Daniel Fisher demos the Roland GAIA SH-01 with the Sweetwater Bonus Bank.
The bank comes preinstalled with GAIA SH-01s purchased at Sweetwater and is available separately for those who already have a Gaia at the Sweetwater site.
More than anything, though, Fisher’s demo offers a nice overview of the range of sounds the Roland Gaia SH-01 is capable of.
Nice – especially the last patch. Can you say "Forbidden Planet"! Fun demo featuring the synth not the hype.
haha! nice clone patches.
I enjoyed nearly every patch he played.
Very nice, he seems very good in recreating trademark sounds, but also good simulation (rhodes, electric guitar etc)
Nice vid.
Huge!
I wasn't impressed with the original GAIA sound demos – but this makes me reconsider it, because it does a credible job of capturing a wide variety of classic synth sounds.
Are the guitar sounds made in the VA part? Wow!! I know the Gaia has also a GM bank, so I ask.
Ouch! This is embarrassing? Why…is SweetWater so stuck in the past? And I'm over 50? I would like to hear some more sophisticated & modern applications-DubStep Wobbles-Drum & Bass-DownTempo synced parameter pad type sounds etc etc…:-)
The design of the synth lends itself to the use of it to make "so 2000 and 8 so 2000 and late" as the Black Eyed Peas put it. Roland never had a clue how to look around at what kids are doing with musical equipment. Witness Roland seemed never to have any clue about the whole TB-303 movement and never capitalized on it. They still are incapable of creating buzz or anything. So Sweetwater comes up at least with something here to push these white doorstops. I don't fault Sweetwater at all.
Some nice patches, but the filter does not sound so nice to my ears and when it comes to simulating e-pianos and organs I have the distinct feeling the old AN1x still beats the pants of this new synth. Not very interesting.
agreed about the stuck part – not agreed about dubstep which i despise, but to each his own.. btw the synth sounded anemic and fairly weak to me in recreating these real analog patches – i dont doubt the gaia has its own strengths, but i dont think its in emulation
Oddly, a lot of those sound extraordinarily similar to the presets on my Korg 01W from 1991…
01W…. Really? Uh… No.
Haters gonna hate.
They did quite well with th jp 8000
It sounds the same as the SH-201 that was my first and worst synth ever.
Anything with a d-beam is s@#$.
The Gaia most certainly does NOT sound like an 01W – that’s hysterical to even put those two in the same sentence (yes, I still have an 01W that I only just turned on to see if that was even remotely possible – the 01W should sound so good). I never understood the SH-201 hate – true, it’s built, physically, like c@@p, but sounds decent in a mix. I know… To each his own, but not everything sounds great out of the box, and I’ve gotten great mileage out of the GAIA after spending a little time to program it against the real pieces I’m trying to emulate, It isn’t 100%, but can get pretty darn close to many. I do think it’s a bit expensive at $600 – I bought mine at $349 and have been very very happy. anemic… No. sounds terrific in a mix and thru a PA (Live, I use it alongside an Ultranova, MINIAK, Jd-XI, R3, and MicroX – I keep all the real analog at home, these days, but I can pretty much run the gamut with those and SMART programming). the GAIA’s 3 independent voices allow for some wild complexity – it’s only failure is the same as many other VAs – non independent capacitor driven (whether virtual or otherwise) envelopes…. It’ll never beat the real things — but judging off YouTube demos will often let you down.