feelie75 (August 16, 2008 at 6:40 am)

it's interesting that he only sampled 1 note from the sax. I always sampled 1 note from about 3 different octaves because the timbre changes so much when you get into the lower or higher registers. Maybe that idea came later than this. At any rate, awesome post, thanks!

synthforhire (August 15, 2008 at 6:06 am)

Funny how they never mentioned the name of the movie Emerson was scoring; pretty sure it's "Nighthawks". The series II Fairlight was 8 bits; series IIx was 8 bits plus companders added for noise reduction; series III was 16 bits.

HammondB200 (August 4, 2008 at 7:59 pm)

"people always want to hear the real live instrument play, and see a person actually perform it" wow, that unfolded quite nasty didn't it Keith? thank you for helping introducing some crap called: techno/house/disco/club

Sulaco516 (August 3, 2008 at 4:05 pm)

I bet Keith Emerson had his Fairlight in the 1990s for the music for season 1 of the Iron Man Animated Series.

ctspf (July 25, 2008 at 11:00 pm)

I couldn't agree more!

DjProducerMattPop (July 24, 2008 at 8:30 pm)

You can make good, bad, difficult, simple, easy, dull or exciting music with synthesizers and computers, or do it with traditional instruments. It's all up to the musician. It really doesn't take a lot of creativity to pick up a guitar and play a c, f and g chord, yet musicians who use synthesizers - instruments with almost limitless possibilities - are often thought of as not real musicians, because some people seem to think that the computer composes a song buy itself if you press a button.

Amishman35 (June 17, 2008 at 2:26 pm)

At 1:43 it sounds like the inside of the castle on Super Mario 64.

Sulaco516 (June 16, 2008 at 4:53 pm)

A light pen.

coolshit28 (June 6, 2008 at 11:01 pm)

Wow those trumpets sounded totally gm. Lol.

LuxX63 (June 1, 2008 at 10:49 pm)

8 bit maybe,but how was the fact this beast of sampler made sound very incredible?Please hear well what its were capable....even now yes we have 32bit but not the same results!Respect for this ancient rock_machine!