"Jasen Betts" bravely wrote to "George White" (12 Oct
03  09:18:52)
 --- on the heady topic of "VEHICLE LED'S"

 JB> 09-Oct-03 21:13:33, George White wrote to Roy J. Tellason

 GW> How would I know? As I said above, I've never come across another
 GW> use of them. The only musical instrument I've seen with a floppy
 GW> is the fully loaded Fairlight a friend of mine has, that uses 5.25
 GW> disks.

 JB> cool... Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) that was the first
 JB> digital sampler.  Made in australia :)  before that samples were done
 JB> using tape...

 JB> I've seen MIDI keyboards with 3.5" floppy drives,
 JB> I expect that in new equipment they probably use compact flash, or
 JB> memory stick etc instead.


IIRC, the Mirage used a 5-1/4" floppy that could be formatted on a PC.
It had 8 bit sampling. The Fairlight used 12 or 16 bits not sure.

 Mike
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