GAIA Exploring Sound (PDF) - Roland Corporation Australia

Section 1
A Dance/Trance Patch
From the beginning of this book we have referred to the “Three
Building Blocks” in the GAIA, or any Subtractive Synthesizer.
Clearly, through the previous Lessons you will have realized that
there are far more components. Low Frequency Oscillators,
Effects, and so on.
but by selecting Patch A-7 we have also chosen an Arpeggio
pattern, and some dedicated effects. So a more complete
Figure 12.1
There is also a very powerful Arpeggiator in the GAIA, and a
Phrase Recorder. Both of these greatly expand the possibilities of
this instrument, but are not really the focus of this book.
For a detailed explanation of the Arpeggiator and Phrase Recorder
please see the GAIA owner’s manual.
Even so, we’d now like to analyze one of the GAIA’s Preset
Patches that happens to use the Arpeggiator.
Please select Preset Patch A-7, and play the keyboard.
It is immediately obvious that a “Patch” in the GAIA is much
more than just the Three Building Blocks. Of course, the Patch is
made up of three TONES, all with Three Building Blocks of their
own. We could refer to all of these as being the Sound Generator,
diagram of the structure of the GAIA would look more like this:
Now that you understand programming we’d like you to examine
this patch, but we will provide you with a list of questions to
guide you.
Let’s Begin.
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