Holy shit, Mercy Street is like a totally different song with my current primary system.
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Holy shit, Mercy Street is like a totally different song with my current primary system.
It’s funny how you can hear the sound quality limitations of the Fairlight.
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@octothorpe You say ‘limitations’, I say glorious punchy grit.
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@jon_alper oh totally… I say let it be true to itself. Lean into it.
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@octothorpe I was being a bit silly but, for example, the drone on Rhythm Of The Heat is some glorious ’bad digital grit’ that really helps the song.
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@jon_alper @octothorpe From what I can find, looks like he still had a II or maybe a IIX at that point. Still limited to 8 bits (but 32KHz if it was a IIX). The III was out by then, but he didn't get one until after finishing So.
I too love the short, low bitrate squonk.
Fairlight CMI Series III - Genesis: A Gear Revelation Wiki
The Fairlight CMI Series III is a sampling synthesizer & audio workstation released in 1985. It had an improved sampling rate of 16-bit sampling with a maximum sample...
Genesis: A Gear Revelation Wiki (genesisgearrevelation.miraheze.org)
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CM Harringtonreplied to 💀Maggot McFear💀 last edited by [email protected]
@tankgrrl @jon_alper I have the So documentary and it’s featured in part of it (in the cottage in Somerset), including the UI. He was using the Fairlight prior to So (IIRC), so it’s possible he went from a I(xx) to the III.
