EII and Fairlight libraries in Wav?

[hfinn]

Does anyone know of a good source of wavs (using ESX24) for EII and Fairlight libraries? Hoping for free as I have seen them before but can't now...

[gcoudert]

I posted the Fairlight CMI IIx library a while ago. Run a search, the thread is here somewhere.

[hfinn]

I looked and found nothing. I found a reference to you saying you posted them back in '09 sometime, but no links or anything to an actual library...

[Shreddie]

There was a thread about Fairlight libraries over at the sound on sound forums a week or two back but it seems to have dissappeared.... It's a shame as there was a good couple of links to libraries there... I'll see if I can ask someone for you.

[hfinn]

Thanks shreddie, if you come up with something maybe I could host them or something for others

[madtheory]

EII disk images are around. There's a converter that changes them to SoundFont:
http://users.skynet.be/emxp/

It works out fairly well, the majority of loop points, keymaps and modulation are translated properly, these can be imported to Kontakt.

Fairlight is less easy, there's no utility to convert the programs, only the wavs:
http://kmi9000.tripod.com/kmi_cmi.htm
It's an interesting one, it's possible to display the hex code for key maps, and you can see how little modulation is available on the IIx.
You'll find IIx disk images here:
http://www.fairlightus.com/cmi/
Not a huge amount of useable sounds, but the good stuff sounds pretty amazing. Some info here:
http://madtheory.com/site/?p=139

[D-Collector]

Fairlight is less easy, there's no utility to convert the programs, only the wavs:
http://kmi9000.tripod.com/kmi_cmi.htm
It's an interesting one, it's possible to display the hex code for key maps, and you can see how little modulation is available on the IIx.

Thanks for the links but I cannot find any program at that site.. Would love to extract the wave files from those disk images.

[bochelli]

Im after the real 1st generation Libary, i have a cmi 11x im hoping one day i can get sorted does anyone know of a source ?, the only guy i know is Alex in Wien Austria.

[madtheory]

That site I posted above with the IIx image files explains how to make your own copies to 8" floppy. They're a mixture of the 2.0 (compiled by Peter Weilk I believe) and v 1.0 library. Pink and blue disk labels respectively, I think? The Digital Domain CD is entirely from the pink v2.0, I think? Don't buy it, the Pro Rec version is a bootleg, just download the soundfonts or the disc image files that are around.

The entire original v1.0 library is very hard to find, some of the sounds went AWOL. There was a discussion about this very issue on the Fairlight Yahoo group last year. The sounds are around though, I found some on the JJ Jeczalik CD.

Thanks for the links but I cannot find any program at that site.. Would love to extract the wave files from those disk images.

Drop him an email, he's a very helpful guy and I'm sure he'd want to know about this oversight. You can also load the disk image as a raw audio file and delete the nasty noises the data makes in between. Sample rate is typically 15kHz or 32kHz, and of course 8 bit. Any editor that has "Open Any..." will do it, SoundHack on the Mac is good.

[D-Collector]

Drop him an email, he's a very helpful guy and I'm sure he'd want to know about this oversight. You can also load the disk image as a raw audio file and delete the nasty noises the data makes in between. Sample rate is typically 15kHz or 32kHz, and of course 8 bit. Any editor that has "Open Any..." will do it, SoundHack on the Mac is good.

Great, will do! Thanks for the tips.

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Ok, so I downloaded the disk images, used ImageDisk Utility in DOSbox to extract the raw .bin file, opened that with goldwave in 32khz 8bit mono, and got this:

http://www.filefreak.com/files/download ... 7/FAIR.wav

I'm chopping it up and making soundfonts now!

[madtheory]

That would be the "Humans 1" disk, right?

[seamonkey]

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Ok, so I downloaded the disk images, used ImageDisk Utility in DOSbox to extract the raw .bin file, opened that with goldwave in 32khz 8bit mono, and got this:

http://www.filefreak.com/files/download ... 7/FAIR.wav

I'm chopping it up and making soundfonts now!

You are like a mad scientist....but in a good way.

[madtheory]

NO, that would be me...

You can also load the disk image as a raw audio file and delete the nasty noises the data makes in between.

[Shreddie]

Not free but quite cheap at $25... Vintage samplers from Hollowsun. Covers both Fairlight and Emulator II stuff in Kontakt, EXS24 and S5/6000 formats.

[RyanC]

Would this be the post Gilles was referring to?

http://www.vintagesynth.com/forum/viewt ... 63#p489828