Moog ripped off the Fairlight CMI

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u already lost me

The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) was a VERY early digital sampler, Moog has produced wonderful analog synths since the 60's so they are completely non-related. Kinda like saying Boeing ripped off GM
 
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waddaya mean denied?? two VERY different instruments of very different vintage.... moog never built a sampler.... fairlight never built ana analog synth (to my knowledge)
 
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I don't actually know what I'm talking about. I just wanted to see if this forum was alive
 
is this thread just a dumb troll or did u actually hear that from someone?

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Bob Moog was a true pioneer and an American icon.

The Voyager is the culmination of his 50-plus years in the biz. It combines analog synthesis with digitital resolvers to track every twist of a knob or switch. Check out the editor sw too. These guys have their shit together very well. Lot's of guys have ripped off Bob Moog over the years, that's for sure. But nothing sounds like Moogs' original patented filter.

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Actually, there is confirmed anecdote that shapes some relation to Fairlight and Moog.

When Peter Vogel was just deciding further paths to education, Kim Ryrie asked him to join the later idea. To make it short, just for sake of introduction...

Anyway, Kim Ryrie's point of origin was actually his own favorite MOOG that he wanted to expand in his own domain of making best he could do, beyond observed analog limitations.

They considered sampling as cheating as they were considering ways to their goal. But mathematical models and early ideas soon voyaged the limit wall.

Only Yamaha grasped that part in years to come, with a decent bite.

So sampling came as the only way. But, that "only" created indisputably landmark machines nevertheless :)
 
psylux said:
Moogs don't sample Moogs don't have a lightpen What about a fairlight is analog?
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It always makes me sad when people from a wrong reasons place comparisons where there is no place for comparisons. From particular context, creation and realization.

They belong to the same club really. In fact, Moog would never silent his praise when anything he observed was worth of admiration. And for Fairlight, his praise was well documented.

If you are open minded person, I think perhaps you should read this. Then you would realize, that they are in the same club : http://tinyurl.com/tezv4

The last days of golden age, this link offers the very essence. Reason , why things sounded the way they did. Regardless, analog or digital


Well executed design - particularly one that is within absence of available technology forced to invent his own ways to solve a problems and thus form a real innovation - is beyond comparisons.

One cannot place comparison to product 30 or more years ahead of its time.
So from that vista, both Moog and Fairlight are in the same spot really.

Real designers never create comparisons, they create and lead the way… the earlier is sadly a headache for users that jump over history with short remarks without substance.

And to your first question, what is Analog about Fairlight?

Curtis SEMs for beginning.

Always learn before your think :)
 
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