I’ve waited a whole lifetime to be able to announce the release of a new Fairlight…. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 13, 2011 The Legend Returns Fairlight CMI-30A Prototype to be Revealed At NAMM · Production prototype of the Fairlight CMI 30th Anniversary Edition debuts tomorrow at NAMM · $20,000 ‘vintage sampler’ faithfully recreates the look [...]

It’s been a mad few weeks for me in Reason land!! Firstly, I got my hands on Reason 5 and Record 1.5, which I have slowly been exploring and I hope to do a more in depth analysis of it for you from my perspective soon. The one thing it HAS done is show my [...]

Blimey, when Steve get’s stuck in, he gets stuck in! Hot on the heels of the String Synth package comes updated Kontakt versions of two of my all time favourite HS libraries, Vintage Samplers & Newtron Bomb. Vintage Samplers Tron Boys Choir Tron Brass Tron Choir Tron Flute Tron Mixed Strings Tron Violins Tron Watcher [...]

As mentioned in my last post, Patrick Fridh was planning on releasing a free Refill to demo his Fairlight Legacy Refill Library as well as add to the already extensive package that the Legacy Refill provides. This Refill is called Fairlight Supremacy and is available NOW!! This contains a good selection of demo patches as [...]

Ok, as some of you may have seen, the creator of the Fairlight Legacy Refill posted a comment on my original post about his work and so I took the opportunity to get in touch Patrick Fridh is a very nice man indeed and we had a brief conversation about his plans for the library. [...]

Hot on the heels of the press release, Peter Vogel has now brought the full website online with much more detail about the forthcoming Fairlight CMI 30A. Fairlight Instruments I’m very honoured to have a link on the links page of the site, directing visitors to my Spotify playlist, “All The Fun Of The Fairlight” [...]

This email received this morning in to the Fairlight Yahoo Users Group from Peter Vogel… We’re hoping to have some more detailed specs this week, however I can answer a few questions in general terms. The CC-1 can perform very complex algorithms and lots of them, with almost no latency. So yes, we are modelling [...]

This just in from Peter Vogel via Nick @ Sonicstate.com… The 30A will look like and perform like the original CMI, although the mainframe will be much lighter for portability. The look and feel of the user interface will also be similar to the original, with retro green on black graphics like the original. A [...]

I just got sent the following link by my good friend, Steve Howell…. http://www.fairlightinstruments.com./ It shows the following…. THE NEXT GENERATION Peter Vogel with his first baby, the CMI, in 1979 …and his new baby, Jasmine, in 2009. The Fairlight keyboard, signed by the who’s who of 80s music,which sold at auction for $100,000 in [...]