governorgilf (October 9, 2008 at 5:30 am)

This is really an interesting piece. I know the stuff featured here is archaic now, but I had no idea that this technology was available as far back as 1983. It probably has put some musicians out of work, but it's certainly helped me, as I use sequencing in my shows and I don't have to pay a keyboardist, horns, percussion, etc. Less mouths to feed is a good thing when you're a working musician.

youarelackluster (September 27, 2008 at 10:05 pm)

yeah, but why dont most of those vst"samplers" actually sample from audio inputs? its so ridiculous. morgana seems to sample from inputs sure, but surely there should be way more than that?

jhanalog (September 25, 2008 at 7:14 am)

thats nice, my iPhone can do all that now !!!

producermattpop (September 24, 2008 at 8:16 pm)

For my fellow sound-freaks: my 2008 dance mix of Moments In Love by Art Of Noise, is basically my homage to the Fairlight ARR1preset (the breathy voice-like sound you hear on that record). I use original Fairlight samples to play a nice solo part with it. If you want to check it out - and my other tracks - simply look for the Matt Mix! Matt Pop.

Snotra (September 16, 2008 at 10:57 am)

I have a Casio that can do that.

Salmagundiii (September 14, 2008 at 12:57 am)

The wonders of youtube never cease. Thanks for posting this!

jhanalog (September 2, 2008 at 2:02 am)

That was me working as the engineer and doing the sampling demonstration. All the serious sampling was done as multi- samples across the keyboard. This was just a demo for NBC of the very new concept of sampling. I'm glad you liked this post. Check out my videos of Bob Moog and the Fairlight.

feelie75 (August 16, 2008 at 6:40 am)

it's interesting that he only sampled 1 note from the sax. I always sampled 1 note from about 3 different octaves because the timbre changes so much when you get into the lower or higher registers. Maybe that idea came later than this.At any rate, awesome post, thanks!

synthforhire (August 15, 2008 at 6:06 am)

Funny how they never mentioned the name of the movie Emerson was scoring; pretty sure it's "Nighthawks". The series II Fairlight was 8 bits; series IIx was 8 bits plus companders added for noise reduction; series III was 16 bits.

HammondB200 (August 4, 2008 at 7:59 pm)

"people always want to hear the real live instrument play, and see a person actually perform it" wow, that unfolded quite nasty didn't it Keith? thank you for helping introducing some crap called: techno/house/disco/club