Roland GAIA 2 Synthesizer Overview
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- Launch into an infinite universe of sound design with the new Roland GAIA 2 Synthesizer. In this video, you’ll learn about the advanced features and capabilities within GAIA 2:
00:00 Introduction
01:26 Hardware Overview
01:51 Motional Pad
02:28 Arpeggiator and Sequencer
03:03 Expandability
A powerful hybrid engine combines a wavetable oscillator and two virtual analog oscillators for unparalleled sound creation possibilities. And a user-friendly front panel and intuitive workflow allow you to jump in and start bringing ideas to life without menu diving. When you’re ready to perform, full-size keys provide exceptional playability, and using the sequencer and Motion Pad, you can create and alter complex sounds and phrases on the fly. Unique phase and shape modulation options are also available to distort waveforms and unleash cutting-edge textures with complex overtones.
The sounds don’t stop there. GAIA 2 supports Roland Cloud expansions. Instantly swap between the built-in sound engine and classic Roland synthesizers like the JUPITER-8 or JUNO-106 with a dedicated button. The GAIA 2 workflow lets you reimagine vintage sounds with the front panel controls and put them to work with the sequencer.
To learn more about GAIA 2 synthesizer, please visit: www.roland.com/global/product...
To hear more GAIA 2 sounds, please watch: • Roland GAIA 2 Synthesi...
To learn more about Roland Cloud, please visit: rolandcloud.com
*All the sounds in this video are from GAIA 2
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Thanks for building this synth with full sized keys. I’m buying one as soon as they are available.
It looks like something from the 80s with features from the present and timeless sounds. Lovely.
Yes, only the looks!
It strongly resembles modern VSTs and the Alesis Ion, among other stuff. D-05 looks like it came straight out of a sci-fi '80s movie (and that's what I love most about that unit, lol)
I know, this is not the only synth with such features. But… this thing is so smooth! The Arp modes when changing not having the tails cutting the sound is remarkable. It’s the feature that has impressed me the most. Not to mention the presentation. Felt super professional! 👏🏼
The legend of Gaia returns! 🔥🔥🔥
Nice! I had a Gaia before and I called it Kaija, Kaija is a Finnish womans name. Almost equal to Karen in the US. But my Kaija was a good one, never complained about anything. Worked really good. Sold it to buy a Nordlead and eventually found out that I liked my Kaija more than the red Norwegian.
Owning synths and pretending they are women. I bet you trade in your girl friends the same way 😂
Clavia are Swedish :)
Mine is Olga! 😂
I love this new edition of the Korg Minilogue
OH NO !
Yer gonna be ah want'n to trow
yer ol minilogue craper straight in ta da toilet once ya see dis one.
Minilogue sound much much fatter and in the more higher league than this
exactly what I thought
This has absolutely nothing to do with Minilogue.
@@Jason75913 right. it has Stereo Output 😎
A beautiful and great sounding synth! After 10 years of excessive hardware using and then 20 years of using only virtual instruments, this is the first synth which I loved to have under my fingers and in my studio ❤. "Roland sound" as I liked it for years. Sad that there is no way for digital DAW integration. This would make it perfect to me.
Looks neat, I like the class compliance, hoping that it comes to the bigger synths (looking at you Fantom).
This looks freakin' cool! I want one.
I do like the ability to load synthesizer model expansions. The Jupiter-8 is always welcome 🙏
Just the ABM templates rather than full blown ACB models though. But it's a useful facility anyhow. I still think ABM templating should be an end user feature.. allow the community to develop a bunch of those things. Maybe when a BMC2 comes along with more cores they'll transition to that angle for ABM and leave the modeling to ACB
@Wagoo thank you, my friend! I needed to know that before I tried to get one! Looks like the System-8 is still is my favorite newer Roland synthesizer!
Exactly bro. 👍
I'll be grabbing ASAP
The randomizer looks fun
Sounding awesome!
I think they have a winner here, full size keys, good price lot's of sound options.
Good job!
It sounds great. Mine should arrive in two or three days. W00t!
Looks very cool ! does it support the Vocal Designer model expansion too ?
Excellent that they got a master synthesist to do the demo. Sounds superb.
Sounds great!
Heard and ordered. ❤
Looking good 👍
This thing is beautiful 😍 😍 😍 Do the the keys velocity sensitive? And I'll assume theres no aftertouch. None of thats a deal breaker, i just can't seem to find amy info about all that
Waiting on Nick Batt from Sonicstate to get his hands on one.
Looks like it will be much better than the original.
Seems perfect for Trance❤
You'd be better off with a VST, it would sound better and you can detune and pan the voices in unison (which makes a big difference). Sorry but this won't do trance. No supersaw either. You'd be miles better off with a cobalt 8 and save yourself money too. Otherwise get a Virus Ti which imo is one of the greatest synths of all time. (especially for trance, or the Jp8080). Roland suck now. Scammers!
This could give you some more Roland-y sounding pads, leads, and basses to help your tracks sound a bit different from most others. That said, MC-707 is a great alternative, but without wavetables. SH-4D could be the lower cost alternative, but I don't know how it compares in terms of the wavetable oscillator of each, but SH-4D has the advantage of multitimbrality, thus layering.
@@Jason75913 Or you could just get the UVI software which sounds much better and is samples of the original roland stuff. Or a Behringer JT4000 for $49. (yeah $49 and from the demos i've heard sounds miles better). If you compare GAIA 2 to a Moog sub 37 (I know ones digital and Moog is analog - very/completely different synths) it's just in a different league and really isn't much more expensive. The moog I can guarantee you probably costs 3-4 (maybe a lot more) times the price to produce. Or a Novation Peak is similar in price and destroys this in everyway. As I said I think Roland have become a disgrace!
@@petewigley9985 Definately VST is superior, silly to buy this
Love this synth. I went to guitar Center and played with it. I’m just not sold on the build quality. Even the Jupiter models. All plastic and shifty pots and encoders. Can we get back to stronger parts please? If your gonna make it cheaper ensure you pass the cost savings into the customer.
I have to look into this one... Shades of a JD 800 and a Korg Wavestation EX, both ftom the past - come together!
I love Roland till 1994!
What's with the VST-like, great-looking front panel this time? That's fairly un-Roland, lol
Also, modern sounds and wavetables are fairly un-Roland as well, not that I'm complaining - but hey, better late than never, lol
Any chance that a mod matrix can be added later? I strongly feel that this is quite the essential feature to have in a modern VA synth.
Could you add a way to use the Mod wheel to control Pitch and Reverb level at the same time please. I would like to turn it up one or two octaves and have masses of reverb. Would be really appreciated thanks. 🙏
compared to the very first Gaia is this a Beast in a Tank.....awesome!! thank you roland! will grab one - sounds totally different then the first one 😂😂😂 glad i sold mine years ago
Looks and sounds great. Really...And also class compliant. Great .
But : Fantom update ? Never ? Welcome Montage M !!!
You "forgot" to write *Price $899.99*
do you have to buy the Roland Cloud expansions (Juno 106 etc) or are they included?
ok just looked it up, you have to buy them
That's me out
SH-101 is included, every other one is an extra
jdxi 2 next :)
Roland has been Outstanding…knocking it out of the park ever since they released Zen Core!! 🎉🎉🏆🏆💯💯
This or a minilogue xd? I mainly want to use either machine with drum machines and modulation systems to make techno/synthpop/witch house music.
Korg Gaia 2. Hot diggity. Just joking. I had the original Gaia and had a ton of fun with it. I like the non-complete-plastic look of it now and more knobs is always good.
Can you please re-release the JP80x0, it is long overdue
Does it support MIDI 2?
Can it go into Overdrive? Bloody good blokes at Roland.
Let me guess: This one allows for easy backups to the next computer, from the beginning, because it’s considered more important than the Boss DM-101.
Gaia 2 module please.
(Kenny Bania voice): “Gold Jerry! Gold!” 😂
loves
GAIA II+ model needs: 61 keys with channel aftertouch, 64 to 128 note polyphony, bi-timbrality, user loadable wave tables, and full-sized and backlit pitch and mod wheels. Keep the price under $2K and you have a mid-priced winner. This synth sounds awesome.
Why bi timbral? Make it 5 timbral like the Juno x.
@@Simbor-rh1dj sounds like you should buy a Juno X….
Looks like this will be a huge hit for Roland, definitely a dynamic syntn and something a bit different, also quite solid. On another note why does the presenter look like a 90's Harry Enfield? Those in the UK will know 😅
It’s his Loadsasound nephew
Used to have the original but i was missing the sequencer, this version look nice...1k ...let me think about it lol
The structure with one wavetable oscillator and two digital analogue ones is like in the Studiologic Sledge, also tje concept of as little menu diving as possible. And that one has aftertouch...
Motion record As standard?
Nice! Jupiter 8 reissue next?
JP-08
oh wait-
They already stated they will never do an analog reissue, as they are sticking to their motto: "The Sound of The Future". The closest you'll see to a Roland analog synth is going to be from Behringer.
@@ULTIMATEPATCHES for "sound of the future", Gaia2 is their first synth to even sound modern at all, let alone "futuristic" in any sense, and really only due to the patches and not the synth engine itself. Roland has been stuck in the past, but their rompler gear can make more modern sounds, yet they refuse to hire a designer to stick some modern patches in their products (until now, it seems), so the end user must know how to do it themselves. I can deal with that, but a lot of folks picking up Roland keyboards can't, lol
Is this the first Roland not to have a tradition Roland pitch bender?
I HATE PITCH/MOD "Wheels"...honestly it's almost a deal breaker...the pitch lever is SO MUCH BETTER
This is DOPE. I am trading in my old 61 key for the cash to get this and I will be deeeeeeeeeeeply pleased
It sounds extremely diabolical
This was LONG overdue.
Sounds like a Korg Trinity.
I couldn't stop being completely distracted by the miming to voiceover, lol.
Price
Do the keys have aftertouch
No they don't unfortunately, but the keybed is really very good and the velocity sensitivity is excellent.
Where is the joytick pitch bend ? OMG !😭
How much does this synthesizer cost?
900
@@Sicolirics 900 of what ? Dollar Euro Rubles ?
This is probably the best sounding and most accessible wave table synth for under 1k.
Mike Dean vibe
Love you can record motion with xy pad but no d-beam like the original just why ?
A bit too much like korg mod wave ect...but sounds very big like a virus....over all looks and sounds slick...now they need to kill the d05 value and drop that engine into it ...seems like the perfect pair to a tr8s...idk....I need to see more than the big three parts sharing automation and sequence work is most important for me if it can do that well I'm happy along with its sound
No multitimbrality? :/
At least bitimbral would have rocked.
Jamie Oliver getting into the synth game now....
Hi I’ve been around since the mid 1970s. So you have a lot of catching up. I wouldn’t get it if your a player because it should be 61 minimum if your a player. If your a synth sound Guy then why not get it. Remember the synth game never ends, you’ll be playing it the rest of your life like me.
Doesn't look and sound bad. But the price is too high...
A direct competitor would be the Hydrasynth explorer, which you get for several hundreds less.💸
Why does it look like Korg's minilogue?
Yes,but l'm sure,that Roland much better than Korg..👍💪
Metal top/finish.
@@BelongingToTheUniverse Depends what you want. I thought it might have one or two analog oscillators, at least - seeing as it looks like it’s intended to compete with (and borrows its finish/styling heavily from) the Minilogues … but Roland seems to be allergic to analog oscillators, these days 😄
@@kierenmoore3236 No matter,what I want,it's nevermind...
Roland always been better than Korg,just listen to it,and you'll see...
@@kierenmoore3236 Yeah, but I'd prefer Aira style or fantoms:)
Is this zencore too?
no just zencore 1
@@dankeplace 🤣
Awesome, touche! @@dankeplace
want
If it had two filters I'd get it. Nice layout though
For the price Roland did not bad for this one
Reminds me of a small Alesia synth
Alesis maybe?...) There is no synth called Alesia...😆
Reminds me of planet Beetlejuice
No d-beam?
Did he just say “aluminium?” I swear I heard an extra syllable in there 🤓
harry enfield hello
Design and features that would have been difficult to come by without Korg minilogue and modwave... and a sound like Hydra Explorer... 😅 It's a nice put together synth, but it doesn't seem original. Cheer up. Plus, the price is always more expensive than Korg. 😂👍👍
Korg mind's copied the damn SH 101
Minilogue is irrelevant beyond measure. Modwave definitely looks very strongly like the inspiration. Roland looks a little silly. Additionally, the XY pad doubling as a mouse pad is just hilarious, but unusually clever.
I love how no one is commenting on how Roland threw in modern sounding presets into a synth, something they've been stubbornly against for far too long, more than enough to baffle me as to just why. Why now after seemingly being so vehemently against doing anything more than churning out Jupiter/Juno60/etc. sounds for the upteenth time?
It's "heresy", lol
But hey, better late than never, right?
I'll gladly snatch a used unit at a great price later. The asking price for new seems mildly steep for what you get.
If the Korg Minilogue and EMS Synthi AKS had a baby.
his brother is the Kog Modwave
n recent years I've started to like Roland. I'm tired of teaching Yamaha to do the right thing, my criticism of them has not worked for many years. Many people reproach me that Yamaha’s competitors pay me money for this criticism. I'm tired of telling everyone that I don't get money from competitors, that's a fact! But sometimes I think, maybe I should really change the lager and change the brand? If you need a good person on the team who knows how to make good presets and videos, then through my UA-cam channel you will find contact with me.
So far I only have Roland’s delay pedal in my setup. I don’t yet know with whom I will sail through life with Roland or Korg in the future, but I know for sure that it will not be with Yamaha.
If it's good enough for Billy Idol,, i might give it a go.
Who ???
Keith Chegwin, coughs...
korg Minilogue?
Us Gaia V1 owners are a little salty at how you guys just walked away from Gaia. Discontinued the patch editor. Did absolutely nothing to update or fix its flaws.
Gaia V2 looks great, of course, and solves the terrible build quality issue of Gaia 1 and sounds a LOT better. But I've moved on.
Bro that was like 13 years ago … 😅 This is a whole New Roland.
@@digitaldiezel5870 Bro, SH-01 was discontinued only last year. They sat on it for 12 years. GAIA2 already has only limited Zen-Core support - what makes you think it will get better than that? History says it won't.
This would've been the best synthesizer if the pitch bend and modulation wheel were together like the old GAIA SH-01
А я думав Галя😅😅😅😅
Here they come, the Bedroom Boys, to get all upset and tell us how this is the worst synth they've ever seen. You don't have to buy it fellas, plenty of others will...
And they’ll deliberately search for something it doesn’t have just to criticise it!!👍
And then it's back to Gearspace to talk about the philosophical implications of a low pass filter or something.
This synth (and Roland) are the reason their careers haven’t exploded. Holding them back it is
@@vaiman7777lol I know right
They are everywhere
Should have called it D-motional … to keep it in line with traditional Roland gimmick nomenclature 😄
Hardly a gimmick. Much more practical than the D-Beam.
@@IRIDEHARLEYSD:beam 4 life!!!1 you take that back 😡
To give us only 22 voices of polyphony and no multitimbrality in 2023 for $900 is a slap in the face. I remember when Roland gave us 128 voices and 32 part multitimbrality, ability to load 128MB of your own samples and run thru the synth engine. Those were the times when companys gave the customers what they wanted. Now its what the company wants to give us.
but 3 octave keybed is practically unplayable. There should be four at least.
4 would be ideal but this is still a cool synth
after more than 10 years? damn already sold the 1st gaia couple years before virus disaster, now these thing came out? i'l pass this one... super late to release this kind thing...
Sometimes it sounds better than my korg wavestate and sometimes it doesn’t. I would not mind having it. Nobody beats Roland, my first keyboards in the 70s and 80s were always Roland. They were the best then and the best now.
Stop talking shit.
After the Fantom failed promises I’m never buying a new Roland product ever again. The Fantom hasn’t had an update or bug fix for over one and a half years and has been dropped like a hot potato after only four year, with no interest or feedback from anyone at Roland for one and a half years of the four.
I can already see the title of the "Bad Gear" video - "The sequel nobody asked for".
So basically just cheat at producing songs then?
Korg territory. Fight!
Terrible filter demo. Come on, Roland. At least sweep the cutoff 1 time. 😂 (that said, this is one good-looking synth. Much nicer than Gaia 1)
Roland: “We don’t DO analog, anymore …”
agreed. I dont know who asked Roland to clone their first sample-based VA in GAIA and do this again? I don't know such people who really liked the cheap sound of first gaia. People waited for Analog and something really new, but in fact we see that it's just about money.
@@NatLifeSounds oh please, Roland has been all about digital for a long time now, unless you have had your head in the sand, and saying that it's just about money, what do you think business is?
@@dankeplace he said clone a sample based virtual analogue! If you didn't have your head up your arse you would realize that cloning a digital synth with another digital synth is just backwards!
@@oracle-0018 oh please, digital is digital, Roland has been digital for the last, erm almost 40 years?
Roland can do what ever they want, whether they do it good or not is up to them, and in this instance, they've excelled.
Oh buh buh buh analog, yeah nah.
@@dankeplace I have no idea what you are talking about I like this synth!
Cheesy demo
Needs some totally not cheesy or wornout minimoog bass, prophet 5 lead, 808 drums? Maybe Rhodes or B3 to spice it up? Lol
@@zap7759 the synth has a good bunch of modern wavetable sounds, but this demo is just unnecessarily cheesy in how the sounds are used, and I would have liked to hear the Gaia2's take on supersaws for the heck of it, but that is covered elsewhere, at least.
I'm not much of a Moog guy. Sequential synths are cool and all, but I hardly care, though that Pro-3 is wicked awesome and sounds absolutely killer.
@@Jason75913 Yeah all good was messing around. Honestly with just this Nord Lead 4, E-mu Audity 2000, Ensoniq Mirage thing I'm working with, any other hardware polysynths seem kinda hideous.
The Gaia2 performance video on this Roland channel is refreshing though. Was expecting non-stop analog cliches.
We need de D50 expansión. No D50, no buy !
May as well get Jupiter-X, MC-707, Juno-DS61, Juno-Di, FA-06, Integra-7, Fantom G, or Fantom-06, and the list goes on, honestly. They are more than similar enough for you to be able to dupe D-50 patches on.
Or hunt down a D-05 or actual D-50 for a worse experience, sure.
That’s a nice looking Korg………..I’m sorry. what?………………….oh.
Get with it...KORG COPIED the SH 101