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Fairlight CMI

January, 2011

30 years ago Peter Vogel and company started what has become the computer-based music production industry with the Fairlight CMI. Today celebrating that anniversary Peter is bringing back the Fairlight CMI-30A.

Fairlight Original vs New

Peter Vogel demos the Fairlight CMI-30A @ NAMM 2011

Interview with Peter Vogel re Fairlight CMI-30A @ NAMM 2011

Bob Moog demos the Fairlight CMI 1983

The Fairlight dominated the hit songs of the 1980's through 1990's and cost about the same as the average house. It's amazing to think that the same money as the Fairlight cost in 1982 converted to 2011 dollars would buy you FL Studio + ultra-fast PC (1000's of times more powerful) AND enough money left over to build a real recording studio to put it all in :)

Hats off to Peter & Fairlight for bringing the CMI back.

...and finally, the Fairlight iPad app!

Cool! Must HAVE!

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Create 'Blur Pads'

In this tutorial the Guru shows you how to make lush pads from just about any monophonic melody using Edison and Newtone (or just Edison if you don't have Newtone) ...

Download the project created above here

The steps are:

1. Load a monophonic melody (vocal/instrumental whatever you have, tonal/timbre variation is good) into Newtone. If you don't have Newtone you can get it here. You can also skip this step and use Edison edit out a string of notes of the same pitch.

2. Use Newtone to flatten the pitch to a single note (close to the average of the melody).

3. Load the flattened melody into Edison and remove any gaps between notes and other non-melodic noises. 'S,T,C,CH & F' sounds can become unwanted noise 'hiss' after blurring.

4. Add at least 4 seconds silence before and after the flattened melody.

5. NOTE: If your sample is mono, convert it to stereo before blurring it.

6. Apply the Blur tool function with ~4000 ms 'Amount' setting

7. Load the Blurred sample into your favourite sampler. Don't forget to set the root-note to the correct pitch of the sound.

Enjoy!

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Sound Design Winners

Papam Studios created a shiny new animated Image-Line logo for use in our videos and it needed audio so we started a competition. There were over 200 entries that we reduced to three winners. Download the winning FL Studio projects and any other of the 200+ entries by following the links at the bottom of our News Post.

The winning sound designs

Image-Line Logo by Papam Studios

Competition trailer video

music 'Vostok' made in FL Studio courtesy of nucleon (Electroconductor)

Entrants videos

We had over 200 entries. You can download all the projects entered and the winners from the original Contest Entry thread on our forums. We reduced this to 25 finalists you can see here.

Thanks to everyone who participated. Keep an eye on our news feed for future competitions.

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FL Studio 9.8 Beta

The 9.8 Beta has expired, please see the FL Studio 9.9 Beta announcement here.

The FL Studio 9.8 Beta is available for testing. The FL Studio 9.7 Beta has expired so customers need to download FL Studio 9.8 Beta to continue projects started in FL Studio 9.7.

Download the FL Studio 9.8 Beta here

What's New?

- Alt key flips snapping instead of forcing it off.

- New "Frozen LFO" option in envelopes. Holds current LFO value.

- "Multilink to controllers"'s popup now features single last tweaked parameter.

- Piano roll export to musical notation, PDF format.

Print to Score from the Piano roll

Please note:

1. The FL Studio 9.8 Beta expires 28th February 2011

2. You will need to download and install a new registration code from your account

3. Report bugs/issues to the FL Studio 9.8 Beta forum NOT in Looptalk.

4. In the shop you may also see a Pay what you think it's worth bundle for Newtone AND Pitcher. This PWYTIW purchase includes the final release versions when they are out of beta.

See all the 'What's New' update videos for FL Studio 9 here (4 video in this Play-list)...

FL Studio 9 Updates Play-list (4 Videos)

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