The sound of the 1980s: What was the Fairlight CMI?
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The sound of the 1980s: What was the Fairlight CMI?
A look at the Fairlight CMI, the synthesizer that gave the music world sampling, and was used by everyone from Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush to Duran Duran.
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Tonight on the VAULT we're playing some of our favourite clips from songs that feature the indomitable Fairlight CMI synthesiser. Developed in Australia by Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, the Fairlight CMI was released in 1979 as the world's first music workstation with an embedded sampler, and is credited for coining the term 'sampling' in music. Despite an exorbitant price-tag, it quickly rose to prominence in the 1980s, becoming one of the most ubiquitous instruments of the decade, used and heard
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