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
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…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
This is not a question. It’s an invitation. Welcome to the ZOIA Anti-GAS Archive! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FTfsDsuA6uuKtwJckeCjBI04kclfDOy1tfLSxfD4Se4/edit?usp=sharing…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
I built this because sometimes I like to mess around with synths but don’t want…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
I’ll have more complete patch notes ready when we go live, but this is sort…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
I finally got around to seeing the trendiest movie of three years ago! And I…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
The patch is made of four self-FM’ing sine-based voices. The voices are broken into two…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
NRQZ, on the other hand, came together fast and sort of exactly as I envisioned…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Kanawha is my attempt (emphasis _attempt_) at creating a choir patch. Sometimes it sounds choir-y…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
The patches makes heavy use of panning, so the name comes from the sensation of…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Named both for the radioactive particle detector and the sci-fi designs of H. R. Giger…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Dissolve is a couple of things: a four-voice polyphonic keyboard synth built around pinged filters…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Named after the director Robert Altman’s penchant for overlapping, interrupting dialogue, Altman (the patch) features…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Three loopers record at intervals set both by regular LFOs and the irregular aspect of…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 2 years ago
Named (in a roundabout way) after Philip K. Dick’s story “We can remember it for…