In the early 80s, the Fairlight CMI sampler changed the sound of popular music forever thanks to its digital sampling capabilities. It found favour among artists such as Peter Gabriel, Thomas Dolby ...

The vast majority of producers making use of samples today do so in software. Replaying, processing and manipulating recorded sounds is so easy in modern DAWs that we take it for granted – but this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RECORDING WEEK 2025:"All contemporary pop utilising computers and samplers owes something to the innovations of Trevor Horn in the ...

Fairlight Instruments released this video over the weekend, a 'sneak peek' at the new CMI-30A synthesizer. In the video, company CEO Peter Vogel presents a first look at the 30th Anniversary edition ...

Bitley tells us that the long time project for translating their Fairlight refill to Native Instruments Kontakt sampler is now finally finished. They say that the finalized product, Fairlight Kontakt, ...

What is it? A sampler, in ultra-simplistic terms, is basically a glorified tape recorder. Used primarily in electronic music, the sampler allows music to be made out of any sound recorded by the user, ...

If you're a geek and you grew up in the 1980s, then you probably remember the Fairlight CMI. It was that huge white synthesiser with a screen, a qwerty keyboard and a lightpen. It cost $50,000 and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Piano-style keyboard, monitor with ...

Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: Back in the early 1980s, high-tech music gear was really, ...