Roland Gaia 2

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The fact that you can buy or rent additional models/engines puts me off.

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This is just how it is with Roland now.

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Is that Harry Enfield ?

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yet another modeling synth. yippee.

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:joy:

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The more I look at it, the less I want to look at it.

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See, doesn’t the SH201 use the same engine as the JP8000?

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if you are refering to GAIA 2 then YES! absolutely this… it looks great on paper, but this doesnt speak to me in any way or form… it really is the successor to GAIA!

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Not sure, think it might have been from the V-Synth

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Why would you waste a lot of money on developing and producing a followup to one of the shittiest synths ever?

Why not spend the money to throw out sonething really new and cool?
I mean just ask, theres tons of ideas of what ppl really want

Nobody wanted THIS

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I think it actually made me quit the hobby :smiley: I remember buying one of those very vaguely. I got it, tried to make a few sounds with it and that’s it. Since I had no idea on how to make music, I just thought it’s rather impossible and it took me only roughly 15 years to recover from that. Got the Model:Cycles then - should have bought a groovebox instead of the SH-201…

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I like the look of it. I’ve been wanting a VA polysynth with a sequencer that is knob per function. The ability to load in the other synth models is a nice bonus.

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The Gaia was the first synth I ever came into contact with. The bassist in my friend’s band played one on a couple of their songs. The range of sounds and amount of controls it had was so exciting to my guitarist mind! I remember after one of their gigs I asked to set it up and have a go on it.

While I now appreciate the technology behind the Gaia is somewhat lacklustre, overall it’s still a versatile synth that’s available for pretty cheap. This sequel synth looks interesting, though I’m not interested in grabbing one.

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I admire the persistance and persuasion skills from anyone who got this from concept to finished product.

Imagine how many people have to say yes before something like this comes to light, and not even once did anyone ever think to bring in the No-guy and just stop this nonsense in time.

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Loadsamoney. Quite apt.

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I think it looks great… reminds me of the Novation Peak in a 37-key format.

(I’ve always like the idea of a ‘Peak Keys’ and the Summit isn’t it, too big…)

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I mean it’s a complete different engine and complete different synth from the SH-01. It’s using the Zencore engine and whatever special engine there is on the Fantom (non zero).

They share names cause that’s what Roland does. I don’t think it was smart to call it GAIA…

But they are nothing alike. Marketing fail perhaps.

I think Roland said to themselves “Oh the GAIA was successful commercially so let’s call that one GAIA 2, people love the name”, except that the only reason the GAIA was successful is because it was cheap as a synth keyboard… not because it sounded good.

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interesting.

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i dont hate it