Fairlight CMI

The Fairlight CMI (computer musical instrument) was the first digital sampling synthesiser. It was designed by Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie in Sydney, Australia in the late 1970s, and rose to prominence in the early 1980s.

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Sampling - Synthesiser - Sydney, Australia - 1970s - 1980s

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The first buyers of the new system were Peter Gabriel, Todd Rundgren, Nick Rhodes and Stevie Wonder, and the first commercially released song to use it was Gabriel's Shock the Monkey in September 1982. It also found use on Kate Bush's The Dreaming, which was released the same year. It was also used in Jean-Michel Jarre's 1980's LPs Magnetic Fields and Zoolook.

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Peter Gabriel - Todd Rundgren - Nick Rhodes - Stevie Wonder - Kate Bush - ''The Dreaming'' - Jean-Michel Jarre

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