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 2 years ago
Zenjolin — a ZOIAnese take on Rob Hordijk’s design The Benjolin is a unique and…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Inspired by the Stochastic Inspiration Generator, Quasit is another entry in the Monstrous sequencer series….
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Credit to JoeCool on the ZOIA discord for kickstarting me thinking about this again. I…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
As in the circuit-bent variety, Bent Groovebox speaks in shuffling grooves and noisy blips, stuttering…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Sympathetic, resonating drones. Weird, pseudo-vocoding. Shimmery cascades of tonality. T and Sympathy uses a comb…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
What happens if you take a sound and stretch it out so much, it stops…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Canter phase is comprised of three delay lines running parallel. Because the delay lines can…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Cosmic Grains and Cosmic Loops build off a Cosmos-style offset dual delay by adding granular…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Another in the “Monstrous Manual” series of sequencer patches, Effin is a two-track sequencer, but…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Gleeok is a drum sequencer that began with the thought experiment of “What if I…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Bahamut — an LFO based sequencer Bahamut was inspired by this Mylar Melodies video for…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Sometimes, a method is in search of an application. I would say that is where…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
As well as oscillator bank-style drones, like the Tangible Waves’ Drone38 and DroneX modules (among…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
The idea behind Zaratan was to create a simple interface for generating complex, (potentially) repeating…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Beholder is a sequencer designed to take relatively simple sequences (up to 16 steps) and…