To celebrate the release of the latest version of the CMI App from Peter Vogel Instruments, which includes support for the increasingly popular Audiobus system on iOS, Peter and his cohorts have cooked up a competition where the winner can take away a cash prize of $1000 AUD!! Here’s the skinny… “To celebrate the release [...]

Every now and again, eBay throws up some lovely little gems, and if these are anything to go by, these are rather tasty, even more so if they still work and you have either a Fairlight CMI IIx or PPG Waveterm on which to read them. The seller has the following items for sale… eBay [...]

We all have them. Those albums that signpost our lives. I guess for me, ‘So’ was the signpost at which I turned 16, left school, fell in love properly for the first time, lost my virginity, became incredibly unsettled at home, got a job and started to become an independent human being. It was a [...]

I think it’s fair to say that, of all the digital, sampling behemoths of the late 70s and early 80s, the New England Digital Synclavier was probably the biggest, most expensive, most desirable of all. Why? Well, it was, arguably, far superior sonically than its competitors and had a far higher level of specification in [...]

A good friend of ours, one Peter Wielk of Horizontal Productions, is selling this very rare, fully specc’d Series III Fairlight. This was Peter’s own machine until he replaced it with a rack mounted variant which he now houses under his stairs. If you can muster $11,750 AUD plus shipping, you could own one of [...]

Makers of the immense and superb Fairlight Platinum ReFill for Reason, Bitley™, have reintroduced some of their smaller products, along with trimmed down versions of the flagship Fairlight Platinum product in a bid to help users pick and choose the sounds the need. Here’s the new product catalogue, along with their prices: REASON REFILLS RE [...]

I’ve always thought that E-MU‘s finest moment was when they decided to call their first sampler the Emulator. Not only does it encompass the company name, it is descriptively accurate of what the machine does. The name lives on to this day, albeit in the pretty much forgotten Emulator X3 software sampler. I own Emulator [...]

This statement was released by Fairlight Instruments Pty this morning… “A facelift for Fairlight Instruments Fairlight Instruments Pty Ltd is changing its name in anticipation of the release of some exciting new products. The new name, Peter Vogel Instruments, reflects the company’s transition from building on the past to inventing the future. I am delighted [...]

It wasn’t that long ago that people like me, people with a passion for vintage samplers such as the Fairlight, Synclavier, Emulator, WaveFrame, et al, had very little to go on when it came to possessing some of those sounds that we had grown up with, to use in our music. It was a strange [...]

After a slight delay in proceedings, UVI’s latest offering, Darklight IIx is with us. Here are some pictures, videos and audio demos for you to chew over for now. Expect a full blown review in the next few days. I’ve been privileged to have been on the beta test team for this one and can [...]