Regards the sampling update, is there documentation for it or do they wait until it’s out of beta?
I’m also wondering about capacity. Are you limited to sampling to RAM or are you able to record directly to (and directly play back from) SD card without sample length limit?
I ask because I was just watching the video about that awesome new Ribbons pedal and was wondering how well the ZOIA would handle stuff like wow and flutter effects (especially if streaming from an SD card).
When you say “record to a different sample location at the same time”, are you referring to a sample location in RAM or a sample location being streamed to on the SD card?
I don’t really understand the question. All samples are treated the same.
For example, I’d like to make a digital back-up of a whole cassette, but digitising a whole side at a time at 48kHz won’t fit the memory of the ZOIA. But if I were to connect a cassette deck to the stereo inputs of the ZOIA and record, will it record endlessly to the SD card limited only by the size of the card itself, or will it be limited by RAM before being stopped and saved to the SD card?
I don’t know. All I know is that samples are limited to 10 minutes. I think that likely applies to all circumstances, but I can’t say with absolute certainty.
That’s a bit of a bummer (for me I mean), but 10 minutes per sample is still respectable.
AFAIK Zoia wasn’t designed to be an audio recorder ! Maybe you’d need something else…
Previously existing Looper module record 16s max, so new Sampler module with 10min is a very significant upgrade !
Yeah it deinitely looks that way. Like I said, 10 minutes is respectable, but unfortunately it wouldn’t work for me because it’s not long enough to hold a whole side of a cassette.
Use Zoia as cassette backup ? 
The 1010 BlackBox would make a great digital Cassette.
Sure. I only work with cassette-based multitracks for recording. And I thought it would be a good idea to make a ‘Master Tape Digitiser’ on the ZOIA so that I have digital masters stored to SD card as well as having the original analogue master tapes they were digitised from.
So the idea was to record directly to the ZOIA from original analogue multitrack master tapes, so that I can archive them digitally and load them back in if ever I need to. The reason the recording length is important is because if I wanted to record from the digital master to another cassette tape, then the digital master needs to be at least one whole side in length.
Sorry, I missed your post and yes, I agree. I’ve been considering it but the ZOIA would have been much better if it had worked, because I could have used it for endless other things as well.
What about buying another one ? 
I started overdub recordings from 2 stereo tape recorders 30 years ago, so I am happy tapes are still used. I even tried to scratch with tapes, unmounting the head, gluing a tape on a piece of wood without success.
Don’t you work with songs shorter than 10 mn ? In that case you’d be able to record them…
@chm_jacques may program a patch allowing to record several consecutive 10mn recordings, with the ability to playback them later ?
Maybe? At that point, you run into a bit of a CPU limit, though, depending on the length of the cassettes (30 minutes a side seems doable; 45… is still maybe doable, but not as certain).
But I do think there are better options. Of course, the Blackbox, but uh… my $99 H1n could also perform this task.
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True. I plan to buy a Tascam DR-40X anyway and that would definitely do the job. I would still have preferred to make something myself on the ZOIA though, even if just for the fun of it.
Hi there, can anybody tell me if this pedal is capable of mid side conversion of a stereo line signal?
The operation would happen on two signal paths in parallel:
left path (Mid Signal): Input Left + Input Right -> Left Output
right path (Side signal): Input Left - Input Right -> Right Output
Yes it is capable. An audio inverter module is available.
I had a look at the module descriptions: (Module Index - Empress Effects ZOIA/Euroburo (firmware 2.20) - Google Kalkylark)
Seems like the Stereo Spread module does a mid-side output.
