Nord has announced a major addition to the Nord Sample Library, the sounds of the legendary Fairlight digital sampler.
The Fairlight was the first commercially available polyphonic sampler when launched back in 1979 and it opened up the doors of sampling to many artists and producer during the 80’s.
The 300+ sounds in this collection were all sampled from a newly overhauled Fairlight CMI System IIx, with detailed mapping to capture the characteristic Fairlight sound. The Nord Sample Library is compatible with the Nord Wave, Nord Electro 3/4, Nord Piano 2 and Nord Stage 2.
Details are available at the Nord site.
I thought Fairlight patches were gone in the ether. Wonderful they’ve come back. Now let’s go for those old Prophet T-8 sounds.
Cool. Wonder if they’ll do the Emulator next 🙂
The Nords are looking nicer and nicer with the addition of the Fairlight and Mellotron sound libraries.
UVI has some great versions of the old classic 80s samplers as software plugins.