Roland GAIA 2 Synthesizer: Mike's Fav New & Improved Features
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- The new Roland GAIA 2 synthesizer is here! This synth is an absolute workhorse, capable of just about any synth sound you can dream up and is incredibly intuitive to use. Whether your track calls for a classic analog-style arpeggiated lead, or a crystalline digital pad sound, the GAIA2 is up to the task. Ideal for performers as well as producers, seasoned synthheads and first synth buyers, the GAIA 2 has got something for everyone.
✅ 3 oscillator sound engine (1 wavetable oscillator + 2 x VA oscillators)
✅ X/Y 'Motional' Touch Pad
✅ 64-step sequencer with motion recording
✅ 2 LFOs capable of modulation step sequencing
✅ 3 envelopes
✅ Huge selection of creative FX
✅ Multi-mode filter with overdrive
✅ 37 high quality full size keys
✅ Intuitive hands-on interface
✅ Compatible with Roland's model expansions (comes with SH-101 model)
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You single handedly managed to show this synth is much more than its built-in presets. It sounds incredible.
thanks very much, GAIA2 is great fun and super capable 💪
I am an original Gaia owner, The Gaia2 is not an update, but a whole new synth; so, for Gaia owners this will not be a 3 layer of everything synth like we have come to love. The Gaia2 is going to compliment my Gaia though with better sounding oscillators and much more modulation options. But the Gaia2 cannot do what the Gaia can and vice-versa. I will never sell my Gaia!
I think the synth is good for techno, psytrance and dnb. Hard synth presets but i would like to see more some stuffs for house, ambient and retrowave.
Many thanks, the more interesting demo i've seen till now about this synth. We can better understand what's under the hood... and there's a lot !
Great little synth......I'm sold ! .......I think that's the first time I heard someone say 'Super Hectic'
Awesome!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Sounds crisp and clean just like Id expect from Roland.
That patch at 4:25 is quite amazing. Send it this way.
Thank you so much for your awesome Demo! This will so helpful to reference. Mine should be here today! Lol. Have a great weekend 😀. Mark Bensette Aux Bois 🇨🇦.
I was originally going to get the Minifreak but this has really caught my eye and now I'm likely going to get this instead
Oh boy I need to play with one of these.
you'd dig it!
Liam Howlett's probably got one on order now!
Your presentation is the best so far. The way the sections are divided, the motional pad and the velocity button (not to mention the sound itself) had me willing to buy it rn. I was looking to buy a Minilogue XD but now the Gaia 2 have me divided
Thanks very much Sam! Big fan of the minilogue xd as well, tough choice! GAIA2 is definitely more flexible + far more polyphony, but minilogue gives you the genuine analog flavour + expandable multi-engine. Go down to a shop and try them both if you can, GAIA2 stock isn't far off.
@@StoreDJ_online fact is if we could afford, we'd buy them 2 and even more, right? Lol
Unfortunately these synths are pretty expensive here in Brazil so it's a tough choice. Not to mention the main keyboard(s)
They have a direct scatter effect as MFX now. Was pondering about that a while ago playing with the mc101 that only has that as pad effect..
This sounds ace. Love it. Raaaaaaaaaaa🖤🖤🖤
Cheers! It's a fun synth!
@@StoreDJ_online the dude demoing it is class. He’s great at doing these
Appreciate the very kind feedback ❤😊
Synth sounds great and so does Mike's voice. Whoever put this together did great work.
This synth looks dope! I agree with your sentiment on it being a synth for sound design instead of just keyboard users
For sure, there's so many hidden surprises on this synth, great fun!
Hopefully Roland will release a stage version, as this is a studio tabletop and bedroom version
I like the sounds , wondering if this synth would be a good addition to my collection since I have Korg wavestate and modwave, argon 8, hydrasynth desktop, waldorf blofeld and waldorf iridium desktop in the digital collection of my synths. advice needed here.
That's quite a collection! You'd probably have the sounds covered already, but if you wanted to explore the deep modulation and interesting FX then GAIA2 could be a fun addition
I first thought it was a new Korg Minilogue with an XY/Kaoss Pad ... but no - it's a Roland :) Pitty it doesn't have ACB (confirmed y/n?)
Don't believe so, Model Expansions look to be done with zencore
It sounds super diabolical
The sounds are great so is the price
Velocity button on system 8 too
interesting is this 2 VA OSC's is also Sample based like it was on first or it's another 15th instrument on Zencore engine? review looks really good at all, thanks!
Thanks! It's zencore based true synthesis, not PCM sampled waveshapes like the original
@@StoreDJ_online yeah, I thought it is. But Zen Core sounds more HiFi i think, maybe it have a slightly changed engine. Anyway it sounds cheap to me
It actually has its own engine. Completely original. The model expansions are ZEN-Core based, but not the synth itself. It has a special chip which allows it to switch between sound engines, though the filter is based on the Fantom.
They actually explain this on Anderton’s channel.
@@ecclesoul I own a lot of synths, I used a lot of synths, I believe my ears 1000% and I don't like how it sounds
@@NatLifeSounds That’s totally fine. I just wanted to clear up the confusion.
Getting some stranger things vibes on the sh101 model
They do this colour so they can charge more for limited edition Black.
Can i record my own melodies on usb and than transfer those melodies to ableton ?
Sounds like I can be a 90s rave superstar with this lol
😅
the 90s sounds are absolutely back 😈
Im Looking for 80s leads sound, something moogy. ?
tinkering with the drive settings on the filter you can get close to a Moog sound, but doesn't have the phat sound of the real thing
I don’t know why I don’t like this synth… It has EVERYTHING I like (except it’s digital but Roland have the best sound engine)
I don’t know, at first I was crazy pumped then I watched videos and……..nothing happened in me.
Roland really don't have the best sound engine. Behringer JT4000 for $49 sounds better. The JDXI was pants too. All their plugins sound pants too!
I have the original Gaia, I've made sound designs on this synth that no one could imagine came from those thin oscillators, but when you make gigantic chords on this 64 voice poly, you don't need or want fat oscillators for that. The Gaia2 is certainly different from the Gaia, smaller chords will sound bigger.
@@petewigley9985
Exatly MY thoughts...and people getting angry at me, writing this. I'm waiting for the Behringer Mini VS which blew my socks off (100 USD!), even via RUclips it sounded massive and non-sterile, that's the difference.
It’s funny the look reminds me of Alesis Ion
The Alesis Ion was such a good synth! Hope Alesis come back to synths one day
Any supersaw presets?
heaps!
Sounds huge. 4:28 reminds me of the Arrival soundtrack.
We're suckers for a big SciFi sound 😁
The Roland Boutiques taught me when you stack (unison) quality oscillators with great preamps and DACs for a digital mono synth, they get as big as any analog.
Is this Zencore engine or Plugout?
Zencore we believe
is this have some real difference? yeah ACB is better but in fact it still very digital synth, or better say VST in hardware case that sounds not better than Serum but cost in 10 times more.
@@NatLifeSounds Clicking around a screen is awful. Knob per function is what keyboard players want. The rest is talent.
11:47 stranger things has nothing on that sound ❤
If I didn't see the synth (in a blind test) I would think it's a good Cubase VST synth, lol. The interface is impressive though, I wish my Korg Radias would look like this, a touch-pad is always a good addition to a synth. (like on the Korg Z1, decades ago)
Just throw in a true analogue filter and it'll will sound better... :-)
Yeah, you seem to would be more hybrid instruments, which is what I would be really interested. I wish somebody would create a great affordable, digital analog hybrid.
@@joebrewer4529 Check out Arturia's Minifreak, analog filter and lots of digital oscillator possibilities, love that synth
@@StoreDJ_online yeah that’s been on the list. I had to stop. I bought a bunch of stuff and then I had to recollect in my head what I should get. The one thing I wish since makers would do this what model did with their bigger cobalt argon synths. Is have a little space to the right where you can sit a laptop for some kind of device on the scent itself instead of having it on the table or something to serve have it flush with a scent so you could use it in a certain way.
Yes we know, sure I’ve seen you post similar elsewhere with equivalent disingenuousness.
Thank God it's NOT just another annoying ANALOGUE Synth...or WORSE...a damn Copy/Clone of one..only issue is the Spastic WHEELS and not a proper pitch bend lever
YES!!! The digital synth has much more possibilities than an analog, add to that polyphony far beyond analog and you get a chord synth that makes sounds NO analog can. ( I have 3 very good analog synths, these cover most my analog needs). I hate menus, so any digital with analog controls I am excited.
Great video thanks, but voiceover level is way below instrument level… could do with balancing out for easier listening. 👍
Thanks!
So... Roland made some Hydrasynth patches for Zencore and put in a Minilogue case... Cool. Awesome. Wow.
Hydra's use mutators like FM synthesis for its signature sound, the Gaia2 is VA with traditional subtractive architecture. To get a Hydra and Gaia to sound alike it would have to be a very simple patch. The advantage of the Gaia has always been lots of polyphony that only digital can provide with analog (knob-per-function) quick access to sound design.
@@WildernessMusic_GentleSerene Shhhhh...people wont get it.
??? People won't buy it, or people won't understand what I am talking about? Until Boutiques, getting a knob per function digital synth was extremely rare, so any time a digital is available with polyphony over 24 voices and with huge tactile surface control like the original Gaia and this new Gaia2 I am buying it. @@DALTRON666
Exactly, why name it Gaia? its a new Product... marketing fail... Finaly a great new product though a proper instrument, .... no more beam sensor.......
Er. Im not The Prodigy. It all sound really samey. 🤷♂️. I won’t be able to read that tiny screen either. Gutted. Oh well. Ill keep looking.
The original was more my thing. Besides, the mushy buttons on this one, not a fan. With a synth that has that much hands on controls it’s sad they didn’t make them more tactile friendly.
Seems like Roland are running out of names for their synths. This really isn't anything like the original gaia. I'll pass on it. Good short review though orher than your low microphone audio 👍
Thanks! it's similar in that it's a beginner-friendly 37-key digital synth with a hands-on interface and lots of FX, but it's true the layering system of the GAIA 1 and it's predecessor the SH-201 is gone
Nothing to do with the original GAIA, no three layers, what I cannot accept is not being multi timbral, cmon it’s 2023
No multitimbral no buy. Blofeld which is years old can do it, my XV3080 as well. Also my super old Motif-6 is multitimbral. I will stick with my VST and old synths. Why buy new when the developer does not respect the customer to give as this feature. With digital it is inexcusable. Its just a matter of the right amount of CPU/DSP power and programming.
exactly, even for me a digital with the limits of an analogue doesn't make sense.
Yeah too bad this will cost 2K +, when you can get a Argon 8 with FATAR keybed and a similar sequencer for 1/2 the price, this is a hard sell for Wavetable, then add a Cobalt8 and you have your VA for the Gaia2 $.
Pre-orders are online now for AUD$1599, the Modal synths are great though, no arguments there 🙂
@@StoreDJ_online OK $1599 is a game changer, and that is their RRP which makes it a ton more attractive given things do come down in $.
This is priced at the same as the Modal stuff when they came out BUT there is a ton more going on with the Roland.
I've been through the manual and it looks like my last bit of gear I want.
I was looking at the Polyend Play but that cannot do what the Motional Pad can do.
It has the essential things I need for sequencing, and I have gone through a bunch of sequencers that don't get it all right.
This will be my short listed Xmas present so thanks for the good news!!!!
We have almost same parity as UK on price, this is unheard of for Roland, Korg do it, so do Modal, so not looking in this gifts horse mouth.
:D
@@StoreDJ_online YT hiding my comment. $1599 is a a great price, I will be seeing you guys @ Xmas.
899 usd
@@ForecastGrim Australian store, $1599
Load down models from Roland Cloud and have to pay yearly fees to keep using the models? No thanks.
only if you want to use the VST plugin versions, model expansions loaded on the synth will run regardless of whether you have an active membership with Roland Cloud.
@@StoreDJ_online Is there a limit to the number of modal expansions that can be loaded onto the Synth? Can all the loaded modal expansions be backed up, in case there is a need to do a reset of the synth?
@@vladsnape6408 yes, the expansions are installed by downloading them onto a USB drive, just make sure to backup those files.
unsure about a limit, in the manual it shows 4 models installed, we'll reach out to Roland for clarification 🙂
Roland still chasing ghosts and giving us another synth no one really asked for. At least the Gaia 2 has real oscillators this time… hard pass! 🤷♂️
Does it do supersaw?
Yep! Both VA oscillators have supersaw