#fairlight

2026-01-23

Back in the olden days, when #Fairlight and #ProTools were still their own companies, I was trained on the Fairlight Constellation at a sister studio of one running Pro Tools. I came back to the Pro Tools one and was talking about how badass the Constellation was, including (but not limited to) this wonderful "rotate" knob on the panner. A traditional pan knob moves one dimensions at a time. There are also panning joysticks that enable to you two dimensions. The "rotate" knob pans around the circle. It's the same as spinning the joystick around the outer edge, but if you're starting with something panned closer to the center of a surround image, it's moving around a much smaller circle than you could do with a joystick, and if you're panning a stereo sound, it's rotating that stereo image around the circle, something I'd defy anyone to do very accurately with a pair of joysticks. I thought this knob was amazing, but one of my coworkers at the Pro Tools studio poo-poohed it, saying he'd had one of those on a console he used and thought he'd use it all the time, but he never did. I never got to use the Fairlight enough back then to tell him he was wrong, but I'm using it now and he was wrong. That knob is my new favorite way to pan things. It's amazing.

Andreas M. Heitmann :batman:AndyGER
2026-01-01

It still amazes me to see what is possible with a 1 Mhz. computer, which is more than 40 years old.

A Fayre Glow (Fairlight) - Commodore 64 - Demoscene - SID 6581

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Switching to DaVinci Resolve: Clipchamp Made Me Do It

Clipchamp kept asking me to relink the same files like we’d never met. DaVinci Resolve felt like a cockpit, but once nodes, Groups, and Fairlight clicked, the edit got fun. First multi-angle trail video incoming: Fishing Creek Revisited.

adventureadjacent.com/2025/12/

Screenshot of DaVinci Resolve 20’s Color page with the “Fishing Creek Revisited” timeline open—viewer shows an action-cam shot of the FJ’s front wheel splashing through a creek while the node graph, effects panel, and color tools (log wheels and curves) sit below a multi-clip, multi-track timeline.Clipchamp’s white loading screen with a purple Clipchamp logo and the message “Ready in a moment,” plus a Microsoft logo at the bottom; aka the screen it can get stuck on when the app refuses to launch.DaVinci Resolve 20 splash screen from Blackmagic Design—large “DaVinci Resolve 20” text on the left and a photo on the right of a person beside a massive cinema camera rig on a crane arm, with “Loading project libraries” shown near the bottom.
2025-12-09

I'm editing dialog right now with the #Fairlight page of #DavinciResolve, and it's amazing how quickly the few things I've done on a Fairlight back in the day are coming back to me, and how comfortable it feels. Still a learning curve to switch from Pro Tools and some wonky things, but feels really good.

Arjan Boltjestinyspheresof
2025-10-18

@ascentale @bikenite

A8. My new / . was last week, but I didn't find the time /bother to take pictures, yet, until this morning.


Ochre yellow racing bike, silver-coloured bottle holders, black rims, black handlebars, black saddle, saddle bag and ass-saver installed, outside on a bike stand, seen from the side.

In the foreground, asphalt covered with autumn-coloured leaves and fallen acorns. In the background, bushes with mostly green leaves.Ochre yellow racing bike, silver-coloured bottle holders, black rims, black handlebars, black saddle, saddle bag and ass-saver installed, outside on a bike stand, seen from the front at an angle.

In the foreground, asphalt covered with autumn-coloured leaves and fallen acorns. In the background, bushes with mostly green leaves.

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