This is a complete recreation of the Fairlight CMI IIx. This has all the features of the original Fairlight CMI including 16 stereo voices, full voice editing and realtime control, harmonic additive synthesis, full Page R sequencer and much more. Launched 1 year ago the 1.29g is the biggest update. which focusses on much better IIx import of voices, songs and instruments. Better III multisample .vc support. III style button bar and lots of UI improvements throughout. A new internal song system that matches the IIx, plus individual output mixing. New Midi keyboard allocation with PAGE 3, and soo much more... QasarBeach has also gained features that were planned for the IIx but not implemented (at the time) - many thanks for help and input from the original engineers and friends ! You get full file support for Fairlight Series I, II, IIx, III samples, including all loop points, filter settings, etc, plus new III multisample support. You just need to have the ORIGINAL files in .VC format.

IIx files .rs and .in are also suported

Plus you get the following formats as pure samples, so editing may be needed, but it gives you the power to access virtually all famous sample libraries from Emu, Yamaha, Korg and more:

.wav / .aif .ogg / .sam .afs - casio cz1 sample .ksf -korg-sample-file oasis .msmpl_bank -korg microsampler bank .p3k - korg .usr - ppg .ufs - ppg .xoe, .x0v .x0a .x0s .x0w .x3v .x3a .x3s .x3w - yamaha motif .t01 .t02 .t03 .t04 .t05 - yamaha .krz .kr1 .kr2 .kr3 .kr4 .kr5 .kr6 -kerzweil .sf2 -soundfont2 .akai .img - akai img .256 -amiga 8bit single waveforms .xi -amiga fasttracker 2 .8svx .16sv .iff - amiga 8 bit / 16bit .em2 .eb2 .ez2 .e4b -emulator emax 2 library .ebl -emulator x .dms -emu2 .eii -emu2 .em1 .eb1 -emulator 1
.iso -emulator iso .out .s50 .w30 -roland s50 .bin - 8 bit binary files used by LINN and EMU for drum machine ROM You will need to download all three files, especially the Guide which will tell you all about the very basic operations of QasarBeach. The Fairlight CMI was a professional and complex machine, QasarBeach in no way tries to obscure this operation. So the UI is the same, the operation is the same, but there have been additions to make it a bit more user friendly. If you've ever wanted to have a go at your own music and want to know how The Art Of Noise, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, OMD, Yes, Hans Zimmer (and many many more) accomplished this in the 80's - QasarBeach is (almost) the way they did it!

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