Empress ZOIA Simple Effect Tutorial: Chorus

[@kurtvonstetten]

Hey thank you- this was a great walk through and starting point for some of my patches!

[@NickCapron]

Nice I hope to shoot some more patches soon, thanks for the comment.

[@Mr.Tubster]

Thx for sharing 😎😍😎

[@ghostly606]

Great to see a tutorial series for the Zoia! Can I ask why you used a slew limiter on a square wave LFO rather than just using a triangle LFO?

[@NickCapron]

No you are correct, the default square LFO was not a good choice! I wanted to demo the slew limiter, but I should have clarified that in the video. Thx for the comment!

[@surfthetsunami5596]

Question: why not use a sine wave LFO instead of a slew limiter?

[@portwain]

Please more tutorials on ZOIA! And please add “Empress” to the title so it would be easier to find via youtube search!

[@NickCapron]

Good call on the title, thx! I'm just editing together a delay tutorial that should be out next week, so more are coming soon!

[@alexeykurilo4381]

Thanks, it is very interesting. Since zoia can do whatever you want is is hard to find tutor about things that you exactly need.

[@NickCapron]

This has been my experience as well. When I bought the ZOIA, I was hoping for a quick multi fx box for my hardware setup. Upon using it initially, I quickly realized I was over my head. So I went to the patch site to DL a bunch of user created effects. But even these effects can be difficult to use without study, so I put the ZOIA aside for around a year. Now with some more experience, I'm going to try and tackle it again, get an understanding of the modules, and see what I can get out of it. First step is for me to understand/create some simple FX's, then go from there to clone more advanced FX's, create my own unique ones.

[@manmaas]

@@NickCapron I could see its potential to fill out a poor pedal board and jumped for it then, like you realised I was in over my head! I was actually terrified of hitting any of the buttons for fear of 'breaking' it initially and I just played with the patches already loaded. It's taken me a year and discovering Patchstorage to recognise what I have and although I still get confused by all the button functions from patch to patch and don't always get the results of online demos I am at least comfortable with exploring and now even prepared to tackle creating my own patches. It's a beast but it certainly has a steep learning curve.

[@NickCapron]

@@manmaas Yeah, my experience is about exactly the same as yours! And yeah, a pro/con is the interface, it allows you to customize it however you see fit, but if you want to just "patch surf" (I'm not sure if that is an actual term or not...) its difficult, as each patch will have it's own unique controls you need to learn. So that's why I'm going to spend some more time on figuring out how the modules work, and build up some simple FXs, to see if I can build more complex effects, that do what I want. If this doesn't work out I may eventually sell the ZOIA and move onto another solution.

[@manmaas]

@@NickCapron The interface scared the hell of me! I was using it as a very expensive reverb pedal for most of the year until I discovered Patchstorage. I've only this week understood how to access the multifunction use of the stomp switches! There's a lot to learn (today discovered the reason why some of my patches weren't loading - bad file names) and the fact the buttons jump around in function use from one patch to another is really a problem but I'm getting enough useful textures from it to stick with it. I just recognised I've got to be more disciplined in how I use it and not try jumping around from one patch to another in performance mode. I think you're right, the way forward is to build your own patches to your own user system that you're comfortable with rather than having to step into what sometimes feels like the chaotic minds of others!