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Fairlight
 This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • $9.99
  • Category: Music
  • First released: March 18, 2011
  • Versions: 1 archived
  • Installable: 1 of 1
  • Seller: Fairlight Instruments Pty Ltd

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

Customer Ratings

As of November 30, 2020
     
19 Ratings

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1.0
Requires iOS 4.0+
Retina (iPhone only)
March 18, 2011
52.9 MB Install Download

Chart History

Top Grossing · iPad View chart ›
Peaked at #78 (March 19, 2011) · 1 archived capture · Mar 2011
Top Paid · Music View chart ›
Peaked at #169 (July 31, 2021) · 1 archived capture · Jul 2021

Ratings Over Time

sampled from 6 archived captures
DateVersionRatingRatingsPrice
March 22, 2011 25 $9.99
February 21, 2012 51 $9.99
December 4, 2013 72 $9.99
December 17, 2017 2.3.2 93 $9.99

From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.

Archived Reviews

8 of 25
Doesn’t work. Dev awol.
     
by KC1974 · November 5, 2022

Didn’t work on iOS 14, and then did work on iOS 14, and now on iOS 15 it doesn’t work again. Just crashes immediately. To think I spent $50 on this. Shame as I liked Page R. We can all get Arturia and UVI VSTs of the CMI, but losing access to Page R is the most frustrating part of this seemingly being abandoned. I say abandoned because there’s zero support for this.

no update, no support
     
by David Farley · January 10, 2017

People who upgraded to Pro instead of purchasing the Pro version didn't get the recent update. Web site and support page is dead. This is cool app, but I'm not going to repurchase to get updates.<br/><br/>Update - they fixed it so five stars. Thanks!

Excellent for simulation, Bad for my wallet
     
by leviathaninc · October 1, 2018

You load up the sim, and it feels like sitting down at the keyboard. The buttons click, the background hums, its great. But when I pay $10.00, I expect the full thing. If you think I'm unlocking the full thing for $50.00, you're crazy.

Beloved, with caveats
     
by csgraves · September 25, 2024

Good, but as of Pro 2.4.3, on an iPad Pro running ipados 18, intel chip, it does not allow me to change the names of individual songs, and the play buttons in the sample pane shrink unexpectedly, rendering them near impossible to tap or press. I love the idea of this, and want to use it to spur some creativity, but there are just a couple of roadblocks along the way.

This is so complicated on here
     
by Jayden the Goose · June 11, 2025

This is very hard and can’t change a voice of its like I would never use this horrible app again.

Legendary
     
by CDBDodgers · May 2, 2020

I mean I’ve gotta admit, this thing right here is the sound of the 80’s. Best synthesizer available on the App Store! I do plan on buying the pro version until I get enough money. Though I do think that $49.99 (Basically $50) is a lot just for one app, but y’know, the CMI III was literally used to create a whole entire soundtrack for a movie, (Terminator II: Judgment Day), so I guess it gets a pass. Overall, this app is very amazing and I enjoy it. Thank you.

App quits on open…
     
by Walrus0106 · June 10, 2021

iPhone XS iOS 14.6

Too buggy and too pricey
     
by TBMisamazing · November 4, 2019

I really want to like this app more, but it's just way too buggy, especially for what the developer charges. I would eventually like to get the Pro version for the authentic Fairlight experience; however, this version doesn't inspire any sort of confidence that I would get my money's worth were I to upgrade... Before I updated to 2.4, I had issues with connectivity and midi not working properly. Now with 2.4, it won't respond to polyphonic note input, be it from the internal onscreen keyboard, or from an external source. I've found out it's a bug, because only 2 times since the recent update have I been able to get it to play polyphonically, and each time when I closed the app, polyphony was lost. If you really want Fairlight sounds, you're best off getting this Lite version, and sampling it inside of a DAW.<br/><br/>To add salt to the wound, the developer has never responded to any of my emails inquiring about and addressing bugs (dating to 2 years back when I purchased this), and the app rarely gets updated (making it borderline abandonware), so you're left with a barely functional app. It's truly overpriced for what you get, even at half the price. Unfortunately, I'm not very optimistic that this will ever get on par with other sampler apps. Hopefully the developer proves me wrong.

Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.

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