I wish I'd known, since I could have grovelled ;-)

[Chris Abbott]

I recently had a meeting at the main Mobile Phone fair thingy in Barcelona, and had a meeting with Dolby. What I didn't know is that one of the two guys I was having the meeting with (all the way from Australia) was a designer on the original Fairlight! (the sampler, not the game!)

Chris

[Analog-X64]

When I hear fairlight I think, J. J. Jeczalik also know as "Mr. Fairlight" of "The Art Of Noise" or "The Petshop Boys"
or even better.

Watch Gary Numan and Bill Sharp I think thats a Fairlight too.

[Commie_User]

I thought Dolby was dead. Just turns out he co-invented videotape at 25, then noise reduction at 35, squeezing in all those PhDs in the process. Amazing what he did and so young.

I used to use a Dolby B and C on my record player, back in the days when I'd use second hand cartridges which gave me as much noise as narrower frequency music. Worked well - ish.

[LMan]

Wow you met a(nother) legend Chris.

[Chris Abbott]

Wow you met a(nother) legend Chris.

Apparently J. J. Jeczalik went to my old secondary school, too!

[Doddsy]

A legend. I think some people would have been annoyed at him after what he created. It led to Dance music and those N N N Nineteen style samples not to mention the Fairlight led to people sampling other artists records! Peeps its just a tool blame the people creating the music!

[Analog-X64]

The Art of Noise and Depeche Mode took sampling to another level, and made some decent music out of it. They didn't sample bits from older albums and add a drum track to it.

I was inspired by both bands when I was doing a lot of sampling, like taking an electric shaver sampling the noise of the motor and than slowing it down or re-sampling it down etc..

[Doddsy]

I was inspired by both bands when I was doing a lot of sampling, like taking an electric shaver sampling the noise of the motor and than slowing it down or re-sampling it down etc..

I think that was the general idea for creative use when a sampler was first invented. Any everyday sound could now be a musical instrument and instead of having to tape everything in tape loops like the Beatles did on Tomorrow Never Knows. Sounds could now be used more easily like Jarre did on the Zoolook album. Depeche Mode said they wish they would have thought about the idea of sampling drum loops.

Then the hip hop generation discovered sampling....

[Analog-X64]

Then the hip hop generation discovered sampling....

Yup... and its sad when you listen to a Hip Hop track on you tube and look at the comments and most likely those kids have no idea how much of the samples were lifted from other tracks.