From the title, I had expected to hear something that sounds like a classic Vangelis CS80 here. Didn't hear that in *any* of the tracks -- mostly just a lot of overdriven sequences. What's the sonic range of this? Will it sound like a monophonic CS80?

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What Is Real? (prod. chillingcat)

Tough, inventive, no-nonsense genre-bending hook-laden guitar-based multi-ethnic dance-music, that flouts convention.

BestLife

Power'ouse Mix

I usually tweak with the right hand... 

Boomstar SE80/short 1/4 to 1/4/Saffire PRO 14.  Sentence fragments tend to cut to the chase best.  Arpeggiator courtesy of DP8, right hand (and left) courtesy of Marc St. Regis.  This is not an attempt at music making in the classic sense, rather an initial "soundquest."

Lefty SE80 One Take

Freeform, deep diving, high soaring Boomstar SE80 Flow... cuts made where electronic blood needed to flow ;)

Copy and paste festival seating at end - didn't want that little sound to end.

And yes that lovely spiritual haunts me yet from grade school.

MSR

Swing Low Sweet SE80 Chariot

Freer

What happens when one disappears into the wilderness road of one's mind (and mighty-mighty DP8) with a Boomstar SE80, a little help from its friends: Boom*s 4075, 5089, SEM, 3003, no fixed deadlines, the power and elegance of Kontakt, and a desire to inspire and be inspired?  This piece "right there"—my two and a half year old daughters' go to phrase.

The Boomstar SE80 got the party started early with its remarkable capacity to generate very warm, acoustic sounding drum sounds, in addition to the emblematic, voltage-flavored fare.  Hundreds of samples later—some put through "Waves" paces—I dragged my favs into a new sequence window at bar 1, with a fixed tempo, sans bar lines, and no particular key signature in mind.

Very non-random, if avant garde sounding patterns and melodies emerged, preparing me for an immersion headlong into West African rhythms, and demanding an extended vacay to the Isle of Dub.  Once those pillars were in place all of the Stevie, Gino, Duke, Cameo, Zap, Monte Moir, and St. Regis (the band yo) chords, leads, and turns—produced by both the 4075 and SE80 Boomstars—colored and kept pushing until the Roger "vocalisms" of the dual resonant SE80 filters sat atop the throne, playing the solo diva, wowing the key Dub backbeats, and hitting the combo-organy voicing stretches.  It was with great difficulty that I backed away the ’80's knobs and switches, because of that intoxicating "vocality and warmth.”

The drums, excepting one distorted fill which I enjoyed complimenting and co-opting with synthiness, the triangle (Drew Nuemann’s brilliant 3003 creation recorded at 3% of unity—it’s true Drew!), a crisp D. Neumann tom design (4075), a very Mike Neuble-ish 16th note triplet figure (SEM), an open hi hat (SEM), the crash cymbal (SEM), and the "Bonham" room mic kick drum from “Boomstar the Beguine” (SEM), were generated by the SE80; I made far more samples than I could press into service, but it was most enjoyable slipping and sliding them in whenever I could.

All of the leads are single sample stretches in Kontakt, or sampled performances (some of which went under the knife and tune); the chords are a mix of the same and individually tracked single note performances, which were in turn repurposed/retuned in various places spectrally in DP.  The more percussive and filter driven polys represent the latter.  It was amazing how good the "stretches" sounded—kind of reminded me of working with valve instruments and their gradually lower register, longer and slower envelopes ramps.

A bit of Boomstar 5089 begins supporting the last half of the Dub groove with a bass double, figure, and slide or two, snapping once in the 1st Movement (a pull from the “Shootout at the Boomstar Corral” YouTube vid for those still awake).  The B* Moog filter also supplies the sub in the rejected “Simon Says” soundtrack moodiness in Movement 5.  The piano and synth patches are from GarageBand, ported in via that .aiff stripping trick.  

Boomstar 4075 gets its Gary Wright/Rene and Angela 2600 bass groove on, above the 5089 sub fray, yet under it's own classic lead sound; a bony redux of Movement 3’s “Moir-ish” charm brings the effort to a conclusion.

Boomstar 5089 boomed both the intro bass and 1:53 breakdown.

Lest I forget, the SE80 freeform synth jazz dance of the 4th Movement (3:03), grinds into “that perfect machine voice like ELP's, "I am perfect are you!" Directly following it is my friend Dan’s “kind of atmospheric, distorted, Tomita-esque mood till 4:51 whence come the mysterious morse code signals from the nether reaches of outer space.”  All of which follows the sub movement (small m) of the SE80 Beat/Glitch Boxing: the punctuation for the preceding micro Glam Synth beatdown. 

Final Note: The ambient, “spooky sound starting at 0:43 which weaves underneath awhile,” following the 1st Movement (really another sub movement…), is an SEM lead subjected to generous Paulstretching in Audacity.

And do c.f. http://tinyurl.com/nmk7rfx for your purest listening pleasure!

Special Thanks to David Bowie whose fascinating, multimbral life and entertainment genius distracted and reinvigorated me near project’s end; throw Gino Vannelli into that motivational kettle as well—THAT VOICE!  Well, as my beloved mother Maria Therezia was wont to say without undue emphasis: "He's an Italian."

Enjoy near responsibly, preferably over some worthy Genelecs or Audix speaks,
Marc Alexandre Theriot St. Regis  6-24-14

(Quoted commentary by Peri O’Meri)

Roman Bayou's Cinq: SE80 Beats ’n Band in a Boomstar Box, in 5 (or so) Movements

An autumn afternoon at the Champs de Mars by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. A red balloon makes its way through the September skies towards the infinite, across the oceans of water and time, through the distances of geography, dancing its dance over the clouds and painting a rainbow in the gray skies of autumn.



Produced by Grecco Buratto, Marconi de Morais and Sandro Feliciano. 

Recorded by Benny Faccone and Mixed by Moogie Canázio.
Painting by S.U.S.H., Photograph by Caesar Lima, Art Design by Jeri Heiden at Smog Design

Grecco Buratto - Vocals and Acoustic Guitar 
Zé Luís Nascimento -  Percussion 
Francis Varis - Accordion
Antonio Carmona - Background Vocals and Additional Percussion


O Amor a Voar (G. Buratto)


Vai pelo céu 
Passeando no azul 
Vai voando rumo ao infinito 
Vai de encontro ao sol 
Num ballet pelo ar 
Meu amor a voar pelo mundo

Vai pelo mar 
Navegando ao léu 
Sobre as ondas do tempo, invisível 
Uma gota de dor 
Uma nau de papel 
Uma lágrima encheu o oceano

De beleza, de cor 
De tristeza, de amor 
Das lembranças que trago comigo
Das canções ao luar 
Teu olhar, Praia Mar 
De te ver num espelho sorrindo

Corações a pulsar 
Um balão a bordar 
O teu nome nas nuvens de outono
Corações a brincar 
Um balão a pintar 
Um arco-íris no céu de setembro

Foi meu amor 
Ganhou asas, voou 
Foi buscar o seu próprio destino 
Navegando no azul 
Sobre as ondas do mar 
Uma lágrima cai , infinita

É a beleza, é a dor 
A tristeza e a cor 
Das lembranças que levo comigo 
Caminhar ao luar 
Na cidade , o lugar 
Onde tudo teve seu início

Corações a pulsar 
Uma nau a bordar 
O teu nome no mar de Santiago
Corações a brincar 
Um balão a pintar 
Um arco-íris no céu de setembro 
Corações a amar 
E o amor a voar 
Pelos céus de Paris nesse inverno

12-09-06

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Published by Agora Eu Sei Songs/SESAC

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O Amor A Voar

Aaron Todd's dynomite growling SE80 Boomstar funk can be heard at the head of the piece, and the Tonestar Folktek 5089 / Toolbar / Quadnic (with I, MSR at the helm) handles  the balance. Quadnic is being colored/enveloped by the TF5089's EXT IN—brilliantly adding warmth and vibe to the 8bit 4 voice poly dco.

Aaron Boomstar and the Funky Quad Folktek

Factory songs recorded from the SE-02.  There are two songs total.

SE-02 Factory Songs

Learned from a youtube video. Just had to learn it because it's such a great tune. It revolutionized my understanding of chords on the Irish BC accordion.

Metsakukkia - Finnish Waltz in Amin

The tablas @ 2:56 like Mary Tyler Moore make it all seem worthwhile (suddenly or otherwise).

Absolutely desirable vocal grinding and throat-singing bass beginning @ 0:30 front-load, and funk encode, with each turn and every little movement it shows... it.

Condensed, re-composed, and contrived-down 11+ minutes of glorious dual-resonance SE-80 one-taking, from our SoundCloud sanctuary, when the world was newer—because... the reason is never because—and the SOUND Brother!

Lefty 2020 - Bomstar SE80

Feel good vibes, the kind that'll walk you through a windows 95 installation without loosing your shit.  Where was thing track when it was most needed? 
- This is the backing track to one of the first in-house videos I did for Modal. (Covering Modal VST).

Tutorial

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.

Family Herrre

Having fun layering an assortment of patches I dialled into my 2004 Studio Electronics Omega 8..  

I have always liked the array of multi-mode filters this synth has to offer - it adds a great deal more sonic potential to an often overlooked and very capable analog beast.

NB:  Although it might sound like it, no phasers were used in this recording.. what you are hearing is copious use of the superb band-pass and high-pass filters in the Omega 8 being modulated by the LFOs.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2021.

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