Yup. It's the keyboard on the bottom. The monitor on top of it (with the light pen and Joy-Division-looking waveforms) and the alphanumeric keyboard with the white keys in front of the Apple II go with the Fairlight too. Somewhere offscreen must be the big honkin' CPU part of it, with 8" floppy drives.
They were amazing instruments. I think there must've been a law in the '80s that every song on the radio had to have either a Fairlight, a Yamaha DX7, or both on it. :-)
The smaller keyboard, with the wooden side panels, is part of an alphaSyntauri, which came with a card for the Apple II and some software that basically gave you a poor man's Fairlight. (Additive synthesis and a sequencer, but no sampling.)
The fact that the alphaSyntauri keyboard is on the Fairlight instead of over with its Apple II, and the Fairlight's alphanumeric keyboard is over by the Apple, makes me think this was staged a bit to look "cool" rather than practical.
chabala@reddit
Perhaps it hasn't been long enough yet, but I expected a comment identifying whose studio this is by how well equipped it is.
Don_T_Blink@reddit
Is has "Don't You Want Me (The Human League)" vibes
luckierbridgeandrail@reddit
Poor guy in sneakers got vaporized.
Fairlight60@reddit
On the left that's a Fairlight CMI, considered the world's first digital sampler and worth $25000 at the beginning of the 80s.
SomePeopleCallMeJJ@reddit
Yup. It's the keyboard on the bottom. The monitor on top of it (with the light pen and Joy-Division-looking waveforms) and the alphanumeric keyboard with the white keys in front of the Apple II go with the Fairlight too. Somewhere offscreen must be the big honkin' CPU part of it, with 8" floppy drives.
They were amazing instruments. I think there must've been a law in the '80s that every song on the radio had to have either a Fairlight, a Yamaha DX7, or both on it. :-)
The smaller keyboard, with the wooden side panels, is part of an alphaSyntauri, which came with a card for the Apple II and some software that basically gave you a poor man's Fairlight. (Additive synthesis and a sequencer, but no sampling.)
The fact that the alphaSyntauri keyboard is on the Fairlight instead of over with its Apple II, and the Fairlight's alphanumeric keyboard is over by the Apple, makes me think this was staged a bit to look "cool" rather than practical.
stuffitystuff@reddit
I can't seem to place what I assume are stereo bus compressors over in the rack. I was gonna say dbx 162 but those didn't have black dials
SomePeopleCallMeJJ@reddit
My best guess is that those are the preamps and meters for an 8-track tape recorder, specifically this Otari model.
stuffitystuff@reddit
Dang, that is some *skill*! Nice work, that has to be it.