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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
Named (in a roundabout way) after Philip K. Dick’s story “We can remember it for…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
Loopamajig captures snippets of audio and swirls them around in a modulated whirlwind. The recording…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
That has presets and preset morphing, because why not? Although I definitely like the weird…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
Built around four square wave oscillators, looping envelopes, ring modulation, an odd ping-pong delay, and…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
The synthesis for this patch is a single voice, lifted directly from my patch, Cheat…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
At the heart of this patch is a chord generator synth, made up of (up…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
I don’t know as this is going to come across the same to you as…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
Hard to pick where to begin with this one. But let’s start with how the…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
I think of this patch as a sort of duet, although it’s perhaps a bit…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
A few months ago, I released a generative patch called Tape Piece (https://patchstorage.com/tape-piece-generative-patch-from-my-april-5th-livestream/). The idea…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
A few months ago, I released a generative patch called Tape Piece (https://patchstorage.com/tape-piece-generative-patch-from-my-april-5th-livestream/). The idea…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
This is just a quick explainer of how I create low-cost “piano-esque” sounds, which I…