 Hello OscillatorSync here. Recently I posted a reverb shootout video between this zoom multi-stomp MS-70 CD-R and the DGTEC Polara. The conclusion of which was basically that if you wanted the better reverb then the Polara wins But that's kind of not the whole story and I didn't want to leave that Video with the impression that I think that the zoom is a bad pedal to the contrary I think it's a really Exciting pedal. In fact, I think it's one of the easiest pedals to recommend to a synthesis that's out there really and part of the Reason for that is that it is a multi-effects pedal in the true sense of the term in that you can run multiple different effects All at once. So I got to thinking how can I show off the Multi-effectness of the zoom, you know an obvious one would be to make a big ambient washi Patch and I might still do that because that sounds like fun But earlier this evening I asked myself the question Given only the very most basic starting point Could you use the zoom to make the rest of a synth? So I plugged in my monologue my beloved monologue and I set my oscillator to a sawtooth wave Gave it a bit of release on the envelope and that's all I've done One VCO the filter is wide open despite the not position. It's Wide open the resonance is down at zero VCO to is turned off All we have here is a sawtooth wave with a bit of release So I got to playing and it was really good fun And so I thought I would share with you the Patch on the zoom as it were that I came up with So the first thing I wanted to do on the zoom was to approximate the idea that at the moment I only have one VCO We always like it on our sense when we bring in the second VCO. It's slightly detuned and everything sounds ace So I switched over to a detune algorithm on the zoom Turning that on I Haven't gone over the top that second oscillator detuned oscillators sort of only slightly mixed in But more and if we like tuned 11 cents away we could be More wobbly but quite like 11 there so again without And with Which is a nice start so the next thing I wanted to do was add a sub oscillator so Next fact that I added in was this base pitch Algorithm allows you to shift the pitch in semi tones rather than in sense As a tone control we can then balance this kind of the mix if you like And you also have a fine control so you can even detune this one off a little bit so without And we add in there's our sub oscillator Very nice so Actually coming across this effect towards the end of the patch So I actually had it later on and I started to look for modulation effects I was thinking maybe I could put a chorus at the end or something like that and I came across this one Which is called Modo Roller, which I think I've used before This is really cool. I suspect it sounds great on guitar as well But basically what this effect does is it allows you to set up a vibrato that fades in I think the boss VB VB2 can do this trick Or at least you can you can turn it on in a way that fades in so what this means is Slices without we turn it on And when I first hit the key or here that it's sort of still fairly Consistent, but after a while you'll get this vibrato happening It's not neat so it's kind of like having a pitch LFO with a LFO delay on it so again without And with nice so we've got The three ish Oscillators pretending now and we've also got some pitch LFO in there So the next thing is obviously we need to run it into a filter There's a bunch of different filter algorithms in the zoom. I've ended up using this Zedron one, which is based on an envelope following filter, so it's not a Hasn't got an ADSI. It's just going to follow the envelope of the Note, but it does have kind of like a slow ramp up. So without And with So this has got controls for for resonance sense, which is how How much is going to react to the inputs volume and then just a level control there afterwards And I love the way that this has changed the the overall character the sound so much This is the other reason I guess I'm cheating slightly by having that release on the note because now I have a filter slope down as it follows that volume envelope Very cool So that was kind of my synth voice and there's DSP spare So that's what for effects in now and I still got DSP spare to add other ones. So I thought well You got to add a delay, right? So this is the analog delay model It has all of the stuff you'd expect time which you delay time feedback mix It's got a high dampening so you can roll off the top end and roll it off quite a lot and it's got mono or ping-pong mode I've got it set to ping-pong so that we can get some stereo width now. So without And with Nice sounding delay, we didn't talk about the fact that yeah, the Reverse wind up as good as a Polaro, but it's got some really nice sounding delays on it In fact, I think the delays in general might be better than the reverbs So I do a demo of those another time So we've got five effects in now There's still DSP to spare so we can put a sixth effect in as well and I've popped the plate reverb in I did play with one of the weirder reverb as well mangled space Which also sounds pretty cool. I might switch that in a second just to show off again So we've got this sound without let's try a lot And add some plate Actually just just write the second I'm thinking to myself. Shall I have the D the delay after the plate maybe so can't That the delays of the echoes have got slightly sort of indistinct Really easy to do this on the zoom if we go into this menu here and we go down to effect chain We can move this little picker here. We'll pick up plate and what pop it Before the analog delay and now they are the other way around Simple as that. So here we go other way around I could I could go either way Cool, let's let's just try that mangled verb as well. It's up here somewhere See these ones here are saying through that's because we've run out of DSP for those ones think Mangled to me. I'd added the dive bar. So we're out of DSP for that one now We could delete one of the other effects or try space horn stets in as we can As fun as that is let's go back to our plate because that was a nicer sound I think Whoa, yes, I think the pitch tracking brings out right at the top sound just about hanging on Sound to get weird into my relation Yeah The pitch tracking has given up on that D there Yes down at the bottom or refurb More delay So That's the patch that I built up. Let's take those off one by one just so you can hear what the source material was again. So Say goodbye to the delay Say goodbye to the plate Read this and drop off doesn't it? Say goodbye to our filter say goodbye to our vibrato say goodbye to our sub oscillator And finally say goodbye to our second oscillator I Think given that that is our source material what the zoom has achieved there is nothing short of Miraculous and again, if you haven't done already go and look at the price of this thing Yes absolute insane value So anyway, I hope you enjoyed that if you did then please do hit the old thumb for the like and make sure you subscribe to the Channel got lots of cool synthy stuff coming up Hopefully having a couple of new additions to the synth family in the not too distant future Not gonna say which since they are but keep an eye on the channel I'm very excited to get my hands on these new synths And otherwise, thank you so much for joining me as always Take care and bye. Bye. See you