Squid Salmple Arrives

The Squid arrived today. It’s absolutely amazing. First plugged it into Mutable Instruments grids and just fired off some crazy beats using random kits from the stock usb. 

Next routed it through the Noise  Engineering Ruina Versio. Crunchy crazy beats! 

Then routed trigs from my Digitakt through the Expert Sleepers FH1 to clock a 2 step sequencer patched on mutable Stages. Step 1 is 0v and step two is 5v. By feeding the output of this mini patch into the Squid’s record control I was able to precisely control recording length with the Digitakt, great for loops. I recorded a few 4 bar loops (the Squid only has an CX 11 second record time but this still gives you 4 bars @ 100bpm). By triggering the sample with the same trigger used for setting the loop length I got a very nice clean loop! Better to do this looping on tracks 1-5 as the pitch control is very hard to exactly nail on the original setting. 

Lastly I recorded the raw sound from plaits to create additional voices for a poly patch. The Squid’s internal filter is simple to cv control and cloned the voice well. Unfortunately, one of my two filter modules isn’t very good so the overall patch wasn’t very good. Not the squid’s fault, it was outstanding.