More news on The Fairlight Legacy Refill!

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. Coming soon will be a supplementary Refill called Fairlight Supremacy, which will contain, in the main, more programs for the Legacy collection of samples, plus a bunch of demo patches for you to try, and there are plans to keep updating this particular refill, including the addition of user patches, so that the overall life of your Fairlight refill will be much longer and much more fulfilling.

After this conversation, Patrick very kindly let me have a play with some patches and I have to say that on these initial first plays, this stuff is top notch!! 🙂

And after flicking through a list of all the stuff available in the Legacy collection, I can barely contain myself. This has to be bought and bought VERY soon!!

Regular readers of this blog will know my obsession on all things Fairlight. You will know how long I have craved for a properly representative library to appear. You will know that until now, all we have had are some collections of sounds on a couple of VSTi’s (Cult Sampler & Nostalgia) and the infamous Digital Domain/Pro-Rec audio sample CD. Save for a few patches here and there, that’s all we’ve ever really had. But this library, and the 5 months of work Patrick has put in, is the answer to all our Fairlight geeky prayers!

At last, we have a definitive collection of a world changing library & instrument. The Fairlight isn’t just a primitive synth/sampler. It is a classic instrument, equal to a Stradivarius or Bosendorfer. Sure, there are other violins, other piano’s, but some are so unique, so individual and so prized. The Fairlight is such an instrument. It is rare. It’s sounds cannot and have not ever been matched. Yes, modern technology can give us more bits and MHz, but the beauty of the Fairlight wasn’t just it’s 8 bit grunginess, or the happy accidents of software programming. It was also in what it did and when it did it when nothing else was doing that.

No sample library will EVER fully capture the true sound and essence of the Fairlight, but trust me on this one thing: Patrick Fridh’s Fairlight Legacy Library is the closest anyone has ever come. The only thing that will beat it is Peter Vogel’s forthcoming Fairlight CMI 30A. But that is $18,935 more expensive than this library 😉

Here is a new video, posted by Patrick, with more demos and some background info. It is my intention that upon acquisition of this library, I will run a series of features and articles on it right here on this blog, so bookmark me now! 🙂 Buy the Refill now HERE.