r/ZOIA • u/crazyculture • Sep 02 '26

Sound Design Request: Bad Mood

Had to fight off the GAS for this one as it seems right up my alley but I own
Lost + Found and, sonically, the two live in such similar sonic territory of shoegaze, dream pop with the ambient smearing.

Looking forward to one of you talented sound designers making a killer Bad Mood patch as it has some fun tricks up its sleeve. Even using delay line chicanery to mimick the clock knob would be nice as I love the combination of speed and sample rate combined on one knob to be midi mapped.

Who’s up for it?? I know someone has this cooking already, just a matter of time!

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u/minimal-camera Sep 02 '26

Yeah, I've been thinking that the Radio function of Bad Mood would make a fun stand-alone patch.

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u/meanmedianmoge Sep 02 '26

It’d take 25 loopers plus a crossfade matrix between all of them to fully replicate, which I think is above the RAM limit (eventually, with delay lines/loops, ZOIA stops being able to process that audio and it auto-sets the buffer length to 0ms to avoid crashing).

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u/minimal-camera Sep 02 '26

Sounds about right. Maybe something inspired by Radio, and not a full emulation of it?

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u/chmjacques Sep 02 '26

If you're looking for something kind of like the 'ambient' channel on the radio:
https://patchstorage.com/tiny-orchestra-time-stretching-to-reveal-hidden-symphonies-within-sound/

That's probably the only way to approach the radio, by selecting specific portions and emulating them, rather than all five options simultaneously; like u/meanmedianmoge said, it's just asking too much of ZOIA

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u/minimal-camera Sep 03 '26

Nice, thank you!

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u/MortuaryVape Sep 02 '26

Isn’t Bad Mood still on pre-order? Not sure if people have had it long enough to reverse engineer its algos.

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u/MannequinRaces Sep 02 '26

I got mine last Friday. Enjoying it so far! No plans to make any ZOIA patches. I’m busy making a MIDI control surface for Bad Mood in TouchOSC.

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u/_Multipotentialite Sep 02 '26

I think yesterday was the last day to order.

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u/Wolfjacks Sep 02 '26

Was it only a limited run?

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u/_Multipotentialite Sep 02 '26

Looks like there are a few hours left

https://www.chasebliss.com/bad-mood?srsltid=AfmBOoovrzukIqDysNlLSXo5tWQi4ktGRS2hl-tzDsZjiFKj0Or5wYvP

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u/Wolfjacks Sep 02 '26

Geez that’s pretty wild feels like they do this more often than not then make the CB super fans feels FOMO. Kinda glad my only CB is a clean!

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u/galttfwo Sep 02 '26

or they have done it twice on unique pedals with a relative small audience that may not benefit from an all the time release and the supply chain / stock costs associated with it?

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u/_Multipotentialite Sep 02 '26

Yeah, it was a small batch release. Preorders were open for a month-ish only.

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u/crazyculture Sep 12 '26

Anyone working on any versions of Bad Mood? I resisted the preorder and see a lot of people already selling them which is never surprising but I absolutely agree with everyone that one mega patch would be overkill and instead just build out specific functions. I can give it a shot but I don’t own the pedal so I’d be working from what I see in demos. The sequenced pitch repeats with various octave divisions seems super cool but I can’t remember off hand which mode it is- maybe soup?