Win a ZOIA 10k Special Edition from Empress Effects

Empress Effects have announced the ZOIA 10k, to celebrate 10,000 units sold with a limited run of 500 units! The ZOIA 10k is a celebration of the unit and a new look to celebrate this milestone - and they're giving one away tom a lucky winner. For everyone who already owns a ZOIA, they're launching the Firmware 5 update (available for all ZOIAs) offering a bunch of improvements and bug fixes - more details below:

Firmware 5: A Need for (14% More) Speed

Ever seen Speed? Ever seen Speed 2: Cruise Control? Well, we have, and it did not in any way influence our call to speed up the ZOIA. We've heard your calls of "How can I get more performance out of my Empress ZOIA?" and we've added a 14% processing speed increase so that all the folks who have remained beholden to the 2.80 patch are finally free! We've been keeping them in our basement. Just kidding. Are we? Yes, we are. Are we?

What does this mean? Well, we made decisions in newer patches of the ZOIA to sacrifice a little speed for a lot of performance. But, as a consequence, some old patches weren't working with the firmware updates following 2.80, so many users, who had ZOIA patches they already loved, opted to stay with 2.80. Unfortunately, this meant those users were missing out on new features and fixes that came with newer updates. We've recognized this as an issue for the community, so a few weeks back we released update 4.20 to help tame resource-hungry modules. This helped with this issue, but for ZOIA Firmware 5 we're going one step further and boosting the ZOIA's processing power by 14%.

We've also heard from time to time that the ZOIA can be a little intimidating. Okay, a lot of times. So Firmware 5 is focused on improving the ease-of-use for those who are new to ZOIA, while still keeping the complexity and customization more experienced users love.

Note: Firmware 5 is not an exclusive update for the ZOIA 10K. Every Empress ZOIA will be able to get the update, as has always been the case.

Here are a few features coming to the ZOIA with Firmware 5:

• Patches organized by type (and effects come first),
• Each patch features a description of the patch on the first display page for easy scrolling,
• The effects patches are a mix of basic guitar effects, Patchstorage favourites, and brand-new effect modules, and
• Cuckoo's stunning Voivoi patch, and the univibe and reverse modules mentioned below.

Enough talking. Download it here!

Win a ZOIA 10k

We have THE 10,000th ZOIA (in its original black enclosure) and we want to make sure that it goes to a very talented artist! If you want to be the one to win, you just have to:

Go to empresseffects.com 
Paint us a pretty pixel picture on our Light Bright (no relation)
Export your art using the 'Export Art' button
Post said art to Instagram
Tag us in the post & use #zoia10k

That's it!

The contest is open from Dec 10 til Dec 17 2024 EST. We will be reviewing all the submissions on Dec 18 and picking our favourite from there!

Head over to their website for more details: https://empresseffects.com/

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