Peter vogel instruments
The Peter Vogel’s web site, one of the founding members of Fairlight Instruments with Kim Ryrie
The Holmes Page
One of the first sites about the Fairlight
K.M.I
Klaus Michael Indlekofer’s web site. A comprehensive and very technical section on the different Fairlight models
Mustudio
The site of my friend Jean-Bernard Emond, great specialist of Fairlight in France.
Jean-Bernard repairs any Fairlight model and offers, among other things, a Flash kit to replace one of the 8″ floppy disk drives with an SD card reader.
Virtual Music
Alexander Guelfenburg, located in Vienna, Austria, offers repair of the Fairlight CMI I, II and IIx, as well as an SD card kit, the Fairytale, as a replacement for floppy disk drives.
Sound banks are also available for download.
Trevor Marshall’s web site
Trevor Marshall is the creator of the ETI3600 and 4600.
Guide to Qasar Tony Furse archive in the Powerhouse Museum
Tony Furse’s archives available at the Powerhouse Museum in Australia. Very complete biography of Tony Furse
Art & Technology
Adrian S. Bruce’s web site (a former Fairlight employee)
PAULA’S RANDOM TECH RAMBLINGS
Paula Maddox’s blog, designer of Modal 002 synthesizer, Monowave synthesizer and Dove Audio modules
Several articles on her restoration of a Fairlight CMI IIx.
Jörg Sigle’s Fairlight CMI II Restauration
cmios9
Klaus Michael Indlekofer’s utility program to access to Fairlight QDOS, OS-9 RBF, and MDR-DOS image files and devices
FOR THE LOVE OF THE FAIRLIGHT
Mirjam van Kerkwijk’s web site with excellent interviews of people related to Fairlight
Sound On Sound
Norman Leete’s article from the British magazine Sound On Sound about the Fairlight CMI
The history of the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument
John Twyman’s thesis – University of Sydney – 2004
The story of ORCH5
Very complete article by Robert Fink on the sample ORCH5 (or ORCH2 depending on the library version), probably the most famous sample of the original Fairlight sound library
This sample was made by David Vorhaus in 1979 from an excerpt from Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird (Infernal Dance of All the Subjects of Kastchei), from the recording conducted by Josef Krips
THE STORY OF SARARR
Another famous sample from the original Fairlight sound library (SARARR or ARR1 depending on the library version) whose genesis is explained by its creator, Tom Stewart
THE FAIRLIGHT CMI: THE SECRET COMPOSER OF THE MUSIC YOU LOVE
Article and playlist published on the National Science and Media Museum blog (Bradford, UK)
Two articles by Tomás Mulcahy
Famous Samples Part 2: Fairlight Strings
About the LOSTR2 sample
Fairlight sounds
Sounds used by Kate Bush
Fairlight sound library database and utilities
Carl Jakobsson’s web site, offering a database of downloadable sounds in various formats, as well as several conversion utilities