Introducing Fairlight CMI Legacy II+ (reason refill)

YouTube via bitleyTM | February 07, 2011 |

"Introducing Fairlight CMI Legacy MKII+. Fairlight CMI Legacy MKII+ marks the introduction of a new release in the series of Fairlight refills, having been continously developed and updated for about a year and a half. Comparing the size of this new version with the original, it's pretty evident that lots has happened during this time. Six times larger than the original 400 Mb Fairlight CMI Legacy, introduced in April 2010, the new refill also comes with some stunning new concepts.

Technically speaking what we now have here is a Reason 4 and 5 compatible refill, loaded with no less than 2 304 instrument patches; 1 014 NNXT patches, 622 Combinator patches, over 190 ReDrum drum kits and much, much more.

Main news. All instruments are now divided into virtual machines. This is highly inspired by Elektron's Machinedrum & Monomachine grooveboxes. The Combinator graphics are brand new and unique for each machine / instrument. These have been designed with creative input and assistance from Kangebo Design in Stockholm, Sweden. All of the patches in the refill are named according to these instrument types, to make it easier to find the right sound when producing music.

These are some of the new instruments / machines in the refill; 4 UPETEUR. Analog Compuphonic Synth. AIRBASS. The total module for bass sounds. CHROME. Analog and chord synth module. DIG IT ALL. Digital synths. FAIRVOX. Fairlight Voices. ILLTURN 80R. Alternating patches. MEAN MACHINE. Edge and grit. ORLANDO. Analog JX Synths. P5. Analog synthesizer. THE LEGACY. CMI taken to new levels. THE ORCH. Orchestral with a twist. TWEEDLE. Keyboard sounds. UNDERCOVER. Drums, percussion and FX. XYLO 4N. Mallets. Last but not least; ZIGNATURE PATCHEZ.
Signature patches provided by DrLoop, Abstract Assasinator and EditEd4TV.

Background. Fairlight CMI was introduced in 1979 and it was the first ever keyboard instrument with digital sampling, ie recording of sounds and storing those in a computer-like fashion. The Fairlight systems of those days cost about 545 000 SEK; roughly 2 MSEK by today's value (about $350,000). The extremely high price combined with the fact that only highly successfull acts got to use it (like Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Keith Emerson, Howard Jones and many others) helped form a myth around the instrument. When I got the chance to use some original recordings directly from a Fairlight IIx I was instantly turned on by the idea of building a refill, since these sounds still are highly looked after. I contacted Fairlight in Australia and got a thumbs up about the project, and this has helped me build and maintain what today is the world's largest collection of Fairlight recordings. This is all available for Reason!

File size: 1,7 Gb (packed) or 2,49 Gb before packed with ReFill Packer.

To find out more and to order the refill, please visit http://bitley.laconicsounds.net - direct link http://bitley.laconicsounds.net/refil..."

"The Magic White Machine" by ThinkingMachine and Bitley™

YouTube via bitleyTM | August 03, 2010

"A vast amount of demo songs were made for the Fairlight refills, and suddenly an assisting programmer for the Combinator sounds - mr ThinkingMachine - sent back one of the demo tracks - with vocals. A very creative input that's now been salted and peppered with a little imagery.

The whole idea with this is that we basically rescued the amazing original sound library from the Fairlight II system and added much more things so it could become a series of ultra cool refills for Reason.

More formats are our next challenge.

Every single sound in this demo is from the Fairlight CMI Legacy & Supremacy refills. The vocals were added with Propellerhead's Record."

Fairlight CMI, Roland JX10, Prophet 5, Roland D-50 & much more

YouTube via bitleyTM | July 26, 2010

"A little demo playing through the refills produced until now. Including a short demo (a longer is available on my profile) of the just released "The Prophet" refill including all of the Prophet 5 factory patches, sampled from a rev 3.2 Prophet 5. Also showcasing some of the free refills that are included with the commercial ones as nice little extras."
http://bitley.laconicsounds.net/

Introducing a new ReFill - this time we're going for analog!

YouTube via bitleyTM | July 07, 2010

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The analog synth freaks. The ones who doesn't change things. The ones who like them the way they were... :) Here's the Prophet 5. Revision 3.2. Sampled and neatly packaged into a Reason 4 ReFill. Due for release July 20 2010."

JV-1080 Noodling - "Don Solaris"

Published on May 10, 2016 bitleyTM

"Playing with an EPS 16+ sequencer pattern controlling 8 midi tracks in a JV-1080 using the new and pretty nifty Don Solaris soundset - link below - as well as a simple drumkit from the Roland Dance expansion JV card simply changing 'patterns' by transposing the part (regular part, not a drum part but there are kits also among the instrument patches on that card). Patches tried out here are for instance SH101 Lead, JV80 D.Bass, 24 db Bass, TransistBass, AcidLine, Prophet VS, ESQ1 sweeps, etc. The EPS / ASR sequencer is very easy to use and kind of cool. 'Create instrument' on the EPS and set midi channel, repeat until all 8 slots are loaded. Can also play sampler presets together with midi if you create layers, for instance.

Don Solaris 1080 soundset (also 2080, XP30/50/60 etc)
http://www.donsolaris.com/?page_id=865

For those of you new into this the 1080 and the EPS 16+ were two of the most popular synth instruments in the mid 90's... that's how old they are; they cost peanuts today but still deliver! Great bargains!"

Yellow Orange (Synth Jam) Roland XP80 with RPS

Published on Aug 25, 2019 bitleyTM

"I finally learned how to use the Roland XP80's built in RPS (Realtime Pattern Sequencer) functionality so here I am triggering four sequences on the fly; two drum patterns, two simple background synths, a baseline. Jamming on top of this with two pad sounds. RPS is actually a cool function which kind of brought an Ableton vibe to this "JV-1080 with keyboard" about four years before Live was released. Roland is a company making synthesizers — often adding an extra edge over the competition. (XP30, 50, 60, 80 and JV-1010, 1080, 2080 are similar & fully compatible instruments from about 1994-1998, later replaced by the Fantom series). The movie was edited with MovieMator Pro. Quite cool — but the rendering / processing took almost 20 hours so it was the slowest Mac application I ever tried."

XXL

YouTube Uploaded by bitleyTM on Jun 30, 2011

"Introducing the new Fairlight XXL refill for Reason 5."

JDXA Noodling Followup. Kawaily. Kayfourly. Digitally yours.

Published on Jun 28, 2019 bitleyTM

"Going back in time to the 1889 acoustic piano... here's forward a 100 years to the 1989... secret box of synthesis powers you never knew!"

Upcoming ReFill: Bitley Supersonic

YouTube via bitleyTM | August 31, 2010

"The Supersonic ReFill is my largest ReFill production this far, including all of the Fairlight CMI Legacy & Supremacy sounds, the Orlando JX10 and The Prophet refills; the DaBeat refill, brand new recordings of analog and digital gear and even acoustic recordings. Supersonic is scheduled for relase before November, 2010, and will cost $199."

Reason Martyn Ware Fairlight Forum Song Contest

YouTube Uploaded by bitleyTM on Nov 17, 2011

"This is a demo track using the Bitley DeLight refill. It tells you about the current, on-going (as of November 18, 2011) Propellerhead Users Forum song contest. The participating track will be listened to and a winning track will be picked by Martyn Ware (BEF, Human League, Heaven 17 & more) by December 2011.

Demo track (c) by Patrick Fridh Aka Bitley 2011 using Reason and the DeLight refill only."

Sounds of the Korg Lambda

Published on May 4, 2016 bitleyTM

"Our multi-sampled version of the Lambda is called Poly X3M, and we even upgraded this to 'Platinum' status by including some of the sounds from our other libraries to really make it FAT and inspiring. This is a Reason refill for Reason 7 and 8. More info: http://bitley.laconicsounds.net - thank you for watching!"

'The Prophet' for Reason

Published on Apr 25, 2016 bitleyTM

"Multi-sampled Prophet 5 soundbank for Propellerhead Reason 4 and up. Drums in the demo from our DaBeat refill. Both reintroduced now!

More info: http://bitley.laconicsounds.net"

Fairlight NNXT

Published on Jul 27, 2014 bitleyTM

"A little cute demo for the brand new Fairlight NNXT refill (2014) which is a fantastic 120 Mb sound bank for Reason 7.

http://bitley.laconicsounds.net

There has been a request for a more simple, scaled down and refined version, and this has now been produced. Fairlight NNXT builds upon the original Fairlight CMI documentation for revision 1.3 from Fairlight Instruments (included) which describes the 32 factory disks. All disks are included here and the refill contains 350 Fairlight CMI NNXT sounds for Reason 7. The refill also contains all of the Subtractor, Thor and Malström sounds from the bigger versions, as well as a couple of bonus "disks" with Bitley sounds, Art Of Noise sounds and Vince Clarke sounds. The sounds are sorted and named exactly as on the 32 original Fairlight CMI disks. The file size is just below 120 Mb."

Famous Fairlight Sounds Part 1

YouTube via bitleyTM — April 12, 2010 — "Demoing some of the (currently) 597 NNXT patches available in the refill, here's a few clips I'd like to know if you can recognize."

JDXA Yaz Noodling

Published on Sep 1, 2015 bitleyTM

"A little more JD-XA 'noodling' from me; this time I'd like to show you just 10 minutes worth of patch tweaking inspired by Yazoo's classic Walk Away From Love."

Roland JD-XAs on eBay

The Fairlight library for Reason

YouTube via bitleyTM
"Five months in the making, my new Refill "Fairlight CMI Legacy" is now available from PowerFX.com. All music examples and sound programming by Patrick Fridh Aka Bitley™."

Update via BITLEY™ in the comments:
"That was actually a mistake of mine. The Fairlight is sampled at 16/44.1 but the rest is 24 bit / 44.1 khz. It doesn't have to be so amazing in this case either since the Fairlight IIx was an 8 bit machine. All you need to know is that it's perfectly recorded. ;)"

Oberheim Matrix 6 Multitrack

Published on Mar 25, 2019 bitleyTM

"The wonderful sounds of the Oberheim Matrix 6 synthesizer, here in one of my compositions from 2015"

The Mini Fairlight refill

YouTube via bitleyTM — April 15, 2010 — "Giving you a small slice of the huge and very popular Fairlight CMI Legacy refill, the De Light refill gives you 60 great sounds - with unique NNXT & Combinator patches - and the bassdrums, snares and toms from the mythical giant of past hi class studios - the Fairlight IIx."

Update via BITLEY™ the comments:
"The webpage for this refill is here: http://bitley.laconicsounds.net/delight.html - and the download process is tried, tested and verified."

A Roland JX8P "PWM" attempt (full settings included)

Published on Jun 29, 2014 bitleyTM·19 videos

"Tweaking away on the iPad with the iPG800 app [iTunes], I ended up on a sound very similar to PWM modulation even though the JX8P does not have a dedicated PW / PWM like its siblings Juno 60, Juno 2, Jupiter 6, Jupiter 8 etc.

Feel free to copy the parameter settings. Important here are DCO 1 LFO depth, DCO 2 cross modulation settings, LFO rate. Once you have set that you can play with filter, tune, envelope and chorus settings. What you see programmed here is exactly what is played, straight out from the JX8P.

The JX-8P is a 6-voice analog synthesizer from 1985."

A build-up arrangement using Fairlight

Published on Mar 9, 2014 bitleyTM·42 videos

"Build up using Fairlight soundbanks from Bitley™ - http://bitley.laconicsounds.net"

Patrick Fridh via Bitley Sounds & Refills on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge