Fairlight CMI
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For other uses, see Fairlight (disambiguation).
The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, sampler, and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight.[5][6][7] It was based on a commercial licence of the Qasar M8 developed by Tony Furse of Creative Strategies in Sydney, Australia. It was one of the earliest music workstations with an embedded sampler and is credited for coining the term sampling in music. It rose to prominence in the early 1980s and competed with the Synclavier from New England Digital.
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Fairlight CMI | |
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Manufacturer | Fairlight |
Dates | 1979–1989, 2011–present |
Price | £ 15,000[2]–112,000[3] |
Technical specifications | |
Polyphony | 8–16 voices |
Timbrality | Multitimbral |
LFO | for vibrato[4] |
Synthesis type | Additive synthesis Sampling (8 bit @ 16 kHz – 16 bit @ 100 kHz), waveform editing/drawing, additive resynthesis (FFT) |
Filter | low-pass for anti-aliasing[4] |
Input/output | |
Keyboard | 73 keys non-weighted, velocity sensitive. Option: slave keyboard[4] |
Left-hand control | 3 sliders, 2 buttons, numeric keypad (right side)[4] |
External control | Computer keyboard Light pen CV/Gate (option, CMI II~) MIDI • SMPTE (CMI IIx~) |
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