Empress Effects ZOIA 

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yes blood. thank you for sharing the patches. anything comparable to anything Nord Modular gets my attention.

Oh congrats!

HAINBACH Thankyou Sir

That snippet of your friend's composition was beautiful.

Oh, but it is SO entertaining to watch you doing this. You are so innately familiar with modular synthesis, you are definitely the guy to get the most out of this unit.

We had a Kolibri come by, wish the camera had more resolution so it could have guest starred.

Are you high. That's extremely disruptive to local fauna.

I agree, I feel that I could sell all the other pedals that I own and just use one.

Has anyone opened up a ZOIA to see what's really inside?

SyncdAlien idk but hopefully I can get one soon and find out lmao I know the organelle using pure data and for its since your need a decent size CPU so I’m using some powerful microcontroller is used

Very interesting, I would love to see a tear down video of the ZOIA to see what's inside. 😂

Laghima bela (the beagle bone audio shield...sorta) seems like it would be a great candidate

Marcel Desmith I didn’t think about the arduino it could definitely be done for cheap with the AVR libraries and some RGB soft pads

If you try it out, try to think of an idea you could never realize before. That is ZOIA's strength in my opinion.

HAINBACH What is the name of the other piece you are using with the the Zoia

Dankeschön! Ja modular is a big part of my background, but long before talking on RU-vid.

Uploading the patch tomorrow to the database!

your comment is making me sway towards getting one. I can get rid of my other pedals that I've been using with my synths. And, the fact that it can also work as a synth. crazy

Yeah! Stupid of me to be dismissive about it. Goes to show how much it goes against the grain of expectations.

I have to admit I was more ambivalent than excited about it at first as well. At some point I get the feeling we are being sold one Linux-based computer after another, just with different packaging, audio software, and interfaces, if that makes sense. I would like to believe I'm wrong about that.

SyncdAlien probably not far too off. But it’s the software that counts in these sorts of products!

Lassa Complex, you are right, certainly the software is of primary importance. But without very clever hardware packaging and interface feel, we wouldn't buy it - instead opting for roughly the same thing existing as purely software for computer or tablet, right? In the case of Arduino based synths or pedals, I sometimes question if we are being sold another Arduino, or just the custom software package, or the surrounding hardware? If the software were the only selling point then there needs to be a generic pedal with 6 knobs and stereo in/outs and an easy way to swap the firmware, so that we don't have to wastefully buy essentially the same little computer over and over again. What I appreciate about ZOIA is that it is really beautiful to look at, and seems to be a quality build. It rises far above a generic enclosure with four knobs, one LED, and yet another Arduino or Raspberry Pi inside.

SyncdAlien a very fair point. Interface design is incredibly important. It is why the likes of the synthi AKS or a Buchla 200e is so highly sought. Much more than the sound!

All over the year - time to make a video on it! Though I am also just now getting into Serge....

HAINBACH looking forward to it! What panel did you go for? The 73-75 homebuilt panel seems pretty good. It is a pity that there are no diy touch panel kits left for serge. That would of been lots of fun!

I borrowed two random source panels - I might have to sell a lot of euro to afford them though. Already have a tkb

HAINBACH wow! I look forward to your music on this system! Especially with Ciat Lombarde co wiggling ! 👌😊

Yep, can do.

Korhan Erel Right. RAM vs Card and such things are interesting questions.

At the moment it does not use audio from the SD card, but this has been requested by the users forum on numerous occasions, so unless there are development reasons it can't be done I would expect it will be implemented at some point. Empress are very good at listening to what people want. Each audio looper uses about 3% of CPU power. There is also a CV looper as well. Finally yes pretty much any variable can be controlled by midi.

Thank you for the responses. I hope this does get implemented. Since the pedal does not really access the SD for anything other than loading preset banks (right?), It shouldn't be difficult to load or stream audio files. I don't even need to load long samples for my purposes. The possibility to use at least 8 Loopers would be great and 16 would be ideal. My instrument at the moment is 16 buffers living on an Organelle played via a QuNeo controller, and I am contemplating on the idea of replacing the Organelle with a Zoia. And Hainbach's request for saving blocks of patches for later use in other presets would be fantastic too.

What type of music do you make? What do you want the device to accomplish?

Try it with resonant filters and loopers, much beauty to be unlocked

Straight recorder if I remember correctly

Kinda looks like Century Gothic to me.

GRAINBACH LITE 2.0

Reverb and Delay are superb!

@@Hainbach Thanks! Good to know. I'm really struggling with effects in Eurorack. I got a cheap clouds because ... clouds ... and then got an ES-8 to use 10 euro ipad effects by Audio Damage and so on which are a lot cheaper than on windows. But seeing stuff like Make Noise Erbe Verb or the Strymon Magneto ... so juicy, but 500-600 Euros instead of 5-15 just for CV control ... hm. Maybe this module is an option.

Oh yes, that would awesome!

Kind of what I imagined with the thumbnail and the Serge 😄

Interesting idea! Would love to know that too. I would think that's no problem.

Sure, No Problem! Treat it as dual mono.

The presets are free to use on patchstorage. Lots of other nice stuff on Patreon, though.

@@Hainbach thank you very much. This response is as treasured as the one I got from That Pedal Show lmao. I asked the question in the wrong way however. I really appreciated the sounds you actually made with the patches and I was wondering if any of that stuff is available to be sampled? I know you have the tape loops and I am definitely interested but how do you feel about .wav files?

Well, if you use a chunky reverb, two loopers, granular module, feedback patching and modulation it gets busy fast and will glitch.

Myvolts + USB Battery

@@Hainbach Awesome possum, thank you!

Vcv rack is probably a better start to learn.

Ha, I am Dad, so puns are appreciated.

Dude... *tips hat*

It's a composition tool more than a multi-fx - much of the patches are made specifically for one idea I had in mind. It's like playing into a feedback system, something to bounce ideas into and get much more in return.

@@Hainbach very cool. i was completely deceived by its (almost) knobless stompbox look.

It kinda is the best pedal ever though haha.... when you can build any ideas from your mind to the zoia synth wise, pedal wise, combine them wise, midi stuff and more all in one box by building things and patching things together, things normal pedals and synths can't do... I say that is the best lol.

averagepainter while I mostly agree, have you tried playing a saxophone? ☺️

I don’t own one, but I would think considering all it can do, they made it as intuitive as it could possibly be….