Hi All,

I thought I'd share a quick thing I was looking at today.  I was
listening to Art of Noise's "Moments in Love" and their album "Who's
afraid of the Art of Noise?" this weekend and spent some time reading
about the Fairlight CMI.  I got pretty fascinated by it (and am still
reading up on it) and I found that someone had converted the original
samples to WAV files:

http://www.vintagesynth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=61626

The samples were generated at 32k SR, but the originals were
internally 15k or so, meaning the samples are pitched an octave higher
than original.  Also, in looking at this Fairlight Sound database:

http://www.nattvard.com/iix/database.php

It mentions that the base frequency for Fairlight samples is A3.
Given that, I did a quick CSD using A4 as a base frequency to divide a
desired frequency to get the rate at which to play the samples with
loscil3.

I've attached a CSD file that plays a little bit of "Moments in Love"
using the ARR1.WAV (choral sound) and ORCH5.WAV (orchestra stab)
samples from the first link above.  Certainly a bit more work
necessary to get things more like the original, but I thought I'd
share what I put together so far.

Cheers!
steven

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Cool! nice example of the sounds and beautiful simple method to play with 
them!
tarmo

On Wednesday 16 November 2016 16:59:43 you wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I thought I'd share a quick thing I was looking at today.  I was
> listening to Art of Noise's "Moments in Love" and their album "Who's
> afraid of the Art of Noise?" this weekend and spent some time reading
> about the Fairlight CMI.  I got pretty fascinated by it (and am still
> reading up on it) and I found that someone had converted the original
> samples to WAV files:
> 
> http://www.vintagesynth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=61626
> 
> The samples were generated at 32k SR, but the originals were
> internally 15k or so, meaning the samples are pitched an octave higher
> than original.  Also, in looking at this Fairlight Sound database:
> 
> http://www.nattvard.com/iix/database.php
> 
> It mentions that the base frequency for Fairlight samples is A3.
> Given that, I did a quick CSD using A4 as a base frequency to divide a
> desired frequency to get the rate at which to play the samples with
> loscil3.
> 
> I've attached a CSD file that plays a little bit of "Moments in Love"
> using the ARR1.WAV (choral sound) and ORCH5.WAV (orchestra stab)
> samples from the first link above.  Certainly a bit more work
> necessary to get things more like the original, but I thought I'd
> share what I put together so far.
> 
> Cheers!
> steven
> 
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Glad you all found it interseting!  The material I'm reading about the
Fairlight is really inspiring (I'm still wondering how something like
the Page R sequencer might look like within Blue...).  While I've
never been one to use samples very much, I'm finding it a bit more
interesting lately, and the sounds of the Fairlight are so very
familiar. I suppose I'm experiencing some nostalgia at the moment
myself right now. :)

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:14 PM, thorin kerr  wrote:
> Oh nostalgia. I had a chance to play with a couple of Fairlights once. The
> enormous whirring hard-drives. The light-pen green screen. The 8 bit
> samples. They were truly ahead of their time.
>
> Thanks Steven.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Steven Yi  wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I thought I'd share a quick thing I was looking at today.  I was
>> listening to Art of Noise's "Moments in Love" and their album "Who's
>> afraid of the Art of Noise?" this weekend and spent some time reading
>> about the Fairlight CMI.  I got pretty fascinated by it (and am still
>> reading up on it) and I found that someone had converted the original
>> samples to WAV files:
>>
>> http://www.vintagesynth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=61626
>>
>> The samples were generated at 32k SR, but the originals were
>> internally 15k or so, meaning the samples are pitched an octave higher
>> than original.  Also, in looking at this Fairlight Sound database:
>>
>> http://www.nattvard.com/iix/database.php
>>
>> It mentions that the base frequency for Fairlight samples is A3.
>> Given that, I did a quick CSD using A4 as a base frequency to divide a
>> desired frequency to get the rate at which to play the samples with
>> loscil3.
>>
>> I've attached a CSD file that plays a little bit of "Moments in Love"
>> using the ARR1.WAV (choral sound) and ORCH5.WAV (orchestra stab)
>> samples from the first link above.  Certainly a bit more work
>> necessary to get things more like the original, but I thought I'd
>> share what I put together so far.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> steven
>>
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Hi Steven,

Thank you very much, both for csd file and links, everything is very
nice. My wife has immediately recognized the music... :-)

Ciao


fdsdb


Il giorno mer, 16/11/2016 alle 16.59 -0500, Steven Yi ha scritto:
> Hi All,
> 
> I thought I'd share a quick thing I was looking at today.  I was
> listening to Art of Noise's "Moments in Love" and their album "Who's
> afraid of the Art of Noise?" this weekend and spent some time reading
> about the Fairlight CMI.  I got pretty fascinated by it (and am still
> reading up on it) and I found that someone had converted the original
> samples to WAV files:
> 
> http://www.vintagesynth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=61626
> 
> The samples were generated at 32k SR, but the originals were
> internally 15k or so, meaning the samples are pitched an octave higher
> than original.  Also, in looking at this Fairlight Sound database:
> 
> http://www.nattvard.com/iix/database.php
> 
> It mentions that the base frequency for Fairlight samples is A3.
> Given that, I did a quick CSD using A4 as a base frequency to divide a
> desired frequency to get the rate at which to play the samples with
> loscil3.
> 
> I've attached a CSD file that plays a little bit of "Moments in Love"
> using the ARR1.WAV (choral sound) and ORCH5.WAV (orchestra stab)
> samples from the first link above.  Certainly a bit more work
> necessary to get things more like the original, but I thought I'd
> share what I put together so far.
> 
> Cheers!
> steven
> 
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