Already sent a support ticket about this, but in retrospect, this would be a better place for it.
I tried out the CMI V demo last night. It has a lot of potential, but sadly, what holds me back from using it as a sampler is that, sans the filter and the samplerate/bitrate adjustments, it’s just another piecewise interpolation sampler limited to the samplerate clock of the host, whereas the actual Fairlight (and the sampling engine of the Synclavier) were variable clock rate. What this means is that the amount of aliasing is fairly consistent no matter what key you press, a significant contrast to when you play, for instance, three whole steps down from the root note instead of an octave.
Are there any plans to implement oversampling like for the Synclavier V, that said? I realize it takes a bit of CPU as it is, so it makes perfect sense to me if you choose not to oversample by at least 8x. However, I’ve been working on a VST of my own that uses an interpolation method that sounds very faithful to variable-clock samplers without the need to oversample by more than 4x, an interpolation method I’m willing to give over if you express interest.
Regardless, thank you for your time, apologies for the technical content of this message, and definitely a great start!