Empress Zoia // Euroburo

(At least) one person is working on it. Maybe check theirs out and see what you can do…

https://patchstorage.com/fog-a-granular-textural-synthesizer/

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That’s the plan. And with 24 LFOs?? :surfing_woman:

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Can it do
Tempo syncd stuff.(delays , Lfo sweeps etc)
Vocoder type things (either with built in synth carrier or external carrier + audio input)
Can i put samples on it via storage and make drum machine etc.

I watched cuckoo’s latest vid from super booth and it looks quite intuitive , it seems to be gaining more interest than the mod duo device (which is quite expensive )
The reverbs sound nice , i’’l keep an eye on patch storage as they seem to feature audio examples too , very handy if you don’t have one.

Yes.
Dunno.
Not yet but definitely coming.

I guess the mod duo got delayed. And from (the little) I’ve heard it doesn’t sound nearly as nice as the Zoia.

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No mention of the bypass? so guessing it’s buffered only with no option for analog bypass.

Is this pedal suited for LINE input or more suited and designed for instrument input ?

Thinking of two of these but want signal to be pristine
One for a stereo EFX unit for my Matrixbrute --analog EFX are not that great on MB
Another other for a send return EFX unit for my Prime X1800 DJ mixer.
Thanks in advance

How’s the reverb on this?

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A vocoder should be doable. Everything you need to build one is present (a lot of bandpass filters and envelope followers, seems like). Someone who wanted to try building a vocoder would just have to copy the Nord Modular patch here, in section 8.1 “vocoder techniques” - http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/nordmodularbook/nordmodularbook.pdf

(that book is a goldmine for Zoia explorations)

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the percussion/noise/texture on this track is Digitakt drums into Zoia [4 loopers, different low-pass filter for each looper, all summing into a plate reverb, heavy tweaking of filter frequencies and filter Qs throughout]:

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Good old Glitch…

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Do the filters ping?

Yep, you can hear filter pinging on that “phasic fog” track I just posted. Turn the filter frequency down and the filter Q up, and you get resonant pinging to your heart’s content.

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Thanks @vaporlanes good to know and nice track!

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Thanks re5et.
Finally happen across this – Andreas really shows what the Zoia can do in this.

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Seems really good for both. I even used a VCA to give a dynamic mic input enough gain for vocals, and there was no noise! Mic was going in via an XLR to 1/4 cable, a method that never worked very well on my Octatrack.

So far I’ve tried stereo line in from my Deluge, the above vocal setup, and guitar, and all have been great.

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I love this track. How were you kicking off the loopers? What’s the synth line being played by? It sounds pretty random…

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I’m fighting the GAS on this one. It is proving challenging

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Thanks! I kicked off all four loopers manually before recording, they’re all microseconds apart from each other giving them that smeared effect. Synth line is an OB-6 I was improvising on by hand, affected by Bitwig 3’s FX grid. Not random, just me trying to sound a bit floaty and disconnected :slight_smile:

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Very nice!

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Ah, nice. I can’t get over how damn flexible the machine is! I just need to find more time to play with it…

(Following you on SC now, too!)

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