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Kim Ryrie
Australian engineer, co-creator of the Fairlight CMI.
After hearing Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach, Kim Ryrie set out to build a better synthesizer, joining school friend Peter Vogel to found Fairlight in Sydney in 1975 and build the Fairlight CMI.
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Peter Vogel, Kim Ryrie, Fairlight INSTRUMENT
The first polyphonic digital sampling synthesizer, released 1979.
INSTRUMENTS TECHNOLOGY