Fairlight Legacy Refill becomes officially approved by Fairlight!
Brilliant news for Patrick. Here’s what he has to say at his website…(where you can also find the latest version of Supremacy (v1.10) and some other great stuff)
As of today, April 7, 2010, I have now gotten very positive signals from both Fairlight.au and Fairlight Instruments regarding the refill. Fairlight AU works with post-production digital tools and Fairlight Instruments, run by Peter Vogel (one of the Fairlight CMI inventors and founders of the original Fairlight company) are currently developing a new CMI, something which I find totally amazing. Anyway; what all this means is that I now safely can say that the refill is officially approved by Fairlight. This is a huge relief – and it also means a bright future is to come for the refill. Fairlight.au supports Reason integration with its computer-like studio gear and they may use the refill for demo purposes. Fairlight Instruments on their part sees the refill as a good way of spreading knowledge about the Fairlight. Of course, the refill will never replace a real CMI, whether new or antique – Reason can’t sample, it can’t do FFT analysis (which is real hardcore and still to this day a Fairlight-only feature) – but: it can bring you a little bit of the Fairlight sound… if you are using the Legacy refill. 🙂
Superb news!! “QDOS” to Patrick 😉
I have to say that I whole heartedly applaud this reaction from Fairlight. Many companies would’ve slammed the door shut in Patrick’s face, but they have clearly seen that stuff like this can only serve their purpose much better by supporting it and using it to spread the name and sound of the Fairlight instrument. It is brilliant promotion and testament to the very communal and ethical business practices that people like Peter Vogel have. Hats off to them! 🙂
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