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 [...]

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 [...]

Two things are stopping me buying this. One, it’s in Australia. Two, I don’t have the necessary $7,950 AUD (£5,124). That said, this superb example of a CMI IIx has been fully restored by the legend that is Peter Wielk of Horizontal Productions in Australia. Peter has been working on Fairlights since his days working [...]

Here is the Series III Fairlight CMI, formerly owned by the Pet Shop Boys, in situ at it’s current home. This is the same SIII as featured in this post and sadly (for me), it’s looking like it will sell before I get down there to take video, pics and have a fiddle. However, the [...]

So there I was, like I am now, sat at my PC in my studio one Saturday night when I noticed some posts from my friend Rich Hilton. He’d been uploading some pictures of himself outside the Sydney Opera House and other such landmarks whilst on tour with Chic. Lovely, I thought and then, something [...]

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I have no shame in declaring my deep love for Peter Vogel, co-inventor of the Fairlight CMI and present owner of Fairlight instruments and also of English musician extraordinaire, Thomas Dolby, who back in the day was one of the CMI’s biggest fans and most talented users. Currently, Peter is deep in the thick of [...]

Peter Vogel has just announced that Fairlight Instrument’s General Manager, Graeme Renaud, is in Anaheim, CA during NAMM week. Whilst they’re not exhibiting at the show itself, Graeme will be happy to demonstrate the CMI 30A outside of the show Here’s Peter’s post from the Fairlight Instruments Facebook presence… Our General Manager Graeme Renaud has [...]

Announced today via this press release… Sampler pioneer Fairlight Instruments has teamed up with Variety, the Children’s Charity to create a very 21st Century fundraiser. iGrowUP is an entertaining new app for iPhone and iPad. It costs less than the price of a cup of coffee and is a fantastic last minute Christmas gift for [...]

A sneak preview of the progress being made by Peter Vogel and the team in Sydney with the production of the limited edition CMI 30A’s. In the video we see PCB’s being prepared and baked as well as cases and housings arriving at the powder coating factory, soon to emerge the other side in classic [...]