references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . december 2006 learn how and when to remove this template message fairlight type private founded 1975 founder peter vogel kim ryrie headquarters sydney new south wales australia website fairlightau.com fairlight is a digital audio company based in sydney . in 1979 they created the fairlight cmi one of the earliest music workstation with digital audio sampler quickly used by artists such as peter gabriel kate bush and jean michel jarre . they are now a manufacturer of media tools such as digital audio recording and mixing consoles . fairlight became such a prominent part of 1980s pop music that phil collins included the text there is no fairlight on this record on the sleeve of no jacket required . contents 1 history 2 current products 3 references 4 external links history edit in 1975 fairlight instruments pty ltd was established by peter vogel and kim ryrie . they produced microprocessor based music workstation with samplers which were revolutionary for their time . new sounds could be created by drawing a sound wave on the screen which the computer would produce as sound . theoretically any sound was possible . apart from opening up a world of new sounds the fairlight gave composers and performers instant playback . by changing the wave patterns presented on a screen they could tweak a sound into shape without singing or performing it all over again . 1 the versatility of the early fairlight was not lost on recording artists . the first record made entirely on a computer in the united states was done by ebn ozn ned liben who represented fairlight in new york and robert ozn aeiou sometimes y made in 1981 released in 1983 . their hybrid analogue digital computer video instrument invented by kia silverbrook debuted in 1984 . 2 the fact that the cvi was also a computer was transparent to its use it did not use a conventional ascii keyboard though in later models one could be attached but rather a set of sliders and a small graphics pad about the size of the palm of a hand . menu selections were made with a stylus rather than a mouse . the cvi allowed you to paint directly over the top of video footage as well as with video footage via an extensive series of effects . 3 in april 1989 fairlight esp electric sound and picture was established by kim ryrie with the financial backing of australian distributor amber . in august 2009 a new company called fairlight instruments was launched by peter vogel with the objective of producing a new range of computer musical instruments cmi based on fairlight.au s crystal core media engine . in july 2012 the company fairlight instruments changed its name to peter vogel instruments . peter vogel announced the company was developing a completely new keyboard synthesizer which would be launched at winter namm 2013 . in september 2016 fairlight was acquired by blackmagic design . 4 current products edit crystal core processing engine a sound processing device capable of sampling frequencies up to 384 khz . crystal core does not use dsp based architecture but a field programmable gate array . xynergi a tactile control unit that makes use of self labeling lcd keys . fairlight cmi 30a this is a new cmi which is not a product of fairlight.au . it is being developed by peter vogel through his own company peter vogel instruments . references edit fairlight cmi synthesizer . powerhouse museum australia . retrieved 22 february 2009 . 1984 billboard magazine article on fairlight cvi fairlight computer video instrument . audiovisualizers.com inc. retrieved 22 february 2009 . design blackmagic . blackmagic design media . www.blackmagicdesign.com . retrieved 2016 09 09 . external links edit official website company making the fairlight cmi 30th anniversary edition fairlightus north america fairlight europe candor chasma the main french resource about the fairlight cmi english version available image of xynergi based studio some of peter vogel s historical fairlight images and music collection . http www.fairlightau.com archive site 2006au2.html http www.vintagesynth.com technical and historical infos cmi hardware software site by k.m.i. retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fairlight company & oldid 740607132 categories synthesizer manufacturing companiescompanies established in 1975companies based in sydneyelectronics companies established in 1989electronics companies of australiamanufacturing companies disestablished in 1988hidden categories engvarb from november 2013use dmy dates from november 2013articles lacking reliable references from december 2006all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout 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