[Davearneson] built a modern version of a classic synthesizer with his DIY Fairlight CMI. If there were a hall of fame for electronic instruments, the Fairlight CMI would be on it. An early sampling ...

It's impossible to overstate the enormous impact of sampling on music, and hard to imagine a world without it. At the start of it all, there was the Fairlight CMI. The Fairlight wasn't the first ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NAMM 2011: Fairlight's CMI sampling synthesizer was one of the most influential instruments of ...

Sunday afternoon at Substantial's loft-like office on Capitol Hill there comes a disorienting cacophony from several synthesizers being tested by various geeks and geekettes. It's a towering babble of ...