Mine is on the way. Someone on Ebay dropped the price of a nearly new Gaia 2 down to $550, so I could not resist lol. There are so many sounds for the deep house/future bass type beats I enjoy making. Love the vid btw and your channel
It’s funny, I watch all types of videos on this synth finally, I come along and I get to watch my old buddy Mr. tuna who I’ve been watching for years, but haven’t seen in a while and how wonderful it is because he actually knows what the hell he’s doing
Very love your videos when your buildibg sound from scratch and this way exploring the sound of synthesizer like you did here and your another videos with Ob 6 , jupier 4 model , Juno x , and others
I got one to replace the nightmare poly d which was simply a nightmare to maintain right down to the keyboard. I am certain that this Gia will out perform that thing in every way ! The last one ( plastic and white ) lasted 13 years in my rig before finally being discontinued so I couldn’t get the lever for pitch bend and modulation that finally gave out after playing the shit out of it all that time ! I own all variants of synths from euro rack to big powerful poly synths and that little Gia held its own a did it’s job perfectly. 👽✌️
@@Dudderlyful it was mostly that they took ten weeks fix it and it was stolen from their repair facility ! Then when it showed up the key scaling wouldn’t track the keyboard knobs simply stopped working and the entire motherboard needed to be replaced which still didn’t fix the tuning issues. Behringer is a very cagey brand and they just don’t produce durable stuff. The Roland Gia 2 was sadly garbage too for my taste personally ! Sadly that company has devolved into a mere shadow of what it was before and there divvy menus are buggy and made worse by the lack of a real manual like they used to include with every single machine they produced. Complete with step by step instructions and graphical tools to get folks up and running quickly. Instead they give us unreadable instructions on the internet that are mostly tech jargon or complex and unhelpful. They are like a clone of behringer cloning themselves with software rompers of their old stuff. Very sad . So I’m anxiously awaiting my PWM mantis a true proper legacy synth with big balls to boot! 👽✌️
Good to see them put this out. I don't think I'm in the market for a hardware digital right now though. Been investing into analogue heavily and that is likely the only way forward for me for the foreseeable future. Still good on them. Looks like a competent VA/Wavetable option in hardware. Just a supersaw from the JP8000 oscillator section made it across? Or did they port the whole JP8K oscillator?
@@jettero1 Nice. I:m going to pick up the Multi Poly as well next month, it looks great. I can see it replacing a lot of what I use my GAIA 2 for, or at least complimenting it. Looking forward to it. Have fun!!
Manufacturers refuse to realize that wavetable synths MUST have an analog filter, otherwise they sound harsh and digital. Oh well, back to my Kawai K3.
I'm trying to be respectful, I was always a Roland loyalist since the 90s, however I have come to completely disregard the Perpetual Recycling and repackaging, and the lack of innovation the Roland Corporation has been doing for the last 10 plus years.
See I thought this one was definitely a step away from the repeat of Roland legacy products we’ve seen lately! Definitely feel like it’s a step away visually and sonically from what we’ve gotten the last few years
Actually, This is not as much of a repackaging as you appear to conclude. It is something evolutionary to the usual Roland tech. I find this to be a new machine. It is a more affordable iridium in some ways. Will I buy it? Prolly not. I will admit Roland has been regurgitating a lot the last 20 years but I don’t think this is one of those synths. I find it quite fresh. Their SH4D is quite a big step in the right direction. This another step and I applaud them
Lately digital synths became too buzzy-sounding. I mean their developers kinda thought that saw is a real sound? I've heard Arturia new things, that this... And boy this sounds like you're at the dentist or something. Every knob you twist makes a harsh and piercing sound. Dunno if somebody liked it but i expected a lot more of Roland. I mean they were the pros at digital synths but now they just try to be Hydrasynth or something.
Hydrasynth is very very cool and sometimes having some different timbres from the classic smooth and sweet analog va's can take my music to a very different place! i know what you mean about the buzziness tho it can be very harsh to tame
@@MRTUNA thanks man! I've been at some channels and people get really butthurt about me mentioning harsh sound. They like denying it but i think that Roland made it this way on purpose i believe. Do you think it's really harsh a little bit or maybe people are right and it's my hearing letting me down? Thanks bro sub from me!
@@djkanyon Is the core sound of wavetable synths, they all have this in your face/harsh vibe. I think because these can fill more type of music, hard style to ambient, using only a single synth. But there plenty of filters you can make them sound sweet like a Juno and is not that hard to do.
Good vid, but the Gaia 2 just sounds like crap. Maybe it does some things in a different way, but I have yet to hear even one sound in any of the videos that make me want to hear this synth again, much less pay for it.
Hahahahahahaha, no matter what I do to my Junos and the Xs ya just can't get rid o' that monotonous wow wow whoaaaa effect! Eventually EVERYONE falls into that same ol' mundane cutoff resonant slippery bs crap hole!.... all synths of the world freakin' same ol' boooorrringgg waa wahh waaaaaaahhh!!! Hahahahahaha!!!Hahahahahahaha. . 😁😁😁😁
I read a lot of “this is just more copycat junk etc etc etc”…….something FRESH and NEW is a pretty tall order in 2023 being that synths have been in mainstream, accessible circulation for well over 40 years. Just what exactly are you waiting for? A synth that paints? A synth that melts Space? It’s all basically the same waveform oscillators and filters and wiggly wobbly stuff. This new Roland is at the very least a new type of user access and inexpensive portability! It’s just an instrument. If you need groundbreaking synth tech, Your missing the musical point! GO DESIGN THE NEW GROUNDBREAKING SYNTH OR JUST MAKE MUSIC WITH THE AWESOME SELECTION ALREADY AT YOUR DISPOSAL. I bought my first synth, a Korg DW8000 back in 1985. It was not cheap and limited variety of sounds compared to what’s available today for less than half the price. Computer connect ability, high fidelity reverbs, and gobs of preset storage. Stop acting like a spoiled rotten brat and appreciate your choices.
Mine is on the way. Someone on Ebay dropped the price of a nearly new Gaia 2 down to $550, so I could not resist lol. There are so many sounds for the deep house/future bass type beats I enjoy making. Love the vid btw and your channel
I will have to get this beautiful synth soon.
I’ve had it since the end of October. First time I felt like I could scratch a record at the same time playing a synthesiser with the touchpad.
Excellent run through man. Certainly got my interest in this beauty, wasn’t even on my radar. Gotta love the Roland’s!
I bought a Gaia 2 about a month or so ago and I fkn love it!
It’s funny, I watch all types of videos on this synth finally, I come along and I get to watch my old buddy Mr. tuna who I’ve been watching for years, but haven’t seen in a while and how wonderful it is because he actually knows what the hell he’s doing
Very love your videos when your buildibg sound from scratch and this way exploring the sound of synthesizer like you did here and your another videos with Ob 6 , jupier 4 model , Juno x , and others
Thanks for the overview & sound exploration. Certainly sounds great!
Thanks for watching!
In my Sweetwater checkout cart as we speak 😂
Interesting synth. Great demo brother
Appreciate it!
Very similar to Waldorf Blofeld but without 2 stereo filters and without comb-comb+ filters
Thank you..super review...........................
Cool! 👍
I got one to replace the nightmare poly d which was simply a nightmare to maintain right down to the keyboard. I am certain that this Gia will out perform that thing in every way ! The last one ( plastic and white ) lasted 13 years in my rig before finally being discontinued so I couldn’t get the lever for pitch bend and modulation that finally gave out after playing the shit out of it all that time ! I own all variants of synths from euro rack to big powerful poly synths and that little Gia held its own a did it’s job perfectly. 👽✌️
Wss it the tuning stability? POOoly D seems like a good alternative to the Model D, similar sort of synth
@@Dudderlyful it was mostly that they took ten weeks fix it and it was stolen from their repair facility ! Then when it showed up the key scaling wouldn’t track the keyboard knobs simply stopped working and the entire motherboard needed to be replaced which still didn’t fix the tuning issues. Behringer is a very cagey brand and they just don’t produce durable stuff. The Roland Gia 2 was sadly garbage too for my taste personally ! Sadly that company has devolved into a mere shadow of what it was before and there divvy menus are buggy and made worse by the lack of a real manual like they used to include with every single machine they produced. Complete with step by step instructions and graphical tools to get folks up and running quickly. Instead they give us unreadable instructions on the internet that are mostly tech jargon or complex and unhelpful. They are like a clone of behringer cloning themselves with software rompers of their old stuff. Very sad . So I’m anxiously awaiting my PWM mantis a true proper legacy synth with big balls to boot! 👽✌️
Good to see them put this out. I don't think I'm in the market for a hardware digital right now though. Been investing into analogue heavily and that is likely the only way forward for me for the foreseeable future. Still good on them. Looks like a competent VA/Wavetable option in hardware. Just a supersaw from the JP8000 oscillator section made it across? Or did they port the whole JP8K oscillator?
I'm in two minds for my next Synth, This, or the Hydrasynth ?? ,, they are both Beasts.
What did you get in the end?
@@jumpstar9000 None, i went for Arturia Minifreak instead + i will be buying the new Korg Multi/Poly in November when they arrive in the shops.
@@jettero1 Nice. I:m going to pick up the Multi Poly as well next month, it looks great. I can see it replacing a lot of what I use my GAIA 2 for, or at least complimenting it. Looking forward to it. Have fun!!
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Mr Tuna UA-cam nice.
drumsart comment nice 👍
Manufacturers refuse to realize that wavetable synths MUST have an analog filter, otherwise they sound harsh and digital. Oh well, back to my Kawai K3.
Don’t you talk down to me about synths. 😂
I'm trying to be respectful, I was always a Roland loyalist since the 90s, however I have come to completely disregard the Perpetual Recycling and repackaging, and the lack of innovation the Roland Corporation has been doing for the last 10 plus years.
See I thought this one was definitely a step away from the repeat of Roland legacy products we’ve seen lately! Definitely feel like it’s a step away visually and sonically from what we’ve gotten the last few years
Actually, This is not as much of a repackaging as you appear to conclude. It is something evolutionary to the usual Roland tech. I find this to be a new machine. It is a more affordable iridium in some ways. Will I buy it? Prolly not. I will admit Roland has been regurgitating a lot the last 20 years but I don’t think this is one of those synths. I find it quite fresh. Their SH4D is quite a big step in the right direction. This another step and I applaud them
Roland releases new synth:
People: I want your new synths to be so much more than what synthesizers actually do
I've just got one and can't even figure out how to get the piano to work no sound is generating nothing please help
Lately digital synths became too buzzy-sounding. I mean their developers kinda thought that saw is a real sound? I've heard Arturia new things, that this... And boy this sounds like you're at the dentist or something. Every knob you twist makes a harsh and piercing sound. Dunno if somebody liked it but i expected a lot more of Roland. I mean they were the pros at digital synths but now they just try to be Hydrasynth or something.
Hydrasynth is very very cool and sometimes having some different timbres from the classic smooth and sweet analog va's can take my music to a very different place! i know what you mean about the buzziness tho it can be very harsh to tame
@@MRTUNA thanks man! I've been at some channels and people get really butthurt about me mentioning harsh sound. They like denying it but i think that Roland made it this way on purpose i believe. Do you think it's really harsh a little bit or maybe people are right and it's my hearing letting me down? Thanks bro sub from me!
@@djkanyon Is the core sound of wavetable synths, they all have this in your face/harsh vibe. I think because these can fill more type of music, hard style to ambient, using only a single synth. But there plenty of filters you can make them sound sweet like a Juno and is not that hard to do.
Good vid, but the Gaia 2 just sounds like crap. Maybe it does some things in a different way, but I have yet to hear even one sound in any of the videos that make me want to hear this synth again, much less pay for it.
ill try to come up with some different sounds to tempt you hahaha
Hahahahahahaha, no matter what I do to my Junos and the Xs ya just can't get rid o' that monotonous wow wow whoaaaa effect! Eventually EVERYONE falls into that same ol' mundane cutoff resonant slippery bs crap hole!.... all synths of the world freakin' same ol' boooorrringgg waa wahh waaaaaaahhh!!! Hahahahahaha!!!Hahahahahahaha. . 😁😁😁😁
I read a lot of “this is just more copycat junk etc etc etc”…….something FRESH and NEW is a pretty tall order in 2023 being that synths have been in mainstream, accessible circulation for well over 40 years. Just what exactly are you waiting for? A synth that paints? A synth that melts Space?
It’s all basically the same waveform oscillators and filters and wiggly wobbly stuff. This new Roland is at the very least a new type of user access and inexpensive portability! It’s just an instrument. If you need groundbreaking synth tech, Your missing the musical point! GO DESIGN THE NEW GROUNDBREAKING SYNTH OR JUST MAKE MUSIC WITH THE AWESOME SELECTION ALREADY AT YOUR DISPOSAL. I bought my first synth, a Korg DW8000 back in 1985. It was not cheap and limited variety of sounds compared to what’s available today for less than half the price. Computer connect ability, high fidelity reverbs, and gobs of preset storage. Stop acting like a spoiled rotten brat and appreciate your choices.