Overview
ZenEdit at its heart is a SysEx editor. What that means is ZenEdit cannot directly edit your Zendrum in real-time. It instead edits your Zendrum's SysEx image locally on your computer which you then upload to the Zendrum. What is SysEx? SysEx is basically the internal memory image of your Zendrum. It can be thought of as a file which contains all the instrument's settings.
From a high level, your basic work flow when using ZenEdit is as follows:
1. Make your edits and save your project.
2. Transmit the modified SysEx to your Zendrum.
Your first step to exploring ZenEdit should be to create a new project file.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Your Zendrum can edit its memory image too but in a much cruder fashion. For instance if you change the noise floor on your Zendrum it changes the value for all triggers at once whereas ZenEdit allows much more fine grained control of edits.
As a general rule, you should make all your edits in ZenEdit and then push them to the Zendrum. You should avoid making edits directly on the Zendrum as that will undo and reset any fine tuning you did within ZenEdit.