Fairlight CMI

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Technology

In 1979, the Australians Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie released the Fairlight CMI, a computer with a keyboard and a light pen. It could record a real sound digitally and place it under the keys, at any pitch: a sampler. The idea of the Mellotron now worked without tapes, with any sound you could record. The Fairlight was so expensive that only stars and big studios could afford it. Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and the producer Trevor Horn built whole records with it.

Listening

• 
  Shock the Monkey · Peter Gabriel, 1982
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  Relax · Frankie Goes to Hollywood, 1983
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  Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) · Kate Bush, 1985

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See also

• Beat samplers (SP-1200, MPC)
• Minimoog
• Synthpop
• New Romantic
• Art rock