This thing is amazing. Probably the most innovative pedal in a while.
Definitely on my list!
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Itās fantastic. It can be anything I want it to be and so much more. Itās definitely one of the best things Iāve ever bought.
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Itās amazing. Changing up my whole workflow. I donāt need to problem solve āwhich of my gear or software can do this specific thing? How do I do it?ā and instead just build the exact custom thing I want within, like, a 30 minute session with the Zoia. Most importantly, Zoia is neither intimidating nor a drag to use. I want to spend as much time as possible with it. Itās addictive.
Working on selling or trading away my Organelle.
BTW, Bitwigās new āGridā in 3.0 beta is also amazing, if you canāt afford a Zoia and youāre okay with sitting at a computer, I would wager that could be the next best thing. It includes an FX Grid for building your own modular effects. Personally, Iām planning on using both Zoia and Bitwig 3.0 in combination (still need to explore Zoiaās MIDI capabilities, but the CV port works wonderfully to interface with Bitwigās āCV Inā and āCV Outā modules, via my DC-coupled audio interface). You could make entire albums from scratch with this pairing! Or, yāknow, just with either of them by themselves, too. Iām keen to hear the first āZoia onlyā album someone comes up with, actually.
(To be honest, considering a new Bitwig license costs $399 USD and thatās the exact price I paid for a Zoia via a sale deal, Iād say youāre getting a hell of a lot of hardware for roughly the same price as a DAW)
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Can you send envelopes and LFOs to midi CCs?
Just got mine 2 days ago. Been using it with digitone and octatrack. Oh my, this is an awesome setup!
The zoia adds so much to my sound. Iāve only been using its for effects so far. Luckily I have no plans this weekend so plenty of time to explore.
Is that sale still going on? I want one 
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Memorial Day sale coming up at Prymaxe.
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Iāve not really had (or made) a vast amount of time to play with it properly, TBH. However, from the small experiments Iāve done and sounds that I am aware it can make has pretty much filled any gear-gap for the rest of the year.
Wanted a Moog? Basically got one. Want a super-flexible multi-tap delay? Got one. Want some super-weird sub-sine reverbād phaser drone? Got one! The only thing holding me back right now is my lack of understanding on how some of the logic stuff works; Iāve picked apart a few of the generative synth patches to see how the random notes/gates work and sort of get it (but not really).
Whatever the weather, I canāt see me buying any more gear this year because I want to dig into this one deep. Combined with a Keystep and my current ambient-ish pedalboard for guitar, Iāve got everything I need to be Hotel Neon as a one-person band!
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Letās hope itās on direct sale, says under sale exclusions section Empress is ineligible for discounts 
@Waves the Pink Floyd On the Run demo patch he did sounded excellent!
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My wallet breathes a sigh of relief.
Already preordered the hardware Nanoloop and VFE Klein Bottle. Zoia and Wing Pinger are both pulling at the wallet.
Not going to make much progress in building my rainy day fund this year.
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Prymaxe has been inconsistent - I got lucky in getting the discount, others did too, others werenāt able to. I saw people (on the Zoia FB page) reporting getting the discount even a week or two ago. Itās worth trying, anyway.
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Thanks guys you donāt do resisting this device any easier!
Do you actually mess around with the modular patching or save something and then use the ready-made patches?
Iāve cleared the decks on mine and am starting from scratch. Some of the patches on the Zoia out of the box are amazing, but I donāt really want to use presets for my own work. Iām a ground-up kind of a guy!
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Only quickly scrolled through the presets the fist time i booted up. Some of them sound pretty good, but for me zoia is all about designing my own sounds.
This. Running OT cue output into this super tempting ā¦
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https://reverb.com/item/23647940-empress-effects-zoia-multi-effects?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=share <- Someone better grab this demo unit Zoia for $390ā¦
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I saw it last night. Sent them a message to see about overall quality of it. No response yet
The built in patches are good, but I bought this to make my own. So far I have made to keep, a stereo clone of Shallow Water, a sample rate reducer & bitcrusher (think Ottobit jr.) & a midi sequencer with modulation cc out for my Dreadbox Nyx. I want to make something like Mutable Instruments Clouds next, if possible, not sure yet how Iām going to do this, but hopefully I can get something similar
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I would have to get my hands on one to try out. Still- as a pedal and synth junkie, I play guitar and synths it would be loads of fun. Right now I sample my guitar tracks to my OT and remix.