With its massive sound, hands-on ease, and affordable price, the GAIA SH-01 is a high-performance value with old-school charm. The triple-stacked engine puts potent virtual analog synthesis under your fingertips, yet the control panel is so fun, friendly, and inviting, even first-timers can create great sounds. The signal flow is simple to grasp, with logically arranged knobs, sliders, and buttons. Hands-on control and fat sound make this little powerhouse a joy for music students, songwriters, session players, and live performers of all styles and skill levels.
- Huge sound with three virtual analog engines onboard, each with a dedicated oscillator, filter, amplifier, envelope, and LFO
- Layer up to five simultaneous effects, including distortion, flanger, delay, reverb, low boost, and more
- 64-voice polyphony for massive sounds without note drop-out
- Fun, hands-on control panel that’s great for instant gratification, and for learning synthesis
- Lightweight, compact body with 37 full-size keys
- Runs on AC or battery power for portable convenience
- D Beam, arpeggiator, and Phrase Recorder onboard
- USB ports for saving user patches to USB flash drives, and for audio/MIDI connection to computers
- keyboard
- 37 keys (velocity sensitive)
- Maximum Polyphony
- 64 voices
- Sound Generator Section
- Virtual analog synthesizer sound generator (Number of part: 1)
(Oscillator + Filter + Amp + Envelopes + LFO) x 3
PCM sound generator (Number of parts: 15)
- Patch Memory
- Preset: 64
User: 64
- OSC Section
- Oscillator waveform
- SAW
SQUARE
PULSE/PWM
TRIANGLE
SINE
NOISE
SUPER SAW
- Knobs/Sliders
- PITCH
DETUNE
Pulse Width
Pulse Width Modulation
- Envelope
- Attack
Decay
Envelope Depth
- Modulation
- Oscillator Sync
Ring Modulation
(Tone 2’s OSC 2 is applied as modulation to Tone 1’s OSC 1.)
- FILTER Section
- Filter Type
- LPF
HPF
BPF
PKG (-12 dB/-24 dB)
- Knobs
- CUTOFF
RESONANCE
KEY FOLLOW
- Envelope
- Attack
Decay
Sustain
Release
Envelope Depth
- AMP Section
- Knobs
- LEVEL
- Envelope
- Attack
Decay
Sustain
Release
- LFO Section
- LFO Shape
- TRIANGLE
SINE
SAW
SQUARE
Sample
- Knobs/Sliders
- RATE
FADE TIME
PITCH DEPTH
FILTER DEPTH
AMP DEPTH
- Tempo Sync
- ON/OFF
- Effects
- DIST
- Distortion
Fuzz
Bit Crash
- FLANGER
- Flanger
Phaser
Pitch Shifter
- DELAY
- Delay
Panning Delay (with tempo sync function)
- REVERB
- Reverb
- LOW BOOST
- Low Boost
- Knobs
- Control 1
Level
- Other
- Controllers
- Pitch Bend/Modulation lever
D BEAM Controller
- Arpeggiator
- Preset pattern: 64
- Phrase Recorder
- User: 8
Number of Track: 1
- Jacks/Connectors
- OUTPUT jacks (L/MONO, R) (1/4 inch phone type)
Headphone jack (Stereo 1/4 inch phone type)
PEDAL jack (TRS phone type)
MIDI Connectors (IN, OUT)
USB COMPUTER (supports USB Hi-Speed Audio/MIDI)
USB MEMORY (supports USB 2.0 Hi-Speed flash memory)
EXT IN jack (Stereo miniature phone type)
DC IN jack
- Power Supply
- DC 9 V (AC Adaptor or rechargeable nickel-metal hydride AA batteries x 8)
* Batteries sold separately.
* Zinc-carbon batteries or alkaline batteries cannot be used.
- Current Draw
- 600 mA
- Battery life for continuous use
- Approximately 5 hours
* Using rechargeable nickel metal hydride batteries
* Approximately 4 hours if USB memory is connected
* Differs depending on the conditions of use
- Accessories
- Owner’s Manual, Guide Book, CD-ROM (USB DRIVER), DVD Video, AC Adaptor (PSB-1U), Power Cord
- Options
- Keyboard Stand: KS-18Z(*), Pedal Switch: DP series, Expression Pedal: EV-5, USB Memory: M-UF2G
* Make sure that this instrument is mounted at a height that is no higher than 1 meter.
- Size and Weight
- Width
- 689 mm
27-3/16 inches
- Depth
- 317 mm
12-1/2 inches
- Height
- 100 mm
3-15/16 inches
- Weight
- 4.2 kg
9 lbs. 5 oz.
