CODE & Omega

SE-3X

As usual the .wav files crush these compressed versions.

SE-02

THE AMERICAN DREAM - I REALLY DON’T THINK

Main synth chords: SE3X in Paraphonic Mode

Supplemental synth chords (Chicago turnarounds): CODE Omega 8

Piano: Mid-‘70s Heirloom (Childhood): 87 Warren Drive, San Francisco, CA, Yamaha C7—which in the early '80s laughed off a dicey and punishing slide down a flight of concrete stairs (ours), reportedly generating (once bottom was rocked) a very non-joyful noise, louder than the re-creation of the the earth, this last time out; EMU Extreme Lead carves out Jazz-e-er changes

Primary synth bass & leads: SE-02, an indispensable sonic & EMOTIONAL tool BTW

Additional synth bass colors: SE-3X, Boomstar Modular Sensei System (glorious), Tonestar 8106, Midimini V30

Synth drums: Boomstar SE-80, Boomstar SEM, CODE Omega 8

Visceral ending analog: Midimini V30

Unconscious Matt Weinhold vocal channeling: Salvatore St. Regis
Additional Portugal boots-on-the ground imagery: Carlo St. Regis
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Wanted to gather and connect all the SE kin. Did, with some needle-drop .wav surfing and repurposing (that’s how I include Monte Neuble in nearly everything now—talk about indispensable feel!)

The main ‘3X riff felt complete and vibrant in solo mode; pushed on until a diversity of unity was gained, and “gained honor”

Enjoy,
MSR

The American Dream - I Really Don't Think

Once again I’m on the inside — lookin’ out looking in.

SEM-filtered CODE Omega8 & @saintregis (Instagram) bring the water and its spirit to my eyes.

Single track purity, polyphonic power and purpose: sometimes it's disclosed like that.

Minimal sweetening, limiting and spot normalization, so do enjoy the wide dynamic range and culmination—now with bonus audio!

MSR Christmastime '22

CODEberheim 8

MSR’s Needle Drops & Isos, Take 2

"I Think That Worked" (like most things until they don't)

Built on SE-3X extremely habit-forming, paraphonic chording throughout, and a legion of instant-grease 'n grind SE-02 basses. Why settle for just one (a question asked by men-y)?

SE-02 Chickin' Pickin' plays nice-nice with juicy bass figures (periodically staccato), which then feed into the faux multi-tracked '02 Wurli (right channel) and "the real thing" (left), punctuated by SE-02 Wormy Lead crew.

All of this happens in the 1st few bars, as you have now entered The Micro Musical Klymit Zone, potentially punishing with it's creative density and attention-to-detail demands, placed upon the listener.

Childhood Heirloom C7 processed piano 3 chord preach, births culminating paraphonic purpose and a frenetic '02 bass/Wurli combo orgone generation.

Enter vintage Grecco Burrato Modmax/Wolftone guitar magic (drips, drops & crunches), and absolutely adorable/incredible '02 LFO gate "Latino Tablino" electro percussion.

Additional miraculous SE-02 multi-tracked polyphony and SE-3X paraphony reveals and revels.

Percolating fake space ensues, interrupted by a booming' SE-80 kick to Super Hero soundtrack vibes—I did just get "Flashed."

Vintage St. Regis/Sembello/Neuble (Michael) 3rd Stone drop and you're almost home... "Groove" Campasso vox; easy with those dope chords.

Dreamy SE-3X surrenders to arpeggiated, mult-tracked SE-02 polyphony.
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Addl. Boomin' Boomstar Kicks, rims and selected hats were not harmed in the making of...

Enjoy,
MSR 7-5-23

I Think That Worked

First solo Omega offering still sounds stunning 21 years later.

A few secrets, snips, reverses, in-song overlays, a touch of EQ, limiting, and “Gaucho” right-side-wet, make for a nice 90 (sec).

And yes that patch change madness was tracked in real time—sans punches.

Stock SEM & Mini SE filters…

Enjoy,
MSR

Phat Fu '23

This one take rubato—groove sans tempo—SE-3X paraphonic improvisation, shares sonic and emotional space with many SE-02 “split notes” polyphony colors, indulgent ’02 basses, 70’s St. Regis Yamaha C7, Boomstar Brotherhood Drums, and careful & careless SE archive needle-dropping: ModMax/Wolftone Grecco Burrato guitars and Catero Colbert vox being highlights… at least that is what I care to remember, or wish to divulge.

My freeform lullaby & lament inspired one regular listener to write: “Had to listen several times and still hear new things, nascent melodies flying about and chattering mischief sneaking throughout a scene of almost there things, just listened again and thought I heard a real piano at 1:20-1:23. Endless discoveries.”

He did… but no mention of Third Stone Records artists St. Regis’ New Jack Swing drops!?!

Enjoy,
MSR

p.s. Easter Egg features stereo pulsed & piqued Omega8. "That was a gift."

p.p.s. InstaG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CyluI_ZOu0d/

Paraby: Through the NICU Glass

Came across this dope Ebm @MonteNeuble SE-3X  bassline, in my needle drop travels, which I had to revisit and enlist in a pulsed paraphonic exaltation in DMaj; silky chord changes from “Onward Upward UFO,” a song written & produced in the late 1970s for the St. Regis brothers, by wonderful friend and Parcourse/health food store mentor, Norman H. Landsberg, assisted that sneaky downward modulation. 

The great James Levi (Herbie Hancock fame) and strongman Gary Calvin (on bass) kept the groove going at Bear West Studios in San Francisco—1st 24 track baptism, where “UFO” was recorded—and we brothers have tried to keep the funk analog ever since. Clavinet D6 is still with us: the one Norman unveiled at St. Regis & Leuenberger and taught us to play; ‘cause he was nice with it, "Cry Baby" style.

Celebrating his remarkable life earlier this month—brilliantly and with panache, thanks to Bob Yount (Landsberg & Yount) and Socorro!—brought his lovely spirit, song, and surprising, vast accomplishments to mind:

Founding member of Mountain, featuring Leslie West; Pointer Sisters MD—“Yes We Can Can…”, Lenny Willams (Tower of Power); sampled by Jay-Z (99 Problems), Kanye West, Tribe Called Quest—heard in films like "Barbershop" and "The Taking of Pelham 123.”

His group Hammer opened up for Leon Russell AND Miles Davis at Fillmore West… Wut!?!

“When tears come, remember brighter smiles can then show."

Miss them when they are here; that’s the Power of Love—which evrybody needs.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/san-francisco-ca/norman-landsberg-11515731

https://www.discogs.com/artist/860823-Norman-Landsberg

p.s. SE-02 stereo leads :14; ‘02 “Dorothy Ashby” harp :21; incredible SE-02 Paraphonic Preach: 24; SE-3X dual leads :25; Omega8 “Phat Fu” goodness: 31, :35 Norman’s (Manny Moka) piano :33; Manny Moka And The Band on Fire heavenly perc. break: 39

Boomstar Brotherhood drums assist.

Angel Grey ‘3X photos courtesy of @vcousa

Enjoy,
MSR

Monte Moka

Once Upon a Synthplex:

Tonestar 2600 kick thumps & '80s quality "Simmons" toms + @huston.singletary ’s groove merchant ways / heavy (he is my brother) harmonic vision + layers of SE-02 “split note” polyphony & monophonic bass ’n’ lead bravery + selfless SE3X accents—paraphonic and m-phonic + Boomstar Brotherhood claps, snares, shimmering addl. perc. (Boomstar SE-80 mainly) + a sprinkling of SurgeXT + Grecco Burrato crunch vault gems + Folktek visuals, made this story...

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"Oh man. Sooooo good. A voyage into layers on layers."
 - Huston Singletary

Wait those MIDIMINI V30 "How do you beat that?" "quica" breakdowns. Nice.

Kingdom Inside—listen to it.

Enjoy,
MSR 5-18-24 / L1721
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p.s. Medium mastering to preserve dynamic range & detail; so make your 🔊🔊work!!

Kingdom Inside

ADAGIO FOR FEEDBACK

I’d like to believe Samuel Barber’s Adagio for strings cast a tender shadow on these changes & groove of mine.

Listening to Bernstein’s baton as I write this…. glorious.

CODE8: Strings mainly recorded in mono—not sure why—stereo flute/vibraphone/celeste colors, Crystal Manson “horn” blasts, Monte Moir rhythms, locked-to-clock LFO pulses, band pass rebels, reversed and initially randomly-sourced passages. AND FEEDBACK!—Crunch chords for key-man on their black ’n’ white island.

Get the heady, upper harmonic, distortion multiplier mod. for your Omega8/CODE8 today!

Boomstar SE-80: Snares, perc.

SE-3X: Hats, big bass note.

Grecco Burrato: Unarchived ModMax Pedals-blessed guitars.

SE-02: Immaculate basses and leads.

Stay tuned for the Prequel.

Best,
MSR 12-5-24

Adagio For Feedback

Prequel & Adagio For Feedback

CODE8: More stereo flute/marimba/celeste colors; Winwood leads; Crystal Mansion horn blasts; reversed and initially randomly-sourced passages; layered strings mainly recorded in mono—not sure why; @montemoir (inspired) bangers; locked-to-clock LFO pulses; band-pass rebels; 12dB filter envelope-driven bursts; location-aware Middle Earth detune spasm...

AND FEEDBACK!

Get the heady, upper harmonic distortion, warmth multiplier mod. for your Omega8/CODE8 today: https://studioelectronics.com/support/contact/

Boomstar SE-80: Snares, perc.

SE-3X: Main hats, big bass note.

@greccoburatto Unarchived (and yet juicy) ModMax Pedals-blessed guitars.

SE-02: Immaculate Keys 2 basses and leads.

Sumptuous and stirring (some would opine meditative) very recent #japantravel visuals (includes magically in-key bird song) courtesy of Carlo St. Regis.

Enjoy,
MSR 12-16-24

Prequel And Adagio For Feedback

Saved our lives one night from the great beyond: "MARY!".

As did Maria Therezia Capretta Theriot St. Regis.

Some of you spoke to our 1st gen. Italian American mom on the phone, about your Midimoog/SE-1, or were blessed to meet her/know her... listen to her stories, like the childhood fire story hidden in plain sight here.

Beautiful, cagey, often hilarious sparkling soul and singer of touching & torchy songs, she was, and remains in our eyes: A daughter who missed her mother, mystified by the persistence of memory, seemingly without mass or momentum.

Call her and she'll be around.

PS: Felecia's Cry is an Omega/CODE patch and mom's mom's Ellis Island standardized name.

CODE Luxe Dreams & Slaps - Repurposed (and brilliant) @vcousa SE-3X Feedback Rhythms - Tonestar 8106 Bass Brotherhood - "Kingdom Inside" double dips.

Enjoy,
Marc A. Theriot St. Regis
4-10-25

Felicetta's Cry

Once upon a drum machine, The Brothers St. Regis had to part with their beloved, stock TR-808; before it left the building, Greg St. Regis programmed this beat: "HE is The Rhythm Man, tapping at he backseat..." Several summers passed and it again found favor in their sight, after hundreds of cuts & creases and "Boomstar Brotherhood" SE-80 percussion pieces. Soon Rhodes chords followed the Rhythm-Man's-flow. It is commonly believed bass was next (30+ tracks): driving, testifying, border-defying Midimini V30, in the lead role, with wildly versatile and colorful programmable support from the SE-02. 10 or so passes of Omega 8—essentially MIDI Channel 1/1980’s style—broadened and brightened the Gospel of Chordal Excellence. The Oracle at Ableton/Atlanta spoke a Wayne Shorter spirit into the leads, so the SE-02 and Midimini began stacking up the solo flights, fighting and reuniting like play-cousin nights. Voices from the “Family Herrre” Chorus preached and ascended majestically—though soothingly prosaic at times—inspiring, shaping, begging, cajoling, demanding, elevating and refining the piece to unforeseen coherence and towering heights… feigning silence for moments, only to reanimate through & beyond fragmentation challenges with that magical dialect and love from The Lou.

"Consider all that."

FINIS

Captain’s log supplemental: 1182021:

Most if not all of the polyphonic detail work (apart from the Waves Morphoder vocoding), not tracing or amplifying the piano track MIDI, rather often clustering around spoken and sung WORD, like a gritty reverent glitter (WORD, arguably entirely too sacrosanct to digitally preserve… to orchestrate, yet now its dope message moves forward and out), was tracked note by Motu's brilliant “Split Notes” feature in DP10: Midimini V30 and SE-02 battling again for the muse’s attention/affection. There is no other DAW ;)

Original Midimini on the 1st and last conspicuous bass slides.

Additional Cameos: Modstar Sensei, Tonestar 8106, 2600.

Writers: Marc St. Regis, Greg St. Regis
Produced by MSR
Executive Producer Adrian Drummond

Special thx to Drummond, Sean Charles and Huston Singletary.

Prequel And Adagio For Feedback

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