christopher-h-m-jacques
I create instruments for the Empress Effects ZOIA. -/Z/-
I also curate a ZOIA Tips & Tricks page, which can be found here: https://bit.ly/2KXIT0H -/Z/-
If you use one of my patches in something, please consider sharing the work in the comments for that patch -- so that others can get a sense of what the patch can do -- or tagging me in your social media posts. -/Z/-
If you want to get in touch with me, you can find me on the ZOIA Discord (@chmjacques; invite: https://discord.gg/tWqUWdFSE8). You can also ask patch-specific questions in the comments section of the patch's Patchstorage page or YouTube video (if a corresponding video exists). I no longer take questions via private message/direct message. -/Z/-
This is my Bandcamp; lots of ZOIA generative music to be had: https://christopherhmjacques.bandcamp.com/ -/Z/-
The answers to the two most common things people ask me about myself:
1) I am not an Empress employee.
2) My background/training is in literary analysis (specifically American antebellum novels and political tracts). I only passed pre-calculus because my teacher liked me/took pity on me. My experience with modular synthesis was pretty meager before encountering ZOIA. -/Z/-
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
BP Track uses parallel pitch-tracking bandpass filters to produce… strange, unruly sounds. Alien moans, birds…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 5 years ago
Idiotastique is a portmanteau of idiophone — tuned percussion synthesis — and fantastique, a French…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
Megafuzz embraces ZOIA’s digital nature, reveling in feedback loops, oscillations, and wild modulation. **WARNING**: This…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
I recently got a Montreal Assembly Your and You’re. Like all of Scott Monk’s creations…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
Happy holidays to @empress_effects and all of the #ZOIA community! If you’re celebrating, may your…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
Based on/inspired by the Empress Echosystem algorithm of the same name. Multiswell uses four taps…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
This patch somewhat adapts the ZS-40 patch so that it can be played by instrument…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
Loop collage allows you to “overdub” by syncing six individual loopers; the layers of the…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
The idea here is fairly simple: record four loops, and then sequence them, with each…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
Lite Brite is a drawing/animation patch. Each grid point on the first page has a…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
Grain Galaxy allows you to freeze three granular buffers and use their contents as oscillators…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
This began as a response to u/markblack1977 on r/ZOIA’s question about making a sputtery fuzz….
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
From the tutorial linked below. This is hardly a completed patch, more of a sketch…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 6 years ago
“Swell verb” uses an attack envelope to swell a signal into a plate reverb. The…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 5 years ago
ZS-40 V2 — two updates on a synth based on a classic Most of the…