How the Fairlight CMI Synthesizer Revolutionized Music
Within the credits of Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required seems the disclaimer that “there isn’t a Fairlight on this file.” Cryptic although it could have appeared to most of that album’s many purchaseers, technology-minded musicians would’ve received it. Within the half-decades since its introduction, the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument, or CMI, had reshaped the sound…