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Roland Gaia 2 review: Roland finally delivers the hands-on synthesizer we’ve been begging for

Gaia 2 is a virtual analog synth that solves many of Roland's interface problems, but the sounds feel dated..

The touchpad just doesn’t feel natural for navigating the interface, and it would be much less cumbersome for performance on the left side — there’s certainly room for it alongside the toy-sized pitch and mod wheels. So you could draw small circles slowly working your way from the bottom left to the top right, to open up the filter and increase the resonance before quickly zigzagging your way back to the start. The three oscillators, multimode filter, dual LFOs, Motional Pad and rich effects section offer quite a bit of depth, but are incredibly easy to dial in.

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