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milone213 « Opinion GAIA SH01 »
Published on 08/26/11 at 01:30Presentation
Roland introduces the Gaia SH-01, a compact 37-key synthesizer that combines a look "vintage" with the latest technology of the brand in analog modeling.
Characteristic
• Keyboard 37 velocity-sensitive keys
• triple virtual analog engine
• Each engine has an oscillator, filter, an amplifier, an envelope and an LFO
• up to five simultaneous effects (distortion, flanger, delay, reverb, fuzz, phaser, pitch shift, etc ...)
• PCM sound generator
• Memory of 128 sounds, 64 user
• 64-voice polyphony
• D Beam, and arpeggiator phrases integrated recorder
• 2 USB ports to store the patches on thumb drives or connect the keyboard to a computer
• 2 Output Jack 1 / 4 "
• 1 headphone stereo jack 1 / 4 "
• Connection to pedal TRS
• MIDI In and Out
• In EXT mini stereo jack
• operates with 8 AA Ni-MH or AC adapter
• Weight: 4.2kg
UTILIZATION
The general configuration is very simple, the manual is clear enough, but not detailed enough for my taste, especially with regard to the south. Not as easy as it could be and when the USB interface .... Not compatible with all disk drives. (Yes you can record directly onto a hard drive or USB flash drive via the USB port ...)
The editor is accessible and its easy to use, I say easy because the lack precision potentiometers when you want to create a very specific sound, (like piano, almost impossible to achieve)
SOUNDS
Personally, I find it access electronic music, hip hop, trip hop, new age view. for more traditional sounds (piano, violin, to be forgotten, it is not able to reproduce.
The synthesis system is not terrible for that.
OVERALL OPINION
For electro, it is very good, to the "classic" variety, jazz ... forget it.
Big catch for me, 37 keys, you can not do anything with it .... missing at least one and a half range.
Roland introduces the Gaia SH-01, a compact 37-key synthesizer that combines a look "vintage" with the latest technology of the brand in analog modeling.
Characteristic
• Keyboard 37 velocity-sensitive keys
• triple virtual analog engine
• Each engine has an oscillator, filter, an amplifier, an envelope and an LFO
• up to five simultaneous effects (distortion, flanger, delay, reverb, fuzz, phaser, pitch shift, etc ...)
• PCM sound generator
• Memory of 128 sounds, 64 user
• 64-voice polyphony
• D Beam, and arpeggiator phrases integrated recorder
• 2 USB ports to store the patches on thumb drives or connect the keyboard to a computer
• 2 Output Jack 1 / 4 "
• 1 headphone stereo jack 1 / 4 "
• Connection to pedal TRS
• MIDI In and Out
• In EXT mini stereo jack
• operates with 8 AA Ni-MH or AC adapter
• Weight: 4.2kg
UTILIZATION
The general configuration is very simple, the manual is clear enough, but not detailed enough for my taste, especially with regard to the south. Not as easy as it could be and when the USB interface .... Not compatible with all disk drives. (Yes you can record directly onto a hard drive or USB flash drive via the USB port ...)
The editor is accessible and its easy to use, I say easy because the lack precision potentiometers when you want to create a very specific sound, (like piano, almost impossible to achieve)
SOUNDS
Personally, I find it access electronic music, hip hop, trip hop, new age view. for more traditional sounds (piano, violin, to be forgotten, it is not able to reproduce.
The synthesis system is not terrible for that.
OVERALL OPINION
For electro, it is very good, to the "classic" variety, jazz ... forget it.
Big catch for me, 37 keys, you can not do anything with it .... missing at least one and a half range.