I’ve had my Zoia for a little under a year and I really like it. As others have said, the individual delay and reverb effects don’t quite stand up to comparisons with similarly priced units specialising in those areas, but they are more than good enough for most purposes. I use it mostly for looping and creative delay line effects and for that stuff it really shines.

I personally find the workflow really easy, especially after I created a couple of patches at the top that are filled with pages of the building blocks that I commonly use when creating new patches. That way I can copy and paste whichever pages I need into the patch that I am making to speed things along.

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Speak of the devil

(No. No sampler in this one.)

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A very good librarian was released that eases a lot of the more cumbersome issues with the Zoia. Recommended.

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tonight I wanted to try to make something like the Earthquaker side of this - as more of an exercise than to replicate - and ended up making something that takes my guitar into instant Oval/Microstoria territory. ie not at all what that pedal sounds like but I love what happened instead.

roughly, audio in -> pitch detector & compressor -> overdrive -> tremolo -> granular (stereo) -> dual bit crusher & alias -> ping pong delay -> out

pitch detector + negative cv modulating granular pitch (sub octave). lots of other modulation being passed around

So what are peoples opinions on Zoia given the time that has passed since release.
I’m mostly inrerested in loopers, lo-fi stuff and noisy/eerie aesthetics. How does it fare it that regard?
Also i have a feeling that euroburo which i was initially going for is going to be completely different due to living inside modular.

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