Fairlight CMI Series III

The Fairlight CMI Series III is a sampling synthesizer and digital workstation released in the mid-1980s.

Stewart Copeland's Fairlight CMI Series III
Stewart Copeland was a well-known user of the Fairlight CMI synthesizers. The Fairlight CMI Series III was one of them, which he employed for composing various soundtracks, ballet pieces and film scores (using the Fairlight's Page R function) during the mid-late 1980s. Including The Equalizer and Wall Street, the latter of which is especially "100% Fairlight" (in Stewart's own words). He'd occasionally drive a Kurzweil sampler with the Fairlight as well.

Stewart had two Series III Fairlights to compose with, along with a Series II(X). He sold both Series III's via auction on ebay in 2014, with original road cases - one of these Fairlights had a complete Series III sampling system, and one appears to have a Series II keyboard incuded.

Andy Summers' Fairlight CMI Series III
Andy Summers owned a Fairlight CMI Series III, which he bought in late 1986 after finishing the XYZ album. He first used it for composing the film score for End of The Line at his home studio, synchronising the Page R sequencer with a multitrack tape machine and a Sony U-Matic video deck.