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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1975 |
| Founder | Peter Vogel, Kim Ryrie |
| Headquarters | Port Melbourne, Victoria / Sydney, New South Wales , Australia |
| Owner | Blackmagic Design |
| Website | blackmagicdesign |
Fairlight is a digital audio company based in Sydney, Australia. In 1979, it released its Series I Fairlight CMI, one of the earliest digital audio workstations (DAWs) with a digital audio sampler. Their subsequent Series II and III CMIs featured a graphic sequencer known as Page R, during a time when most computerised music sequencers required coding skills.
These computer-instruments were used by artists such as Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and Jean-Michel Jarre. They became such a prominent part of 1980s pop music that Phil Collins included the text "there is no Fairlight on this record" in the liner notes of No Jacket Required.
Fairlight has since become a manufacturer of media tools such as digital audio recording and mixing consoles.