Zoia is maybe 3 weeks old for me and I must say, it is not as complicated as one might think. I really like your tutorials and thanks a bunch! I kick myself for not getting the Zoia sooner because it really is the ultimate everything. You really don't need anything else but the Zoia, except maybe another one. Lol
I appreciate the video and thank you for the information. I can’t help but think tho that at 6:32 when you say “it’s pretty simple” how entirely complex this gets. Like wow that will take some getting used too. Thank you for sharing 🙏
A controversial position, of course :) I guess I would say once you are accustomed to the interface, it really goes very quickly (and is not so different from some of the other multi-effects interfaces I've used in the past), but point taken
This video was very helpful to me. I've used many of the complex patches from patchstorage, but the value of this pedal is in engaging with the interface to make customized sound tools.
I wholeheartedly agree; that's why I post my customized sound tools to Patchstorage :) But I also understand your specific point here. If there's anything I can do to help you customize your own tools, please let me know.
Ok this is a start for me. I still am struggling with this. The screen is not easily seen when your hand goes over it. Is everything you do here explained in the manual?
Hi. Thnx so much for this video. (Im also watching your video on midi clock too with Zoia-I like white boards!). I really want to accomplish what you did in this video. About half way through it was all a bit too fast for me. I’m new to all of this. I can’t capture the connections. Is there anyway you can write out the connections in the description?
I’ve watched this video about 4 times now. And I just can’t get past the part after you make the 2Nd page and mover over the effects. I can’t seem to keep up when you add the out switches. Please can you call out the connections😢😢😢. I’m hoping to get this so that I use my Zoia for live as a multi effects pedal. With a reverb on every patch, a delay, then something different for last out switch. My main go to will probably be: reverb, delay, chorus for my three.
@@JJT007hero You might look over the r/ZOIA Bootcamp series thread: www.reddit.com/r/ZOIA/comments/tntt6d/zoia_bootcamp_megathread_schedule_stream_links/ My Bootcamp video was pretty much a rehash of this video (in part). I drew up some diagrams for the video, which another r/ZOIA member, Charlie, posted, along with Spanish translations; the links to those posts are collected in the thread. I also go over the concept in some detail in a comment on this patch pack I posted (scroll below the patch notes): patchstorage.com/multi-fx-starter-pack-30-multi-effects-patches-designed-for-modding/
Thanks for the video. I’m new to Zoia and this is what I was looking for. However, is it possible to do this with a stereo path? I’m having some trouble wrapping my head around it.
Stereo in ZOIA is often a case of "double mono." Which is to say that you use two mono devices to make a stereo pair. So, if I have a stereo effect I want to bypass (e.g. a reverb): Audio in L --> audio out switch1 Audio in R --> audio out switch2 Audio out switch1 output 1 --> audio out L (or audio out switch3 if you want to keep adding to your chain or, etc.; wherever audio goes next!) Audio out switch1 output 2 --> reverb input L Audio out switch2 output 1 --> audio out R Audio out switch2 output 2 --> reverb input R Reverb L out --> audio out L Reverb R out --> audio out R So, it's really just a matter of repeating the process for each side/channel of the stereo processing. Anything you do for the left side, repeat for the right side (or vice versa). Edit: the same stompswitch module would be connected to both out switches to control them in unison.
@@ChristopherHMJacques Wow thanks for that detailed answer. It really helps my brain to have that step by step process written out. Perfect..I appreciate you!
You could use an audio balance. Audio signal --> pitch shifter --> audio balance input 1 Audio signal --> (maybe a buffer delay?) --> audio balance input 2 The audio balance will allow you to blend between wet and dry while maintaining a gain close to unity at its output. The pitch shifter has an inherent delay, which is why I suggest a buffer delay may help you produce a more desirable outcome. (I might also suggest exploring the granular module as a means of pitch-shifting; it depends on the application, but I often find it produces a more satisfying pitch-shifted sound.)
hello, i want to use the zoia more like an effects processor for live sets, playing with electronic devices and gigging with a guitar in a live situation (rock context). using a midi foot controller with extended 4 switches, is it easy to set up? i would end up with 7 switches (in a rock band you sometimes need like something like a clean boost, 1 or 2 gain stages on top of that, and then on/off delay, modulation (chorus/flanger/tremolo), maybe a different amp sim setting, if possible a compressor. the setting is similar to the workflow you just presented? thank you for the videos. it would be crazy if the zoia could do the EXTREMELY COMPLEX and not do the somewhat simple.
It's the same process for setting up with MIDI as it is with stompswitches, except instead of stompswitch modules, you use MIDI CC in modules in the same fashion.
Then this will be a total game-changer! Switches (audio and there's also CV switches, too) open a lot of doors. I have a catch-phrase, of sorts, in the FB group: "The answer is usually multipliers, comparators, or switches."
You can create a "bang" module. You do this by biasing a value module to 1. Then, connect its output to the input of a trigger module. When the patch loads, the value module will go high, and the trigger will go off, but just once and just when the patch loads. You could connect that trigger module to the trigger input of a MIDI PC out module to send program changes to other pedals/synths/etc. that are linked by MIDI. I think that's what you're after, but if I've got it wrong, let me know and I can try again.
Is there a way to map the stomp switches globally to a midi cc to control them from a different midi controller? eg: Using the line 6 helix to control the zoia stompswitches on a global basis. Or does it have to be edited on a per patch basis?
Unfortunately, there is no way to do this globally. The sort of MIDI designation that might replicate a stompswitch is performed on a per-patch basis. And I use the term 'replicate' pointedly -- the stompswitches themselves cannot be mapped to MIDI. To control something in ZOIA with MIDI, the MIDI must be routed to an input (this can be a control module input, or a parameter input -- anything that can be a destination for control signals). In other words, the MIDI must mirror the stompswitch routing. So this mapping can be a little complicated (if adapting someone else's patch; more on your own patches in a moment) as you need to trace the stompswitches to their destination and map the MIDI to this destination, not to the stompswitch. If doing so, I recommend replacing latching stompswitches with momentary ones and placing a flip flop between their outputs and their destination. A flip flop will latch each time it receives a momentary signal. So, you would also map the MIDI to the flip flop's input with a momentary signal; that way, whether a stompswitch on ZOIA or on your MIDI controller were used, the flip flop would change states (whereas latching signals from both the ZOIA stompswitch module and the MIDI controller would interfere with one another) (this is an OR logic). If you are creating your own patches, you could make a template for this, then use it as the basis for patches, which would accelerate the process.
Hello Christopher! I really appreciate all the documentation you provide. I'm new to all this. I have a lot of fun diving into all this cool stuff. Thanks!
Zoia is maybe 3 weeks old for me and I must say, it is not as complicated as one might think.
I really like your tutorials and thanks a bunch! I kick myself for not getting the Zoia sooner
because it really is the ultimate everything. You really don't need anything else but the Zoia,
except maybe another one. Lol
This is exactly what I have been looking for! Thank you!
I appreciate the video and thank you for the information. I can’t help but think tho that at 6:32 when you say “it’s pretty simple” how entirely complex this gets. Like wow that will take some getting used too. Thank you for sharing 🙏
A controversial position, of course :) I guess I would say once you are accustomed to the interface, it really goes very quickly (and is not so different from some of the other multi-effects interfaces I've used in the past), but point taken
This video was very helpful to me. I've used many of the complex patches from patchstorage, but the value of this pedal is in engaging with the interface to make customized sound tools.
I wholeheartedly agree; that's why I post my customized sound tools to Patchstorage :)
But I also understand your specific point here. If there's anything I can do to help you customize your own tools, please let me know.
thank you for the run through.
If you have two different signals coming into the Zoia (dual mono), can you combine them at any point in the Zoia signal chain?
Can’t see what you are doing with your hand in the way! Can’t you do it from the side?
I think it's pretty easy to tell what he's doing.
Ok this is a start for me. I still am struggling with this. The screen is not easily seen when your hand goes over it. Is everything you do here explained in the manual?
Hi. Thnx so much for this video. (Im also watching your video on midi clock too with Zoia-I like white boards!). I really want to accomplish what you did in this video. About half way through it was all a bit too fast for me. I’m new to all of this.
I can’t capture the connections. Is there anyway you can write out the connections in the description?
I’ve watched this video about 4 times now. And I just can’t get past the part after you make the 2Nd page and mover over the effects. I can’t seem to keep up when you add the out switches. Please can you call out the connections😢😢😢. I’m hoping to get this so that I use my Zoia for live as a multi effects pedal. With a reverb on every patch, a delay, then something different for last out switch. My main go to will probably be: reverb, delay, chorus for my three.
@@JJT007hero You might look over the r/ZOIA Bootcamp series thread:
www.reddit.com/r/ZOIA/comments/tntt6d/zoia_bootcamp_megathread_schedule_stream_links/
My Bootcamp video was pretty much a rehash of this video (in part). I drew up some diagrams for the video, which another r/ZOIA member, Charlie, posted, along with Spanish translations; the links to those posts are collected in the thread.
I also go over the concept in some detail in a comment on this patch pack I posted (scroll below the patch notes):
patchstorage.com/multi-fx-starter-pack-30-multi-effects-patches-designed-for-modding/
@@ChristopherHMJacques brilliant! Thank you so much!!!
Thanks for the video. I’m new to Zoia and this is what I was looking for. However, is it possible to do this with a stereo path? I’m having some trouble wrapping my head around it.
Stereo in ZOIA is often a case of "double mono." Which is to say that you use two mono devices to make a stereo pair.
So, if I have a stereo effect I want to bypass (e.g. a reverb):
Audio in L --> audio out switch1
Audio in R --> audio out switch2
Audio out switch1 output 1 --> audio out L (or audio out switch3 if you want to keep adding to your chain or, etc.; wherever audio goes next!)
Audio out switch1 output 2 --> reverb input L
Audio out switch2 output 1 --> audio out R
Audio out switch2 output 2 --> reverb input R
Reverb L out --> audio out L
Reverb R out --> audio out R
So, it's really just a matter of repeating the process for each side/channel of the stereo processing. Anything you do for the left side, repeat for the right side (or vice versa).
Edit: the same stompswitch module would be connected to both out switches to control them in unison.
@@ChristopherHMJacques Wow thanks for that detailed answer. It really helps my brain to have that step by step process written out. Perfect..I appreciate you!
Thanks man, very clear and helpful!
How do I add a pitch shifter that’s blended in with the dry? Like a 12 string sound or a harmonizer?
You could use an audio balance.
Audio signal --> pitch shifter --> audio balance input 1
Audio signal --> (maybe a buffer delay?) --> audio balance input 2
The audio balance will allow you to blend between wet and dry while maintaining a gain close to unity at its output. The pitch shifter has an inherent delay, which is why I suggest a buffer delay may help you produce a more desirable outcome.
(I might also suggest exploring the granular module as a means of pitch-shifting; it depends on the application, but I often find it produces a more satisfying pitch-shifted sound.)
hello, i want to use the zoia more like an effects processor for live sets, playing with electronic devices and gigging with a guitar in a live situation (rock context).
using a midi foot controller with extended 4 switches, is it easy to set up? i would end up with 7 switches (in a rock band you sometimes need like something like a clean boost, 1 or 2 gain stages on top of that, and then on/off delay, modulation (chorus/flanger/tremolo), maybe a different amp sim setting, if possible a compressor. the setting is similar to the workflow you just presented?
thank you for the videos. it would be crazy if the zoia could do the EXTREMELY COMPLEX and not do the somewhat simple.
It's the same process for setting up with MIDI as it is with stompswitches, except instead of stompswitch modules, you use MIDI CC in modules in the same fashion.
@@ChristopherHMJacques thank you very much! youtube has yet to see a more incredible zoia centered channel in its midst
@@ChristopherHMJacques i have another question, the zoia can be used as 2 mono in/outs?
@@alb_reuel Yes. The inputs and outputs are fully assignable, so it can be two mono channels, stereo, mono to stereo, stereo to mono, etc.
didnt know that those audio switches exist! i was trying to do this with vca's and it was SLOPPY
Then this will be a total game-changer! Switches (audio and there's also CV switches, too) open a lot of doors. I have a catch-phrase, of sorts, in the FB group: "The answer is usually multipliers, comparators, or switches."
Thanks for these, learning from you Chris. Is there a way to trigger a program change immediately when you select a new patch?
You can create a "bang" module.
You do this by biasing a value module to 1. Then, connect its output to the input of a trigger module. When the patch loads, the value module will go high, and the trigger will go off, but just once and just when the patch loads.
You could connect that trigger module to the trigger input of a MIDI PC out module to send program changes to other pedals/synths/etc. that are linked by MIDI.
I think that's what you're after, but if I've got it wrong, let me know and I can try again.
Is there a way to map the stomp switches globally to a midi cc to control them from a different midi controller? eg: Using the line 6 helix to control the zoia stompswitches on a global basis. Or does it have to be edited on a per patch basis?
Unfortunately, there is no way to do this globally. The sort of MIDI designation that might replicate a stompswitch is performed on a per-patch basis.
And I use the term 'replicate' pointedly -- the stompswitches themselves cannot be mapped to MIDI. To control something in ZOIA with MIDI, the MIDI must be routed to an input (this can be a control module input, or a parameter input -- anything that can be a destination for control signals). In other words, the MIDI must mirror the stompswitch routing.
So this mapping can be a little complicated (if adapting someone else's patch; more on your own patches in a moment) as you need to trace the stompswitches to their destination and map the MIDI to this destination, not to the stompswitch.
If doing so, I recommend replacing latching stompswitches with momentary ones and placing a flip flop between their outputs and their destination. A flip flop will latch each time it receives a momentary signal. So, you would also map the MIDI to the flip flop's input with a momentary signal; that way, whether a stompswitch on ZOIA or on your MIDI controller were used, the flip flop would change states (whereas latching signals from both the ZOIA stompswitch module and the MIDI controller would interfere with one another) (this is an OR logic).
If you are creating your own patches, you could make a template for this, then use it as the basis for patches, which would accelerate the process.
That screen though..
Honestly can't see a thing you're doing because all I can see is the back of your hand. Literally blocking all of the most important information.
That’s a lot of tweaking not enough playing.
Hello Christopher! I really appreciate all the documentation you provide. I'm new to all this. I have a lot of fun diving into all this cool stuff. Thanks!
Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying the journey!