Just The Five is a solo project by Rich from Lower West Side Studio.  Electronic music produced by Just The Five is often ambient and experimental and is designed to provoke an emotional response.

Just The Five

A tune I wrote while testing various synthesizers in my studio while watching a Star Trek marathon devoted to Spock.

This track was created using a Yamaha Motif XF6, Moog Sub 37, Ploytec PL2, Korg MS2000 and some Roland Space Echo

Read about it here; https://richsstudioproject.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/bye-bye-spock-bye-bye/

Performance by: Just The 5

Bye Bye Spock Bye Bye

Don't feel empty enough today?  Enjoy!

Written to celebrate Drone Day 2016 - Happy Drone Day!

http://droneday.org

Performance by: Just The 5

Earth Hole

Just received my Synthesizers.com Q960 Sequencer today.  This patch utilizes the Q960, Q174 MIDI Module & Q175 MIDI Interface Aid (with arpeggiator), 3 Q106 Oscillators, a Q107 State Variable Filter, a DJ Thomas White / Bucla Triple Low Pass Filter, 2 Oakley Classic VCAs, an Oakley Dual LFO, a Q109 Envelope Generator, a Frequency Central System X ADSR Envelope Generator and a couple of multiples.  I think that's everything.

Anyway this is a simple arpeggiation with sequencing that I thought was a pretty cool first test so I thought I'd share.

Performance by: Just The 5

Q960 Sequence 1 In C

While playing around with my modular synthesizer and a couple of other synths in the studio I created this creepy sequence.  It made me think of an old episode of The Twilight Zone called "To Serve Man".  I added some clips from the episode (used without permission) and added a drum track as an afterthought.  I thought I'd share it.

Rights to The Twilight Zone are owned by the various copyright holders.  Please buy their DVDs and downloads to support them.

Performance by: Just The 5

It's A Cookbook

Modules to create the patch included Synthesizers.com Q106 Oscillators, PAiA 9720 Oscillators, Catgirl CGS01 Sub Oscillators, a Q960 Sequencer, Oakley Discrete Ladder Filters, Barton Switched Resistor Filters, Oakley, Dotcom and PAiA VCFs and a pile of support modules.

Performance by: Just The 5

I'm Outta Patch Cords

An experiment utilizing a Cat Girl Synth CGS01 driven by an Oakley Dual LFO processed through a CGS22 Master Divider.  The output then goes through a Q172 Quantizer aid and a drives a pair of Synthesizers.com Q106 oscillators.  One oscillator passes through a Q107 State Variable Filter while the second passes through an Oakley Discrete Ladder Filter.  Pulse and ramp waves are also taken from these oscillators and run into a second CGS01 where the sub-oscillator output is run into a DJ Thomas White low pass gate.  The outputs of all filters are then mixed through an Oakley Multimix.  Meanwhile a Q960 sequencer's 24 stage output is also quantized by a Q171 then run into the 1V/Oct inputs of the oscillators.  The Q960 also gates the Oakley Classic VCA which provides the mixed output.  Meanwhile gates from the Q960 trigger a BMC018 Analog Drum which is run into a Q115 Reverb then into a second Classic VCA.  There is also a Pigtronix echo, EHX Electric Mistress and Nano Holy Grail Reverb in the effects loop of the mixer processing the output of the oscillators.  There's a bit more going on too but this is a decent description of the main patch.

Icon graphic from the movie Logan's Run copyright MGM Studios

Run Logan Run

SWAN modular synthesizer backed by Moog Sub 37 and Yamaha Motif XF6.
It's a mood piece that probably goes well with a glass of wine and a candle while having a nice warm tub.  Don't fall asleep though as you could drown : (

Performance by: Just The 5

Wine Candle Tub

Synth track utilizing SWAN modular, Moog Sub 37, EMU ESI-2000 and a Korg Volca Beats.  Spun out of a patch used to test a new MFOS Sequencer.  Done in a single take.

Minor EQ, compression and panning added for mixdown.

Performance by: Just The 5
Image by : Imery Watson

Straylight

This track was done as an example of a few modular features for some threads on Muff Wiggler's 5U site.   (https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=193396)

Not terribly musical but it has a good beat and you can dance to it.

The duophonic keyboard portion is controlled by a PAiA MIDI2CV8 module switched to Duophonic mode (Mode 7).  It is driving a Music From Outer Space VCO and an Oakley "1 of 3" VCO.  Both are then processed by a Yusynth Minimoog filter.

A second, grittier, voice generated by a CGS01 Sub Oscillator running through a Thomas White LPG and modulated by a Jupiter Storm is laid over the thick backbone .

The first sequence is generated on a Q960 driving a pair of Dotcom Q106s. They are running through a Yusynth Arp 4072 filter.  That's being modulated by a Galilean Moons envelope with its Attack and Decay each modulated by different envelopes.  This makes each filter sweep unique.

The second sequence is driven by a Music From Outer Space 16 Step Sequencer running through a pair of PAiA 9720 VCOs into a CGS49 Dual Wasp filter.  This sequence fades in at about 1:44 and ends the piece.

Clocking for the sequencers was driven by an Oakley Dual LFO which was then processed by a variety of time slicers including a CGS22 Master Divider, Yusynth Clock Divider and CGS06 Burst Generator.

There is a lot more to the patches than listed but this covers the primary guts of the patches.

Duo Sequence Bop performed by Just The 5

Performance by: Just The 5

Track I wrote after thinking about an old friend who's no longer with us.  He was a great guy and a pioneer in the field of arcade video games.  Miss you Big Al!

Glip

Ambient background synth track

Icon graphic by: Enrique Pacheco

Tango Light

Performance by Just The 5 with special guest First Winter

Originally done as a noise demo with Hexinverter' Jupiter Storm and Galilean Moons modules the track quickly turned into a background rhythmic pattern.  The track was then passed on to FW who added a subtle layer of sounds that blend perfectly into the overall gestalt of the track.

Storm Over Jupiter

Whilst experimenting with with an interesting little sequence I started playing around with other synths in the area.  This is the result.  Straight off the floor with some compression on the noisy bits.

I hope you enjoy it.

Journey Man

What started as an attempt at a Krell Patch turned into a cacophony of sounds.   The backing modular track utilizes a Hexinverter Galilean Moons and a CGS114 DUSG along with a pile of other goodies.  The main oscillators are PAiA 9720s.

Accompanying tracks are played on DSI Prophet '08, Moog Phatt Bastard and a Yamaha Motif XF.

Track was recorded as a single take with no post-production.

Krelly - by Just The 5

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