David Vorhaus - That Fairlight Sound !

Electronic Music · Jun 16, 2020 · 30m · transcript

David Vorhaus of White Noise chats with Rob Puricelli about his early involvement with the Fairlight CMI and his Kaleidophon ribbon controller and Maniac sequencer inventions.

Chapters

00:00 - Introduction

00:31 - Peter Vogel and the Fairlight CMI

01:51 - First Fairlight in the UK

03:25 - That Fairlight sound

05:32 - Stravinsky Firebird Suite, London Philharmonia

06:38 - The KPM albums

08:25 - Working with Delia Derbyshire

11:15 - Early technological limitations

13:20 - Sequential Circuits

14:56 - 12 bit sampling

16:27 - The Kaleidophon

18:40 - Interlude

19:05 - The Maniac sequencer

21:59 -…