks for the video!
I had this playing on the TV and the 10 year old came in to watch and listen. He was amazed. I remember being amazed by a demo of the real
Fairlight when I was a kid. He was even more amazed when I said I have that if you want to try it out ☝🏼😄
that's funny, what in the video attracted a 10 year old? the dog barking sample perhaps... ? :)
I would say the array of “natural” sounds, not just the typical synth palette he is used to hearing from my stuff. And yea maybe dog barks from a strange computer like screen☝🏼😄
Trevor Horn produced "Owner of a Lonely Heart" which that awesome horn stab sample was on. Very clever, Arturia.
I think the tomorrow's world presenter is not quite correct because the Fairlight sounds are actually recordings, digitally recorded sounds that we call these days 'samples'. The CMI Fairlight was a sophisticated sampling synthesizor.
You have to think in the context of what "recordings" meant to people in 1980. Strictly speaking, what the Fairlight/Samplers do is not recording as recording was known at the time - recording to tape.
That BELLTREE sample at16:00 is the first sound you hear in OMD’s ‘So in love’.
The "bizarre" sample appears in Jarre's album "Zoolook" :) Even having a powerful sampler at that time, he couldn't prevent from using a preset! LOL...he did that again with some presets from the Roland D-50 for the album "Revolutions"....
BTW, a great plugin, sounds really nice!! ;) Thanks Gareth.
He used loads of presets from the D50
The D-50 presets he used were not factory but they were specifically designed for the album, however, the album was a very good demonstration of the D50's capabilities. That was pretty similar to Zoolook, which was almost a demonstrator for the Fairlight. The "Bizarre" sample you demo'd was famously used in the opening track, "Ethnicolor".
The CMI is also used extensively on his Magnetic Fields album.
Yes! I recognized that "Bizarre" sample but I couldn't quite place it. Thanks for relieving me of that uncomfortable feeling of confusion.
Anyone who knows Zoolook should listen to 'No Devotion' by the Revolting Cocks.
Korg also "borrowed" some samples from the Fairlight in their T-series. that you hear on Zoolok (the funy voice samplings "Tee" )
Relevant trivia: Jan Hammer's most well known use of the Fairlight is actually it's additive synthesis engine. He used it to make the arpeggio/sequence line to the Miami Vice Theme. Of course, he also used the Fairlight for the orchestra sample stack punctuating the end of the song as well.
Throughout his time scoring the weekly series, Hammer made extensive use of the Fairlight's samples. The same vocal sample Art of Noise used for their song Moments In Love was used by Hammer to provide the main melody for Crockett's Theme. He even amassed his own sample library (largely by accident) as he carried on scoring Miami Vice for 5 out of it's 6 year run.
Interesting. That was as the saying goes, nice work if you can get it 😎
@@William_sJazzLoft It helped the mood of that show immensely, too.
@@artisan002 Indeed
Excellent research into the background of this extraordinary instrument and a good introductory demonstration. I'll definitely look into Arturia's product so I can get my piece of the Fairlight. It was actually the first set of orchestral hits that you auditioned that were frequented ( on 90s rap/hip_hop ). But yes you did hear the last set of orchestral hits on Play At Your Own Risk and Planet Rock
I always wanted a Fairlight CMI when I was a kid :)
now you can! kind of...
yes now I do as I've just brought it and ... Oh my the memory's have come flooding back :)
thanks for posting this video I would have never known about this plugin otherwise :)
Thanks for the great video - they are always entertaining and informative! I was checking this out specifically because the entire V collection 7 is currently on sale for half off - so only $100 more than buying the CMI on its own and I wanted to actually see their CMI recreation in action. Your video is better than anything they have put out!
Great demo Woody👍🏻 I remember the orch hit being on everything back then lol. One that springs to mind is Jon Andersons(from Yes) Do You Want to Be a Hero from the Biggles movie😆
Thank’s a lot as always for your time and effort doing this demos!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
So much Art Of Noise in here
Woody, i don't know why but i've always hated vst synths but this CMI just AMAZING, so atmospheric, so inspiring! Maybe that's because it based on real samples, thank you!
TBF, Arturia are REALLY good at what they do. To the point of being scary-ish
Nice work Woody. Very tempted to get this😊
Thank you so much for this Woody. As you know I enjoy all of your videos, I think though this is my favourite. Arturia may have brought this amazing product back to life, but if I go out and buy it, it will be through this video. I cannot tell you how badly I wanted one of these all those years ago, all the memories have just come flooding back. Many thanks for this! Oh and I cant be sure, but that 'bell' you chose I believe was used in the original 'Bagpuss' Children's TV programme!
There was a good deal of collaboration between Yes and the Art Of Noise centered around the Series ll Fairlight.
Incredible video! Thanks Woody.
Just finished watching. Great review!
congratulations, you made it!
@@WoodyPianoShack LOL, it was worth it. I purchased the V7 collection 6 months ago and have only played around with the CMI a little. I learnt a lot from this video. Thank you!
Yup that reverb on that CMI fairlight program sounds rather gnarly! 🙂🎵🙂
Very interesting and helpful. I'm testing the demo version. I sampled my voice and very easily made a choir.
I remember spending hours of fun programming the Ensoniq ASR sampler.
I'm very tempted to buy it even if I do mostly acoustic jazz. Just for fun.
Are there any limitations with the demo version? I've emailed Arturia a few months ago but they didn't answer.
0:19:30 classic Art Of Noise / Yes brass hits
2:28 The dog sound from Goosebumps.
Thanks so much for this video! I'll buy this one for sure!! K
Awesome demo! :)
I love your energy, woody. And really want to dive into the fairlight now! (I have it!j
we have a lot to be thankful for. with onset of samplers digital to analog convertors etc etc... but more importantly if computers had'nt been invented all this would never of happened.
I just bought Analog Lab 3 :)
1:49 "These aren't recordings, these are electronically created sounds" -- wrong. The CMI is a sampler, the sounds ARE recordings.
instant 80's
19:08 horn section in Sat In Your Lap by Kate Bush
Getting serious ‘Look Around You’ vibes from that 80s show. Where’s Synthesizer Patel when you need him!
He’s rapping, rapping, he’s rap rap rapping.
"Date modified 01/01/1985" Delightful :D
27:38
"I'm playing all the right notes... but not necessarily in the right order."
Happy Christmas and New Year, Woody. ;)
Kieran Prendiville went on to write "Ballykissangel". What a legend.
He did?
Another proudly Australian invention.
Woody, thanks for fueling my GAS!
Kate Bush also made extensive use of the Fairlight...
Francis Maxino I don’t honestly think she’d have reached where she is without the work she put in with it in the 80s. The Dreaming and HOL were swimming in sounds from the original library as well as reworked sounds and her own samples . The famous sound on running up that hill (not the drone, the other one) was made from the reverb tail of one of the string sounds. She’s a clever woman, that Kate Bush. Can you tell I’m a massive fan? 😄
@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 Hi Cam. Do you have a link that talks about specifics re: iconic sounds in "Running Up That Hill"? It sounds like she reversed the reverb tail that you mentioned...but I'd like to have some fun recreating that sound in this software, plus others. Thanks. 🙂
31:50 orchestral hits - One of the most famous examples can be found in the song "Hello Again" by The Cars - At 2 min 57 secs on THAT video (not here) a guy in black shirt turns towards the camera and you hear that sound. They used many many of these fairlight sounds on 'Hello Again' and album. They also recorded their own voices and sound into the fairlight. Something that Arturia, unfortunately, does not allow. The cars were one of the first groups to do this. michelle jean zarre was an earlier example and it used much of the library. The cars video with fairlight sounds - ruclips.net/video/KXpJ0bM5zbM/видео.html
Great stuff Woodster! So much of my favourite music used this machine. Crazy price tag, back then! Happy festive season to you & your family :--)
indeed, same to you and yours.
I know the video is one year old and I haven't read all the comments, but wasn't the Mellotron really more a sample synth than the Fairlight? Ok, it used tapes but the tapes played a recording of the real instruments and they did it in the sixties!
@@IncogNito-fv7ty That's right! I don't know why I thought about samplers while watching this video, the Fairlight used syntesis and the Mellotron used recorded tapes so it was different.
And the most famous of them all, could it be the Sakuhashi?
Love Fairlight. This will be a part of my arsenal very soon. Thx for a nice walk through.
24:00 So this is where the Amiga games got their samples from or the ST-XX sample library..! That guitar was heavily used on New York Warriors, Menace and Rockford.
Hope you've been having a great holiday break Woody. Good to see someone taking time to play with the CMI V. My turn soon :). Just getting over visitors for Xmas etc. I think the potential of it is amazing. Oh and, if I forgot to tell you, or anyone, check out cut the talking, done by a Australian band (The Dugites) in the 80s, using the fairlight.
Love this - even though I bought the Arturia collection, it was fun watching you plow through so many great samples. Two highlights for me:
1. When the guy on the video you shared selected to Load and you immediately hear the floppy disc load sound ... love it. We had to program for light pen in one of my engineering classes :)
2. The lo-fi sounds! I have an Ensoniq Mirage (8-bit sampler from ~1985) and the sounds are notoriously lo-fi, something I tried to move away from as quickly as possible, but since no one ever wanted to pay decent money for the Mirage I just ended up keeping it around!
Now to spend more time with my own CMI V plugin!
enjoy yourself michael, yes, i heard the noise of the floppy drive too, awesome. although i'm happy not to have to put up with that in the emulation.
Very true - Having floppies for the Ensoniq Mirage and Kurzweil K2000R, and having them all backed up for the occasional floppy-fail .. more than enough for me!
The Trevhorn sample made me instantly think of the theme tune to the Krypton Factor.
It's fun to illustrate Arturia's CMI V program with the BBC demonstration video (1'35"). Because the machine that has served to do modeling and testing is precisely what comes from the BBC. I checked the serial number is the same.
You mean Arturia rented a Fairlight that was the same serial number as the one used on the BBC?
That "Eery" sound pitched down is definitely in the intro to Tiger Tiger by Duran Duran. I always wondered what they sampled but now I know. Nick Rhodes used the Fairlight a LOT on Seven and the Ragged Tiger and So Red the Rose. Those are the quintessential Fairlight albums for me (next to Peter Gabriel III)
Viva nostalgia!
Al Jourgensen used the Fairlight CMI exclusively for Ministry’s Twitch.
Well played at 10:21 :)
I like the You Hoo sample. That should be a ring tone.
21:55…. I recognize that sound! Go play the beginning of Duran Duran’s “Tiger Tiger.” How cool!!!
I just discovered your channel and i'm wondering why i didn't discover it earlier. Great videos, great demos. Subbed.
31:50 I remembered Hello Again by the Cars immediately
26:40 Am I in a dream? Loved that performance, the reverb fits so well!
I recognise a lot of these sounds from Amiga modules too! Of course, stuff like the bass and choirs came from the CMI originally, but the one guitar.. I can't remember it from the CMI IIX sample library (which is free to download and public domain if people only want the sounds!)
BELL3 reminds me of the 'Vibraphone' from the D-50, btw. I wonder if it was used as a base?
ooh, you're right, that was a pretty sweet segment, now that you made me listen to it again.
people will be wanting a link to that library, how are you supposed to play it?
the orchestral hit from the movie "the magnificent seven"
17:03 Sound link Playstation Intro?
Cool demo - thanks! I even have an original Fairlight CMI colour brochure. Maybe its time to try a demo vst since the real deal is out of the question :)
All this sounds where later converted to the Comodore AMIGA and where used over and over for Game music and in the Demo scene.
The pitched down EEERRRY1 sample is what Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes used on the beginning of Tiger Tiger, off the Seven and Ragged Tiger album. In fact you almost played the same notes.
wow, interesting tidbit!
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Wasn't the Fairlight used extensively in Jane Child's "Don't Wanna Fall In Love?" Man that was an amazing track. I don't know that I've ever heard anyone try to recreate that? A Challenge!
That song is wicked
Yes it was. She used it for every song on the album except for one.
I stayed to the end I get lost in the sounds just like you LOL !!!
amazing, love hearing when people make it through these long ones
27:24 I believe that sample used also Jean Michel Jarre on his older albums
So good! One of most important synths. They could release a Synclavier plugin too.
like this one?
www.arturia.com/synclavier-v/overview
:)
Wow! I didn't see this. Really nice. I'm going to know more about the plugin. Thanks! :)
I'm confused, Arturia tutorial vids say they left Page R out since people would be using their DAW for that instead.
Really fun. Thank you. Looks like a winner to me. Oldskool and exhibiting feelings of nostalgia. That is what we like Woody. Can you do a review on the newly released JV1080 VA Synth from the Roland Cloud? This seems to be a winner too! Cheerio!!
thanks for the comment rob, we were discussing the jv over on my fb page, yeah, it would be fun to try, cheers
thanks man
I bought the whole Arturia V pack and it’s all your fault! Well, not entirely but you helped push me over the edge with your DX7 video
congrats! any other instrument you think i should check out in particular?
Woody Piano Shack the Jupiter! It looks interesting. It’s what I originally was looking at last year from Arturia. I got the free version but moved on at the time. When I saw the dx7 available I decided to pull the trigger on the whole collection. I honestly haven’t looked into much of the others so anything you cover would be cool.
For non-Arturia stuff have you played the TAL-UN-O LX that mimics the Roland Juno 106? It’s pretty stellar.
Oh and the prophet would be awesome as well.
Nice one
groovy dude!