ZYNC Records on Instagram: "The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) is a groundbreaking digital synthesizer, sampler, and audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight. Developed from a licensed version of the Qasar M8 created by Tony Furse of Creative Strategies in Sydney, Australia, it was among the first electronic music workstations to feature an integrated sampler. The Fairlight is also credited with popularizing the very term sampling in music. Rising to prominence in the early