Intent
I bought an Empress Zoia off eBay ages ago, intending to use it with my Theremin. Well, since then I've sold my Moog Theremini (though I still have an openTheremin which honestly I liked better anyway) but I kept the Zoia because a) I never had anything with my name on it when I was a kid, and b) my dear metamour has the Eurorack version and it'd be cool if we could jam together.
But my god, is the thing overwhelming to me. There's so much to learn to be able to actually build your own patches, and I feel it really is necessary to build your own if you're going to use it with a Theremin, since the instrument doesn't have a proper onset or envelope (or rather, you are the envelope!).
So, my Week of Patching project is to learn the Zoia from scratch. I'll follow a series of tutorials, and try to make one new thing every day and post it here. Maybe by the end of the week I'll be ready to try to get the openTheremin working with it, though that's an extra layer of complication that might make everything so much worse.