The Best Roland Gaia Tutorial Videos – SH-01 synth

Geoff Peters writes:

The Roland Gaia SH-01 synthesizer is my favorite instrument for playing live electronic music. What’s so special about the Gaia? It easily lets you shape and design the sound with ease, while performing it. Using the principles of Analog Synthesis, the Roland Gaia can be made to sound like a flute, an organ, a Wurlitzer keyboard, a string section, a sci fi movie, a distorted rock guitar, a club track bass line, bells, a trumpet, and many more. But unlike some synthesizers which force you to stick to a set of pre-made sounds, the Roland Gaia lets you design your own sounds through the process of synthesis. If you want to get into the technicalities, read the review of the Gaia at Sound on Sound.

But Synthesis is an art in itself. It is not immediately obvious how to do it without a certain amount of basic knowledge, even though the Gaia is very intuitive once you grasp some basics of synthesis.

On this page I have collected the best tutorial videos I have found on Youtube that demonstrate and teach the basics of synthesis using the Roland Gaia SH-01 synthesizer. You can watch them right here on this page, or visit my special Youtube playlist that I put together which contains all of the videos in a single playlist.

Above is a video giving a brief explanation of analog synthesis, using the Roland GAIA virtual analog synthesizer, by Adrian Scott.

Part 2:

another one by Roland Canada :

Here is another series of demo videos about the Gaia which I find quite inspiring: (in Japanese with English subtitles that you can turn on in Youtube Closed Captioning button below the video). The man who is showing off the synth has an amazing knowledge of the instrument.

Intro and Part 1: (please turn on Closed Captioning – CC below to see English Subtitles)

Part 2 Demo of the preset sounds: (please turn on Closed Captioning – CC below to see English Subtitles)

Part 3 Basic programming: (please turn on Closed Captioning – CC below to see English Subtitles)

Part 4 Advanced Programming: (please turn on Closed Captioning – CC below to see English Subtitles)

Here is another series of tutorial videos by Ed Dias. They are short, to the point, and quite helpful:

Fundamentals

Strings

Bass

Synth lead

Hope these videos are helpful to you!!

If you have any questions about Synthesis or the Roland Gaia, please leave a comment below.
Good luck with your music!!

Cheers,
Geoff Peters
Vancouver BC Canada
youtube.com/geoffmobile

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Rant: Too many commercials before movies at Cineplex!

Hey this is Geoff from geoffmobile.com Here’s why I am going to the movies less often: at the Cineplex theatres they now show up to 27 minutes of promo commercials / timeplay / trailers AFTER the movie is supposed to start. Plus a 15 minute pre-show and that’s too much time to be spent watching stuff I didn’t come to see. I enjoy trailers, but with the addition of timeplay and an extended commercial / ad segment, I am just not enjoying going to the movies as much anymore. Is anyone else in agreement? What do you think, are long commercials the price to pay to see a new release in the theatre?

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Geoff
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Notes:
Filmed on a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX30v and edited with Adobe Premiere on a Windows machine. Original synth music at beginning and end by yours truly :) performed on a Roland Gaia SH-01 synth. cheers!!!!

James Coleridge, Founder & Maestro of Bella Gelateria – Food Talks Vancouver Vol 6

James Coleridge
Founder & Maestro of Bella Gelateria

www.bellagelateria.com/

James Coleridge is the Founder of Bella Gelateria which he opened in June 2010. James received formal training at the Italian Culinary Institute and advanced masters training at Carpigiani Gelato University in Italy. In 2012, James represented Canada at the World Cup of Gelato in Rimini, Italy where he won Gold. 2012 — Florence Gelato Festival, Florence Italy Winner Double Gold Medal. Voted #1 Technical Jury — Best Gelato. Voted #1 People’s Choice Best Gelato

-Speaker bios courtesy of Vancouver Foodster and foodtalks.ca

Food Talks is an evening of expert speakers from the Vancouver Food community.

To hear more speakers from Food Talks please visit geoffmobile.com/blog/category/food-talks-vancouver
or foodtalks.ca

Food Talks Volume 6 was held in Vancouver BC Canada on February 12th 2013.

Presented by Richard Wolak, twitter.com/VanFoodster
vancouverfoodster.com

As featured on geoffmobile.com
Presented by Foodtalks.ca and vancouverfoodster.com

Videography by Geoff Peters of Birds in the House Productions birdsinthehouse.com

Filmed at the Dockside Lounge, Granville Island, 1253 Johnston Street, Vancouver BC Canada
www.docksidevancouver.com/

Closing music by Laundryman laundrymanmusic.com used with permission.

Julia Smith, Founder of Urban Diggs Farm in Vancouver Canada – Food Talks Vol 6

Julia Smith, Founder of Urban Diggs Farm

Julia Smith owns and operates Urban Digs Farm. Urban Digs is a family farm that grew out of a quarter acre residential lot on Vancouver’s West Side and now encompasses several acres of in South Burnaby, Richmond and Delta. As an active member of Vancouver’s Urban Farming Society and a founding director of Metro Vancouver City Farms Coop, Julia is well connected to the local farming community. Urban Digs distributes weekly harvest boxes, participates in farmers markets, supplies a number of local restaurants and will be opening for farm gate sales at their Burnaby location in the spring. Like many new farmers today, Julia does not come from a farming background and relies on passion, enthusiasm and a supportive community to propel her up the steep learning curve.

www.urbandigsfarm.com/

-Speaker bios courtesy of Vancouver Foodster and foodtalks.ca

Food Talks is an evening of expert speakers from the Vancouver Food community.

To hear more speakers from Food Talks please visit geoffmobile.com/blog/category/food-talks-vancouver
or foodtalks.ca

Food Talks Volume 6 was held in Vancouver BC Canada on February 12th 2013.

Presented by Richard Wolak, twitter.com/VanFoodster

vancouverfoodster.com

As featured on geoffmobile.com
Presented by Foodtalks.ca and vancouverfoodster.com

Videography by Geoff Peters of Birds in the House Productions birdsinthehouse.com

Filmed at the Dockside Lounge, Granville Island, 1253 Johnston Street, Vancouver BC Canada

www.docksidevancouver.com/

Closing music by Laundryman laundrymanmusic.com used with permission.

Roland Gaia SH-01 Synth Jam March 9th 2013 by Geoffmobile

Geoff from geoffmobile.com does a 20 minute improv jam / practice session of entirely original music on his Roland Gaia SH-01 synthesizer.

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I’m available to create music for your short films. Please contact me at geoff@gpeters.com cheers! Geoff

Cheers!
Geoff

Technical notes:
Recorded into a Zoom H1 in 48khz 24bit
Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-HX30v
Edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 on a Windows 7 Dell PC (Intel i7 and USB 3.0 for a faster workflow).