Peter Vogel’s Fairlight Audio Archives

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Peter Vogel’s Fairlight Audio Archives

The legendary Peter Vogel, co-creator of the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument, has just uploaded some excellent audio files to his website for all of us to enjoy.

In Peter’s own words…

“Here is a collection of audio material including Fairlight demos, radio interviews and CMI pieces from the eighties. There are even a couple of recordings from the Fairlight CMI’s predecessor, the Qasar M8, designed by Tony Furse. The M8 did not use sampling, the sounds were generated by additive Fourier synthesis.

Some of the pieces are of unknown origin, or have little information. If you recognise anything and can add some detail, please email me.”

There is some awesome stuff in here, so eternal thanks to Peter for this gift :o)

Other Fairlight stuff from Peter can be found here.