Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument

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Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument

music synthesizer

Also known as: CMI, Fairlight CMI

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Sampling instruments; music workstations
…commercial sampling instrument was the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument (CMI), developed in Sydney, Australia, during the late 1970s. The Fairlight CMI was a general-purpose computer with peripheral devices that allowed the musician to digitize sounds, store them, and then play them back from a keyboard. The instrument was sold with…
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…commercial sampling instrument was the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument (CMI), developed in Sydney, Australia, during the late 1970s. The Fairlight CMI was a general-purpose computer with peripheral devices that allowed the musician to digitize sounds, store them, and then play them back from a keyboard. The instrument was sold with…
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