UVI has announced the release of Darklight IIx, a sound library that is inspired by the Fairlight.
Costing upwards of $100,000, the dream machine of the 80’s was unattainable by most. Used by countless prominent artists including: Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Kate Bush, Herbie Hancock, Thomas Dolby and many more, it remains a highly regarded and sought after instrument.
Nearly thirty years later, no one has accurately captured the essence of this digital monster. Today, UVI is proud to say all of that is about to change…
We took our obsession to the next level, creating a complete set of instruments, sounds and sonic tools deeply inspired by the original digital monster.
A unique, hybrid process of exhaustive multi-sampling, analysis, and advanced audio processing allowed us to not only capture the original character of this machine but to enhance its ability with a host of today’s most powerful analog modeled filters, LFOs, envelopes and effects–packaged beautifully in a old-school interface.
Darklight IIx features
Page P > ‘Organic’ Digital Sounds
Immediate access to hundreds of sounds and instruments including: Bass, Brass, Bells, Strings, Guitar, Orchestral Hits, Synth, Drums, Percussion, FX, Keys, Piano, Organs, Winds, Reeds and Voices.
Efficient and versatile control set allows for everything from quick tweaks to deep sonic exploration.
Accurate reproduction of aliasing characteristics.
More than 250 ready-to-play presets.
A multitude of effects, including the new UVI SparkVerb™, allow you to create sounds like the original machine and process them to sound like your favorite cult records from the 80′s or something totally new!
Page B > Digital Drum Machine
80’s-style beatbox with step sequencer.
8 parts / 16 steps by part.
Hundreds of authentic vintage drums and percussion sounds including: Bass Drums, Snare Drums, Rim Shots, Claps, Cymbals, Crash, Ride, Hi-Hats closed and open, Toms and tons of percussions like Shalers, Congas, Guiros, Maracas, Cowbells and many more.
Dozens of kits and patterns ready to be tweaked.
UVI Filter, Tune, Volume, Pan and Mute for each part.
Page U > Creative Multi-Phraser
UVI exclusive ultra creative multi-phraser.
3 parts with 3 layers and 3 smart step sequencers.
Dozens of authentic vintage digital sounds including: Bass, Bells, Brass, Guitars, Keyboards, Mallets, Orchestral, Organs, Strings, Piano, Voices.
Create very fast multi-track arrangements or moving drones.
Dozens of presets ready to be tweaked.
The sound library for UVI Workstation 2 (free) or MachFive 3 is available to purchase for $199 USD. Requires iLok.
Bitley has announced the release of EIII, a ReFill previously only available as a bonus to the Fairlight II+ and XXL ReFills.
We have now decided that this very fine refill also should be available as a stand-alone refill.
The EIII refill contains multi-samples taken from our E-mu Emulator Three sampling keyboard, an 8 Mb version that originally cost $12,500 back in the late 80s. The EIII refill is a real bargain at only $25.
EIII ReFill features
84.7 MB of wavesamples consisting of 353 waveforms.
63 NNXT patches.
43 Combinator patches.
The EIII ReFill is available to purchase for $25 USD.
The Fairlight II+, XXL, and Kontakt Project libraries are now available at a lowered price of $85, $125, and $85 USD respectively.
Fairlight Instruments has announced the release of Fairlight for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
The legendary Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument – in your pocket! Create music the way the major artists of the ’80s did: Alan Parsons, Brian Eno, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder and so many more. Listen to the actual sounds used to create that instantly recognisable sound of the ’80s.
The CMI’s Page R was the world’s first screen-based rhythm sequencer. Today every sampler, digital synthesizer, sequencer and audio workstation can trace its lineage back to this legendary machine. Now you can have, in your pocket or on your iPad, a piece of history developed by Fairlight staff who worked on the CMI in the ’80s.
The Fairlight app is available to purchase for $9.99 USD. An in-app upgrade to the Pro version is $39.99 USD. Compare features here.
Bitley has released Wavelight 3 – Brass 1 & 2, and Wavelight 4 – Drums & Percussion, two new sample packs in the Wavelight series
Wavelight is the series of pure Fairlight disks sampled in 44,1 khz / 16 bit fidelity. These are the same samples used in our refill ‘Bitley Supersonic / Fairlight CMI Legacy II’.
New Wavelight sample packs
Wavelight 3 – Brass 1 & 2, features nasty, glorious, loopy brass sounds, recently used by Madonna among others. All samples are recorded at middle C, for being easily laid out on any sampling instrument (no multisamples).
Wavelight 4 – Drums & Percussion, 115 individual drum sounds (in each of the AIFF and WAV format folders), including drum sounds you have heard in use with Art Of Noise, Yazoo, Pet Shop Boys and many others. Featuring 14 Fairlight BDs alone, rest assured you are going to get a lot of variation. The sounds are actually highly usable in a production of today.
The Wavelight 3 and 4 libraries are available to purchase for $14 USD each.
Bitley has released the Fairlight CMI Legacy MKII, a new ReFill featuring the sounds of the Fairlight synthesizer.
The amazing Fairlight CMI Legacy ReFill will now co-exist with a huge, vastly updated version. First projected as “Bitley Supersonic”, the all-new Fairlight CMI Legacy MKII refill (Reason sound bank) marks our biggest release to date. The new refill contains all the data from all the previous refills. It’s all here. Fairlight CMI Legacy, Fairlight CMI Supremacy 1.4, The Prophet, Orlando JX10, DaBeat – as well as a good portion of supplementary material.
Quite a number of patches. Fairlight CMI Legacy MKII contains over 1,000 single NNXT patches. Over 450 Combinator patches. Over 150 ReDrum drum kits. A number of brand new signature patches from ThinkingMachine and Abstract Assasinator, two of Sweden’s best Reason programmers, in addition to a wide range of new patches from Patrick Fridh Aka Bitley, Reason user since the year 2000 and previously known for building factory patches for Propellerhead and Clavia as well as commercial ReFills for PowerFX.
Fairlight CMI Legacy MKII ReFill for Reason 4 and higher is available to purchase for $149 USD. A free update ReFill will be posted later this year, with patches using Kong and Octorex and new rex files to take full advantage of the Reason 5 features.
PowerFX has released Fairlight CMI Legacy, a Reason ReFill featuring the sounds of the Fairlight CMI II.
This library collects an awesome amount of ultra clean recordings of the original sounds from the Fairlight CMI II, the world’s first real sampling based workstation as premiered some time before 1980. And this entire Reason 4 library costs much less than 64 kilobytes of memory did in 1980.
The ReFill contains somewhat more than that, too. It carries 644 Megabyte of samples. You get over 2000 sounds in all, including all of the Fairlight’s 33 precious 8 inch factory discs. To celebrate the Fairlight feel, all new samples are labeled and arranged in virtual 8 inch disks as well.
Unfortunately, we could not simulate the loading time, noise and intermettent failures of the original disk drives. You will have to live with that.
Fairlight CMI Legacy features
491 patches for all Reason units.
Over 1700 waveforms and samples.
A complete virtual Computer Musical Instrument in your rack.
Fairlight CMI Legacy is available to purchase for 69 USD.
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