I have had two consistent complaints about most Roland gear: a lack of hands-on controls and an unnecessary amount of diving through incomprehensible menus. But, earlier this year the company shipped ...

Gaia 2 has some neat tricks, but it’s not cheap, and neither its sound nor feature set are up there with the best of its rivals. Hands-on interface keeps most parameters up-front. Motional Pad is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So, when Roland announced the Gaia 2 — a long overdue update to its 13-year-old virtual analog synth — I was cautiously optimistic ...