#243

Indeed! I have “solved” this by always having a dedicated Zoia notebook close at hand in which I can write little notes about each patch. I also try to label modules by their function as I go along, but I often get caught up in the patching and forget to do this.

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#244

I am now a member of the zoia family!

I’m hoping to use the left and right side as seperate mono effects. Two pedals in one on every patch. One side modulation, and the other side reverbs and other post delay appropriate effects. A zoia notebook for patching sounds like a splendid idea.

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#245

Is that a drasp bedroom board?

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#246

Yes it is! The carpet is starting to get a little dirty, should have cleaned it before reassembling everything. It has been in the closet for years because this one is particularly big and heavy. But now that I have the zoia, I need the space. I gotta put some casters on it or something.

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#247

Wow that really takes me back to the HCFX days! Before I found out about I Love Fuzz and before I started messing around with synthesizers and wound up here :slight_smile:

Real nice nostalgia blast. I’m glad those are still out in the world being used!

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#248

I’ve heard some really nice zoia examples (the no-euro version) on youtube and I was very excited about it, really considered buying it. I would love it, if I could interject between these blocks an analogue filter, waveshaper, distortion, etc but it doesn’t seem to be possible ( unless I am missing a send/return path). It seems to be a lovely machine to be reduced to utility functions for the modular.

#249

The inputs and outputs on the Zoia do not have a predefined use, so you can set one output to be a send and one input to be a return and still have a mono input and output spare to do with as you wish! I also noticed a headphone output on the Euroburo that is not on the pedal. Whether or not the function of this will be open I’m not sure, but it is interesting to wonder!

#250

I was wondering the same thing. From the interviews with Mitch Lantz I’ve seen, it looks like the headphone out is tied to the main outs, and can’t be isolated for its own purpose. Maybe that’ll change?

#251

Those are stereo I/O, you’d have to break them to mono and join them again to input and of course loose any stereo processing the module offers, unless I am getting this wrong. Clearly using additional send/return would be a better choice. The headphone output though might be a way if it is not predefined as well.

#252

Hey! I recently made a ZOIA patch to turn a three-head tape machine into a tape delay. Thought that might be interesting to some of you. Here’s the patch: https://patchstorage.com/tape-delay-helper/

And a video about it: https://youtu.be/k6Ec86hfRK4

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#254

Does Zoia come with a power supply?

#255

No in 20 characters.

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#256

That’s cool in 20 characters

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#257

how is everyone liking zoia after a year or so of using it? I have a small fx modular setup for processing a prophet 6 and the euroburo caught my eye for replacing an erbe-verb/stages pair. I really enjoy the workflow of the er-301 and think I’d gel well with this. tons of sound demos out there but I haven’t seen too many posts of actual experiences after using it for a while or how the quality of the effects stack up to something like erbe-verb or magneto - definitely like what I’ve heard though

#258

I’ve only had one for about a week now so this may not mean much, but I really like it. just got out of euro - I found myself using it mainly for external processing (total overkill for cost) and wanted to really slim down my gear to a pedal or two. first couple nights I messed with community patches, feeling my way around. tonight I made a few patches and my appreciation grew exponentially. really intuitive system.

the fx quality is good- initial impression is better than I maybe anticipated, but not on the level of $300+ dedicated fx like Volante/Magneto as far as the specific algos (tape delay, in this case) go. it does so much that I was willing to accept that (and I have Volante to cover that), so ymmv.

it’s perfect for me as the middle layer between guitar/bass/synth and norns, and I plan on writing norns scripts to control Zoia, and vice-versa.

curious to hear thoughts from longer-term users as well.

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#259

To my regret I have to say that I’m not using it so much. I really like it and I have a ton of ideas of patches to build that would be really useful for me. But when it comes to it I grab some other ‘ready to use’ piece of kit, or build something on my laptop.
I will probably keep it though. Should just spent a few days completing the Idea of a multiple looper setup Idea I have for it, and then use it specifically for this.

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#260

This is pretty much my place with it too.

I do think it’s great - sounds fantastic and has great utility options - and has infinite potential, so it stays. However I have not been doing a very good job at seeing it through to its potential. It requires one sit down and spend some time working out their ideas. It becomes a lot easier and faster to work with the UI after spending some time with it

The user patch library is really nice but my ideas are different.

If “user delay” won’t be an issue for you, definitely go for it. When I do finally wrap something up, it’s soooooo good. A brand new pedal.

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#261

Does the pedal version have the sampler module ported over or not?

#262

Yes. The two will share the same OS.

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#263

I’m in the same place as several of you. Its capabilities far exceed the amount of time I have to leverage toward learning it. And with a teletype on the way, probably time to head on over to the trade thread and call a spade a spade :joy:

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