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"Offered for sale is a very rare fully functional vintage rack-mount Fairlight CMI III computerised musical instrument workstation in excellent condition. Also fitted is Fairlight MFX2 capability, which adds a 24 track direct to disc recorder / editor. The system is a late model, and as such has the latest and best in technical innovations, whilst still retaining the classic legendary sound of the CMI.
The system has 16 voices, 16 Mbytes RAM, colour graphics card, digital sampler and 24 output router. It also comes with the later MFX alpha-numeric keyboard, and a proper weighted action music keyboard. A 15” LCD screen (not the one illustrated) is included. There are two 4 Gbyte hard discs, one empty for disc recording, and one full of the following libraries:
Complete Fairlight library, Prosonus Strings, Brass, Percussion, Sound Genesis strings, plus many libraries collected over the last 20 years dealing with top producers and musicians. These include libraries from: Pet Shop Boys, Trevor Horn, Hans Zimmer, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Art of Noise and many, many others. The complete Fairlight IIX library is also included.
The system will be serviced, have a full set of manuals (including a very rare service manual), all leads, latest firmware, and come with 3 months warranty. It is currently in an 18U rack, but can be dismantled for ease of shipment. In this case each module is professionally packed by first wrapping the part in polythene, placing it in a larger container which is filled with liquid foam (see photo). Once set, this provides superb protection.
Please note you’ll see other Fairlight systems advertised on ebay, and many will less expensive. However, do some research before you buy. What may look like a bargain might not look so appealing when its obsolete parts finally give up. I have been involved in re-building Fairlight CMIs for over 25 years, and have sold and supported well over 30 of these classic samplers. I am also proud of my 100% positive ebay feedback with over 120 transactions, which I hope reflects my honest and straight forward dealings. I have also described this system as accurately as possible. However, please feel free to ask any questions, or if you’re passing through Sydney, you would be very welcome to have an extensive demonstration."
via Joel.
Very difficult to work with 16 mb in a mfx2 if you need sampler and the hard disc recorder working together.
ReplyDeleteIt should have 32mb
Nice piece of synth history, but how useful is it in regards to actual production these days? Ten grand's worth of useful, I mean?
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ReplyDeleteI thought it used a hard drive along with RAM for the MFX? The newer MFX systems recorded 24 tracks to a single HD.
Yeah it's hard to say how useful it would be, $ value and all that. I know if I had it I'd use it. ^_^
The disc recorder take 16 mb of the ram for buffering correctly the 24 tracks. You just have no ram left for the sampler.
ReplyDeleteThis mfx is just very limited . 24mb is the very minimum to work.
32mb is not too much.
I don' t see the famous DSP96K card. It allows timestretching and some other great fx. Very precious for any sound design or editing.
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ReplyDeletethe only DTD with VCF and VCA in the world.
ReplyDeleteLike analog tape but way better dynamic
Ah okay, I see. I've only read up a bit online, anyone used one?
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