images via this auction"Fairlight Series III MFX 3 Hard Disk recording system. Its a 24 channel analog and digital, 16 bit system.
Though it was built in the early 90s (approx 1992) its quality, reliability and famous ease of editing means these units are still in use in major studios all over the world. This is an extremely rare system.. and cost around $80,000 new. It was recently decomissioned from a high end film/tv post production facility here in Melbourne.
This one is MFX 3, operating system 12.3.27.
OS 12 was the last revision that was CMI capable, meaning that with the correct cards you can turn this into a CMI machine. Many of the CMI system cards are already present, but the channel, CMI I/O, and WRAM cards are not. The console/keyboard can switch between MFX and CMI mode when the correct software and hardware is installed, as shown in the photos. I had plans to do this, but don't have the time or know how to track down the relevant cards/software and set up the system. For a person with relevant Fairlight experience this could make a seriously powerful CMI machine, or companion/expansion to a Series III CMI.
Included is:
Series III Card Cage
MFX I/O Unit
MFX Console/Keyboard
External SCSI Hard Drive
2x digital Tape Storage Devices
All interconnecting cables.
Installed cards are:6 x ESPDCC Rev 1.5 (for a total of 24 digital and analog I/O)
ESP96K
ESPSYN Rev 2.10
Q133 Rev 9.2
Q209 Rev 8.1
Q356 Rev 2A
ESPCG3 Colour Graphics.
Q007 REv 1A.1
CMI41 Rev 2.4
CMI28 Rev 5.1
ESPTS1 Rev 3.2T
Please see this page for reference"
But does it come autographed by Kate Bush? The word "Fairlight" still sends shivers down my spine, even though my MacBook is probably more powerful.
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