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If you fill in a survey on the Roland US website you get a free patch set called the GAIA Fisher Collection.

http://www.rolandus.com/go/gaia_promo/

GAIA Fisher Bank Patch List

1A - GAIA Expo
1B - Ripper Saw
1C - Analog Arp
1D - Organ w/ Perc
1E - Elec. Organ
1F - Ana Clav
1G - Soft Pipes
1H - Breath Angels

2A - Rezzy Square
2B - Angry Pulsar
2C - Microtonal Ghosts
2D - Planetarium
2E - Electric Ring Mod
2F - Scary Theme
2G - Particle Accelerator
2H - Phill's Glass

3A - Busy Day
3B - Electro 3rds
3C - Ana Rhythms
3D - HPF Sweep Pad
3E - Low Pad Hi Perc
3F - Tension Release
3G - Synth Clowns
3H - Mmwwaa Texture

4A - Mallet Drops
4B - Plasma Bass
4C - Flanged Bass Gtr
4D - Rips & Crickets
4E - Alien Alarm
4F - Porta Chord Arp
4G - Dist 4th Stacks
4H - Bass & Tinkles

5A - Hollow FM Lead
5B - Random Textures
5C - Shimmering Pad
5D - Splattered Organ
5E - Way Huge Bass
5F - Ambiguous 3rds
5G - Synth Pipe Org
5H - Insect Invasion

6A - Drippy Pipes
6B - Falling Sync Bass
6C - Bass & Tweeze
6D - Overdrive Organ
6E - Dist Lead
6F - Aggressive Arps
6G - Talking Lead
6H - Ocean Adventure

7A - Space Timpani
7B - Aggressive Thirds
7C - Big Angry Mosquito
7D - Pad w/ Sprinkles
7E - Talking D-Beam
7F - Complex Pad
7G - 3 Oct Saw w Port
7H - Chaotic Arp

8A - Electric Bass
8B - PW Lead
8C - Super Square
8D - Bubbling Arps
8E - GAIA Strings
8F - Sprinkled Thoughts
8G - Choppers
8H - Hidden Falls

(or, if you want to cheat and skip the survey: http://cms.rolandus.com/assets/media/zip/GAIA_Fisher_Collection.zip)

Hooray, at long last. Roland have supplied another set of patches.

Just downloaded my set and am working through them now.

Thanks for the info....

Here they are, save you the trouble of filling in the questionaire.
Link Deleted by admin - please get the patches from the source:
http://www.rolandus.com/go/gaia_promo/

Are these the same as the Sweetwater patches?
Thanx for sharing man !!!!

No they’re different.

Wow great news, I can't believe this is only the first bank of patches Roland has released. I know what I'm doing tonight!

From the "Tips" file, it looks like these are going to be pretty comprehensive. Has anyone tried them yet? What's everyone's first impression of these?

nothing special ...

I think the organs on Bank 1 are cool. There are also a couple of dirty sounding synths in there that are cool if you switch them to mono and put them down an octave or two.

I’m also not super-excited about them tbh.

They demonstrate some nice tricks though.

analyzer wrote:nothing special ...

I can understand the reasoning behind your comment and I guess each person will have a different reason for using a Gaia depending on the genre or style of music that they play.

So ulitmately, every one will have a different view on what makes a really good patch.
It's still good that Roland and Mr Fisher have put some time and effort into creating this bank of additional sounds.
For instance, I personally learnt that using the pitch shifter is a good way to increase the presence and intensity of a patch.

I'm interested in creating backing tracks for celtic music, so for me pad creation and strings are quite important. But probably not to everyone's taste. The Gaia is not my main instrument, but just an easily programmable sound tool.
The Luftrum patches seem to be well liked, but of course they are not free.
It would be nice to see a few more patches being created by users and posted on this group, even if they just spark a little bit of conversation.

In a day or two I will post some more, which may at least create some interesting conversation. I am really looking forward to Grauw developing his control program to include library and patch naming features

I guess at the moment, everyone is still too busy playing around and creating good music on their Gaia.