CODE Luxe

CODE Luxe maiden voyage with periodic bassline & lead support from SE-02 and Tonestar 8106. 32 hardware filters: Mini 24dB, Obie 12dB, 8106 24dB/6dB, CS-80 holding court.

The initial horn blast benefits from a touch of our new Wavefolding circuitry as does that crisp and retro electric Harpsichord (think Elke String Machine).

Salvation Pads' borrowed "Melotron" patch (now in ROM) manages to survive persistent '02 bass and Tonestar punctuation.

A more subtle and musical "DRIVE" (formerly "fuzz") brings the warmth/grunge—you can hear it on the cheeky combo/YC-45-ish organ break.

Flutey, Fluttery, Dmaj7, is accented by the lone and lovely surviving reed patch, in our new feature reworked ROM banks.

Brassy/stringy lushness feeds the Wavefolded, Big Ben chiming and descending melody accenting.

Not sure which one of the discrete filter banks sweeps and lashes out in the culmination... but it is glorious, especially when complemented by Tonestar sub-bassing and operatic SE-02 leading.

Our new folding certainly mirrors hybrid synth tones, with its digital-esque shimmer and clang.

Same discrete SE Analog warmth and heft underneath it all.

Retiring the Ext Inputs freed up 4 CVs to control Feedback, Wavefolding, HPR (hipass resonance) and HPF (hipass cutoff) internally and via MIDI.

Enjoy—repeated listenings I hope,

MSR 3-1-25

Rhapsody In Luxe

LUXE LEADER

CODE Luxe: Luscious & alluring Monte Neuble-quality synth leads, muscular opening bass buzz, happy accident wavefolded & non, polyphonic majestics;

Tonestar8106: Multi-tracked tricky flute/brass turnaround chords;

SE-02: Fleeting but essential Reggae 'n Greg Phillinganes-inspired Funk synth bass;

—All hope to "gain honor"... on this groove of ground, sound and ether.

Desire demands design.

Filters likely employed: 24 dB Mini, 12 dB Obie, 6/24 dB Juno 8106, CS-80

Enjoy,
MSR 3.19.25

p.s. SE-3X artisan hi hat blend.

Luxe Leader

Strings in the Chamber

Praise To The Father '25

Baba Oh Really?

Elke Dreams

Read Better

Why Aren't You Here?

Waterpeace

MeloLuxe

Code Luxe Sus

Folded Wurli

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

DAWN HOPETRANE

CODE Luxe: Luscious and sometimes reversed polyphonics, perfectly percussive leads (think power banjo), ending Catero “Wurli”.

Tonestar 8106 colors: Multi-tracked chordal happenings (includes “CS-80 Wah Horns”), opening lead and bass, often hard-panned continuing bass intermittents, glorious near culmination lead—in its original key/formant.

Xtreme Lead: Tim Swartz piano clarifiers.

Boomstar 8106: “9th Avenue World” leads; mas mulit-tracked chords; “Mucca Nera” lead, flutter, supplimental glide leads; surprising bells; last minute bass uplifts; 3 part “Wurli” in-a-hurry lead-into.

Boomstar Brotherhood: Select kicks, all snares and claps—SE80 w/SEM clap.

SE-1X: Hi-Hats

"...Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning."

Enjoy,
MSR 5-16-25

Dawn Hopetrane

CODE Luxe everything (massive kick too), except for piano and luscious, extravagant, multitracked Boomstar 8106, supporting and contrasting the "ivories" at 13 seconds in.

Oh yes, Boomstar Modular Sensei delivers percussive octave bass tones beginning at :11.

New faster Luxe envelopes definitely assist in my homage here, to Stevie Wonder's immortal "I am Singing" GX-1 pluck patch.

Enjoy,
MSR 72525

8 Hours Of Yesterchords

Kudos to St. Regis eternal bandmate & friend Nick Tumler for never letting me forget this song (Love Transition) and its driving, determined changes, that Johnny Caswell (The Crystal Mansion) and I crafted into what should have become an R 'n B classic, one fine day in the QC booth at SIR's Gower Studios. "Is it me? "Is it you?" "Could it be it's really true...?"

CODE Luxe: Main chords & more chords—gorgeous in reverse per usual—(:28 "Hopesichord too"), subs, :14 cymbals, lead bass/bass leads, whistle closure.

Boomstar 8106: Kick-matched bass, multitracked chordal support, processed "guitar" leads, "When we were new" leads... plentiful and fanciful lead 'n bass cluster ensembles... poignant plucks, "Strairway" flutes, David Frank inspired "System" basses.

Boomstar SE80: Assorted Boomstar Brotherhood Drums.

Tonestar8106: Horns, New Wave-y Boomstar Bass octave double.

SE-02: Tabla Dudes

SE-3X: Hi hats

Not an exhaustive SE rundown, but close.

Enjoy,
MSR 8-27-25

Love Transition '25

CODE Luxe: Robert Lamm inspired LFO pulsed Chordal figures, feedback/drive fantasies, needle-dropped polymoods, swan song chirping.

Boomstar8106 Faux-llphonics: multitracked piano-stalking chords; stereo leads & cries (sounding very ObieRack-ish); bass accents & smoothing; soothing ending lows.

Tonestar8106: Magic Dorothy Ashby Harping.

Enjoy,
MSR

SighOp Shadows

CODE Luxe Wave-Folding made that piano possible, folks (1:53)—brilliant touch, ONEPOLYMER!

ONEPOLYMER - CODE LUXE CAN DO PIANO

Think About Yourself '25

CODE Luxe knows bass.

And polyphonic sitar, mellotron, brass connections, wurlis, marimbas, mysterious crash pads (@ :47), wave-folded fake-outs 'n' feedback, and pulse-width presence a-plenty.

Bernie Pershey on the drums (the real gated variety): https://www.berniepershey.com/

@GreccoBuratto on the smashing repurposed rock riffs, twangys, and tremelonics.

REFRESH!

Enjoy,
MSR 11-20-25

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