Zoia came last week, and it's..a lot easier than i thought! Well, I just made some really easy patches, nothing fancy, a couple chain of effects, a simple FM synth with on-board keyboard, and a basic sequencer, but the interface is not that difficult once you have understood the logic behind it.Tutorials have been hugely helpful, thanks for the headsup HAK.
Right now the only thing that bugs me is the fact that you just have one knob to navigate through the menus etc, but it's not that terrible.
Never played a Strymon Volante but I found a patch that replicates it (already installed on the unit by the previous owner) and lost a good 20 minutes just noodling with the guitar while turning the tap buttons on and off. In general, sound-wise Zoia seems to be very good, not that I have hi-fi needs whatsoever.
I investigated some other patches already on the pedal to see how to obtain some results but it seems to me that it's actually easier to build them from scratch than to modify existing ones, at least for the 3 or 4 patches I tried to modify.
I still have to check the patch library, i'm looking forward to doing it over the coming weeks, but right now I prefer to get to know the pedal a bit more with some experiments.