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This wasn't my machine, I think he acquired it and all the replacement parts for less than $2k.

Thanks! I’ll be diving into the sampling soon. I’d love to see some Emu vids!

None of the Heartbeat City stuff is present on the hard drives. It’s all stuff from Door to Door and This Side of Paradise. The drives are only 30 MB total, so they likely backed up the system to Kennedy tape drive and cleared it to make space for the new albums. BTW, I’m also in a Cars tribute here in Dallas called Grandtheft Auto. Good luck with your project ! 😎

@@studio-g-dallas Thanks. That's kind of a shame it's missing the Heartbeat City stuff. Did you have much luck recreating it? Great your in a Cars tribute too. We're in the New England area. The idea was proposed by someone from my old band a good 7 or 8 years ago. We finally went through with the idea in the fall of 2022 and found musicians Jan 2023. When we put it together, we knew of no Cars tributes from our area or that even played around here, but have since discovered one or two. Heartbeat City still needs a lot of work. I have the other songs on the album down well enough, but still working on the middle solo for "Hello Again". We learned the earlier stuff like the first album. I'm running all VST's and the Yamaha Montage sounds. I have the Synclavier VST, but haven't spent a lot of time with it yet. I did get the sounds for "Home by the sea / Second home by the sea" from Genesis, probably the song that most inspired me to play synths in the first place.

@@n8goulet we use a Korg Kronos for both The Cars tribute and my 80s band, eMpTyVs. Its an incredible multitimbral beast!

@@studio-g-dallas And that alone? The synths I cover the most in my bands are the OB-X, Prophet 5, Mini Moog, ARP 2600/Pro Soloist, etc. I found having the exact engines to be important. I also use Montage sounds too, but the leads are mostly VST's. I've heard countless Kronos libraries, but always seemed to be hit or miss. No different than using just the Montage. Still, the Kronos & Montage are very powerful overall in what they do. Korg makes a Mini Korg VST which was one of Greg's main ones. I need to learn it better. I've mostly played in 80s bands. This is my first band that is a tribute to one band. I saw Journey & Toto play last night. I mostly cover bands similar to them like Styx, Kansas, Foreigner, etc.

I rarely use a factory preset. I've built most of the sounds myself though I did start with a factory patch and heavily modified it for about 1/3 of the songs. They are not perfect, but they are so close that only a purist with deep knowledge of synths would have any nits to pick. There is also a fairly decent prebuild library of Cars patches for the Kronos. I forget where that was available. The Arturia V-Collection is an awesome choice if you're willing to take the risk running off of a laptop. They tend to overheat during the summers. I've had some crashes, and also saw it happen to Dan Clark on the Howard Jones / Midge Ure tour. They had to switch to an "accoustic" show. :/ I'd strongly recommend going with a workstaion style keyboard that has 16 Voice multitimbral capabilities. That way you can do as many layers and splits as you need for the Cars stuff. :) @@n8goulet

Great suggestions. I’ll see what I can put together. 😎

Thanks! I was fortunate that the #1 NED expert on the planet is within driving distance (4 hours from my house). :)

LOL, thanks. I figured, why not start at the waaaay deep end and work towards the more basic stuff in Episode 2, eh? ;) Thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching! I'm a big fan of Trevor Horne's work with ZTT. I agree on the lack of CMI videos... I'll be making more now that I've gotten some thing sorted out with shooting and editing in my little studio. :)

Honestly i'm looking forward to see what you come up with! I know talent when i see it!@@studio-g-dallas

Thank you, I'm glad you like it. Have you played with the iPad app, SynclavierGO? It's really good, as it should be. It was written by Cameron Jones, co-inventor and primary software developer of the Synclavier, both original and Regen. It's as close as you can get to the real thing and it sounds great. :)

@@studio-g-dallas Interesting, I will totally check that out! Thank you so much! :)

Thanks so much! I did a Fairlight video a while back... before I had the slightest clue how to do videos! ;) I'm definitely going to do a new (proper) CMI video. Though I don't have the Trevor Horn samples, I could certainly take a shot at recreating one of the classics... perhaps Close to the Edit or something like that. It'd make a great episode for sure! Thanks for the suggestion and support!

Thank you! Cheers!

Appreciate it my friend! Now it's time to make another (proper) Fairlight episode. ;)

Thank you Torsten! :)

Thank you, Happy new year!

Happy new year!

I've only had very limited success with Mame CMI IIx. At some point, I will come back to it after I get some CMI Series III videos completed. :)

@@studio-g-dallas Thank you for your reply, I found a very good build to the Mame CMI IIx, it works perfectly

No, it's pretty much a stand-alone program much like the original Fairllights. :)

@@studio-g-dallas How do you get to record it in sync with any daw projects then 🙏

You don't. What I did was build the sequence with a 4 count click at the start. I set Logic to the same tempo as QB. Then systematically bounced stems for each track. The click allowed me to line up the tracks with each other and to the start of the measure.. It sounds sketchy, but it actually worked pretty good. :) @@screamingunderbelly

@@studio-g-dallas How much is it brother when I go on there it says I should make the first offer 🤣 like can I suggest any price myself 🙌

Yep, you can literally donate any amount. I gave him $50 because he's super responsive about fixing bugs and continues to develop IIz as well as Alias. :) @@screamingunderbelly

Yes... me likey lots!

Very true, which is why Fairlight and Synclavier both moved more into movie post production and high-end "tapeless" studio recording (aka high speed hard disk recording). That's why they cost between $80k - $200k back in the late 80s - early 90s.

@@studio-g-dallas yes.... 💯

Glad you enjoyed it! If you haven't tried it yet, check out QasarBeach IIz. It's pretty much "the Fairlight experience" with some nice additions. The UI in QB is very close to the original and most if not all of the actuall IIx commands works. Arturia CMI V is also good especially for higher resolution harmonic synthesis and resysthesis. However, the "Spectral Synth" as they call it is not like anything I've seen on a realy Fairlight. :)

Thank you! Cheers!

Thank you so much 😀

I can’t say for sure on the IIx. I have a Series III which does not have additive synthesis, or at least not with harmonic faders and frames. Instead it offers Fast Fourier Synthesis by drawing harmonic content. Alias is certainly promising, the next version that’s about to drop is nothing short of stunning!

*Well done

Indeed, we watched Koyaanisqatis several times and we’re certainly influenced by it. We watch a few other art films and various documentaries to get ideas and inspiration.

I had been working strictly in RS. But after watching Cris Blyth’s video, I was super intrigued and just decided to dive in. I’m glad I did because CAPS is much more powerful and flexible.

Thank you! Cheers!

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