r/ZOIA

hey gang, i've got a bit of a design problem

basically, i'm trying to engineer a control scheme for my friend who likes the zoia's effects but finds it frustrating to make changes in a live setting. i also find this frustrating, but i'm more used to dealing with it...

so i was thinking it'd be cool to basically have it where one row or maybe one column is the control for one effect parameter (or maybe a meta control for a few parameters). and if you hit the pad on the far left of the row (or bottom of a column) it'd set the parameter to minimum, hit the far right (or top) and you'd set it to max. and i guess it'd be ideal for it to stay lit up to provide visual feedback.

and i'm having a real hard time hashing this out. i think it's the kind of thing that just makes my brain not want to work

so i was wondering if anyone had experience trying this sort of thing, or maybe knew of any existing patches that employed similar control schemes. or i guess if anyone had any suggestions for other control surface ideas that might be similarly useful?

I just ran into an interesting problem with the ZOIA, trying to sync a drum machine and loopers to MIDI clock coming from a tap tempo on the ZOIA.

As the tap tempo often lands between a single BPM the clock it was sending was causing one of the loopers (a BASTL Midilooper) to constistently go out of sync with the drum machine. I'm guessing this is due to the looper rounding up/down to the nearest BPM and the drum machine using the "true" BPM sent.

Whatever the reason, I am eternally grateful to the creator of this patch - https://patchstorage.com/precise-tap-clock-for-midi-sync/ - which completley solved the problem (and looks like a wildly complicated patch to program). I don't know if empress do feature requests but I'd love to see the MIDI clock out module have the option to round to the nearest BPM as I'd imagine this causes sync issues with a lot of gear.

help with clever control scheme/ recommendations?

MIDI Clock issues with ZOIA