Two of the earliest commercial digital synthesizers were the Fairlight CMI, introduced in 1979, and the New England Digital Synclavier II.

The Fairlight CMI was the first sampling synthesizer, while the Synclavier was originally an FM synthesizer, not adding sampling synthesis until the 1980s.

Although not as flexible or powerful as either the Fairlight CMI or the Synclavier, its lower cost and portability made it popular.

It used FM synthesis and, although it was incapable of the sampling synthesis of the Fairlight CMI, its price was around $ 2, 000, putting it within range of a much larger number of musicians.

The album has been criticized for its overuse of the Fairlight CMI synthesizer, and weak songwriting.

Series III of the Fairlight CMI ( computer musical instrument ) used dual 6809 CPUs and OS9, and also used one 6809 CPU per voice card.

* In the embedded market, where OS-9 has found application in such devices as the Fairlight CMI synthesizers, robotics, in-car navigation systems, and Philips ' Compact Disc-Interactive ( CD-i ) industry standard.

Although pricing made it inaccessible for most musicians, it found widespread use among producers and professional recording studios, competing at times in this market with such high-end production systems as the Fairlight CMI.

Horn polished the band's developing songs with modern studio effects and digital sampling using the Fairlight CMI and also played a prominent role in vocal arrangement ( including contributing to the backing vocals ).

It was notable for its use in the Fairlight CMI, and the BBC Micro.

** Fairlight CMI, the first digital sampling synthesiser

In the score, Zimmer uses synthesizers ( mostly a Fairlight CMI ) mixed with steel drums.

1984's Junk Culture was a return to a poppier sound and saw the band using digital sampling keyboards such as the Fairlight CMI and the E-mu Emulator.

The general concept of step-sequencing samples numerically, as used in trackers, is also found in the Fairlight CMI sampling workstation of the early 1980s.

It was during the Lexicon sessions that Horn first assembled the production team that would characterise and define the sound of a Horn production in the 1980s: Anne Dudley on keyboards and arrangements, Gary Langan ( later Stephen Lipson ) as chief engineer, J. J. Jeczalik on programming for the Fairlight CMI, backing vocalist Tessa Webb plus percussionist Luis Jardim.

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Fairlight CMI series II — exhibited at NAMM Show 2011

The Fairlight CMI ( Computer Musical Instrument ) is a digital sampling synthesizer.

The Fairlight CMI was a development of an earlier synthesizer called the Qasar M8, an attempt to create sound by modeling all of the parameters of a waveform in real time.

By 1979, the Fairlight CMI Series I was being demonstrated in Australia, the UK and the US.

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The Fairlight CMI was very well built, assembled by hand with expensive components and consequently it was highly priced ( around £ 20, 000 for a Series I ).

This system is supposed to have the look and feel of the 1979 CMI but will use the latest ' Crystal Core media engine ' developed by Fairlight. au.

In 2011, Fairlight also released a CMI app for the Apple iPad.

Sample-based instruments have been used since the Computer Music Melodian, the CMI Fairlight and the NED Synclavier.

Examples of early music workstations included the New England Digital Synclavier and the Fairlight CMI.

The Fairlight used a dual Motorola 6800 configuration, while the Synclavier used a mini-computer called the ABLE.

E-mu Emulator II ( 1984 ) was designed to bridge the gap between the Fairlight CMI and Synclavier and the Ensoniq Mirage.

E-mu had previously been able to sell their Emulators at around the $ 10, 000 range because the only alternatives were the $ 30, 000-$ 200, 000 ( depending on which package you went for ) Fairlight CMI, and the $ 200, 000-$ 500, 000 NED Synclavier System.

DiCola also pioneered the use of sequencers on his soundtrack recording for Rocky IV, one of the first to exploit the Fairlight CMI & Synclavier II's computer's sequencing capabilities.

* Steve Nieve – Bösendorfer piano, Emulator, Fairlight CMI, Vox organ, Hammond organ, Synclavier

* Jean Michel Jarre – Synclavier, Seiko DS-250, Elka Synthex, Moog synthesizer, Roland JX 8P, Fairlight CMI, E-mu Emulator II, Eminent 310U, EMS Synthi AKS, Laser Harp, RMI, OBX, DX 100, Matrisequencer, Roland TR-808, Linn 9000, Prophet, Casio CZ 5000, ARP 2600

* Jean Michel Jarre – keyboards, Fairlight CMI, Synclavier

* Jean Michel Jarre – Synclavier, Roland D-50, Fairlight CMI, Synthex, EMS Synthi AKS, OSC OSCar, EMS Vocoder, Dynacord ADD1, Cristal Baschet, Akai MPC60, drums programming, percussions

Kingsley moved beyond the Moog, and later pioneered the use of the earliest Fairlight and Synclavier digital synthesizers.

The sandstone cliffs have been the subject of considerable erosion in relatively recent times: much of the Castle was lost to the sea before the present sea defences and promenade were built, and a number of cliff-top houses are in danger of disappearing around the nearby village of Fairlight.

The Cano brothers were innovative musicians in the use of technology, and Nacho was one of the first Spanish musicians to own a Fairlight keyboard.

On January 14, 2004, Engineers from Fairlight, Waveframe and AMS were awarded Scientific and Technical Academy Awards for the development of hard disk recording technology.

In the case of the music workstations, the next output devices to be added were typically computer terminal displays ( some with graphics ), and in the case of the Fairlight, the next input device was a light pen for " drawing " on the display screen.

In 2006, DJ Hell was involved in a German Intel promotional campaign involving five renowned demogroups ( Andromeda Software Development, Conspiracy, Fairlight, Farbrausch and mfx ), who were set out to create 30-second demos using remixed versions of a DJ Hell track .< ref name =" intel2006 ">

( The cross of the " t " in Fairlight draws on the 80th column and would ordinarily cause screen wrapping if it were saved in plain ASCII and viewed on a standard IBM PC running MS-DOS.

1989-Three more issues of Exceller 8 were released, one more with Fairlight and finally two more with The Silents.

The initial intention was to utilise the remaining 20 kilometres of track between Garston and Kingston, but the decision was made to end the line in Fairlight and the additional six kilometres to Garston were closed.

The single mix features a cleaner sound with more electronics than the album version, notably the Fairlight CMI music workstation, the premier sampling keyboard workstation of the ' 80s, used to provide novel sounds, such as the orchestral hits that were so popular, but also to sequence the song.

Among the prolific warez release groups targeted by Fastlink were Fairlight, Kalisto, Echelon, Class, and DEViANCE-all of which specialized in pirating computer and console video games.

After the bust of The Not So Humble Babe on credit card fraud charges in Michigan, USA teamed up the European PC warez division of Fairlight and were cooperatively known as " USA / FLT ".