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
Let’s begin with a story. One night, when I was in high school, my friend…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
I’m going to begin these patches notes where I often end them, explaining the name…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
Back to shift registers — in some ways this patch shares a lot of DNA…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
So, okay, some of this will sound familiar. Folks got to Somnambulist via the Sleepwalker…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
This patch is relatively simple: it’s just two, 3-OP FM voices (mod1 into mod2 into…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
This patch is an adaptation of the effects section of my generative patch, The Somnambulist….
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
The patch is named after Charles Brockden Brown’s early American novel, Wieland, which has the…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
Which is, itself, an application of a Schroeder-Moorer reverberator design, developed, originally, by Jezar at…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
Loop Van Winkle is a grid-based loop recorder, with polyrhythmic and probabilistic elements, designed to…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
Noise can be beautiful. The only sounds in this patch are derived, ultimately, from noise…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
Drone Machine is the last patch I used for my recent generative album (https://christopherhmjacques.bandcamp.com/album/generative-sessions-volume-2-in-absentia) that…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
The synths used in this patch are pretty simple. The signal path they follow is…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
I’m not exactly sure this piece is “music.” I don’t mean it’s just a random…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
I can tell you there are no pianos in this piece; I named it that…
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christopher-h-m-jacques 4 years ago
These are the patches I plan to use as the basis for Saturday’s Bootcamp on…