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Hi

I managed to set up the roland gaia with logic pro 9,

I"ve got the gaia set to my Edirol ua-25ex, with both of the midi in and out leads running from the gaia to the ua-25ex, i also have the 2 left and right audio jacks set up as well from the gaia into the ua-25ex, the synth sounds amazing coming through my monitor's.

In logic pro 9 in the environment window in the top left corner drop down menu i selected midi instrument, then in the new drop down menu i selected new instrument, i renamed this instrument gaia, in the port section i selected my ua-25ex.

Then i returned back to the arrange page and created a new software instrument, then on the channel strip plugin menu i selected external instrument, i opened the external instrument.
where it says midi destination i selected the roland gaia from the drop down menu and selected input 1-2.

Now the gaia sounds phat when i play through my rokit krk 5 monitors, nice and analog with nice bottom end, nice and earthy, but when i record it into logic is seems to lose its analog sound all the bottom end logic doesn't record,
why would this be?

Can any one tell me why this would be.......

Hi THERE,
I JUST purchased a Roland Gaia.
Does anybody know if you can play synth patch's via the usb key i.e synth patch's that come free with music mags etc?

Regards

Do the patches on the music mags have any instructions on how to load them in?
They might load in via MIDI / USB via the computer.
Patches can be saved to the USB memory stick / key, as discussed in the manual P54.

From what I can gather, the whole memory is stored (64 patches). When loading back from the USB stick, the whole lot is replaced.
It appears to store another group of patches, you need another USB stick/key. This surprised me.

Hi There,
Thanks for the reply. The patch's that come with the mag can be played using for eg IK Multimedia's Sample Tank.
I thought that maybe, if it was possible to save such patchs on a USB stick,which it is, would it be possible to play such patchs from the USB stick slot on the Roland Gaia synth.
Do the Roland Gaia patchs when saved to the USB stick convert to a format that would be similar to my patchs in the mag?

So, by the looks of it, you are saying these patches are in fact samples from a Gaia, hence they can be played from Sample Tank.

Well, the Gaia is a physical modelled synth, not a sampler.
The 'GM' section uses samples, but it is not possible to over-right them.

When the Gaia saves it's patches to the memory stick, it's only saving the data of all the positions, and settings the Gaia needs to create the patch.
Why are sounds on synths called a patch?
Well via Wikipedia:

Patch

A synthesizer patch is a sound setting. Modular synthesizers used cables ("patch cords") to connect the different sound modules together. Since these machines had no memory to save settings, musicians wrote down the locations of the patch cables and knob positions on a "patch sheet" (which usually showed a diagram of the synthesizer). After this, an overall sound setting for any type of synthesizer has been known as a patch.