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SQUID SALMPLE:

8 Channel Audio & CV Sampler

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The ‘Squid Salmple’ is a Eurorack 8 channel audio & CV sampler. It is designed for immediate real time sampling, editing and mangling within a modular context.

Taking influence from early hardware samplers, The Squid Salmple focuses on usability & instinctive operation, incorporating a proven Pamela’s Workout style user interface for minimal screen dependance & a fun, hands on experience.

With support for sampling and playback for both audio and CV, as well as CV control of all parameters, on-the-fly bank loading & saving to USB, The Squid Salmple brings a unique take on old school sampling into the modular realm.

The Squid Salmple comes with a USB Stick containing approximately 90 banks of original carefully curated royalty free samples. This includes a wide range of sounds from classic drum machines & weird synths to field recordings & CV modulations. Banks are provided by both ALM and some of our favourite artists and friends including Mumdance, Solid Blake, Russell Haswell, Lauren Flax, Dave Burraston (NYZ), Sue Zuki, Dungeon Acid, Sasha Lewis and Andrew Duff.

Feature List

  • 8 independent channels, 4 DC coupled outputs (2 channels per out) and a mix output (ac coupled)
  • 1 mono record input handling both CV and audio input signal from line to modular level.
  • Each channel has approx 11 seconds of 16 bit / 44.1Khz CD quality sample time stored in low latency RAM.
  • Each channel can have various parameters edited all in real time; bit depth, rate, playback speed, pitch , amplitude level with a simple envelope, looping with crossfade, playback direction, start, end and loop ‘cue’ positions, multiple cue groups and more.
  • Each channel features a basic digital multimode filter offering a high, low, notch or bandpass mode with resonance
  • Three CV inputs allow for CV control to be assigned to any & multiple parameters and filters. Channels 6, 7 & 8 have dedicate 1v/oct input for control of pitch (expect crunchy aliasing!).
  • Support for the ‘Axon-1’ & ‘Axon-2‘ expanders to add an additional 4 CV inputs.
  • Sample record and channel destination can be controlled either by automated patching or manually via UI controls.
  • Save and load samples to USB keys as regular Wav format files arranged in quick-to-use banks of 8 (Up to 99 per key).
  • Free desktop software for sample bank creation.
  • Easy firmware update via USB key.
  • Skiff friendly with reverse power protection.
  • Made in England.

Technical Specs

Supply: +12V 300mA Max / -12v 35mA

Size: 21HP

Depth: 38mm

Audio: AKM codecs with 44.1khz / 16 bit quality audio

Latency: 1-2ms trigger response time

Sample Packs

The Squid Salmple ships with a USB Stick containing curated royalty free sample banks from both ALM and various artists.

Alternative sound banks Getaphixx , Calamari & UTTU USB sticks are also exclusively available now via the ALM Webshop.

Free Squid compatible samples and banks are downloadable via squidbanks.com. This includes ‘Calamari’ a full alternate sound library created by various ALM team members from a selection of sources including ALM demo videos.

Squid Bank Maker Software

The Squid Bank Maker is a simple free cross platform desktop application for quick and easy creation of Squid Salmple banks.Simply drag and drop pretty much any audio file into a Squid channel, preview, name and then export as a converted Squid bank folder ready for use on the Squid itself.Squid Bank Maker is available as a free download for both Windows and Mac

Manual

The SQUID SALMPLE PDF Manual is available for download.
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Updates

Firmware (Version 190) is available for download.
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Release Notes
    Released Version 190
  • More fixes for loading very old firmware saved banks.
    • Released Version 189
  • Fix bug loading banks from earlier firmware's getting corrupted
    • Released Version 188
  • New 'Pitch' param for time stretch like effects.
  • Filter performance improvements.
  • Axon stability improvements.
    • Released Version 187
  • Minor Pool browsing improvements.
  • Axon 2 Support
    • Released Version 186
  • Improve USB stick compatabiity
  • Chan input can now be assigned to toggle record monitor
  • Increase number of per directory files to 256
  • Remember last browsing position in pool.
    • Released Version 185
  • Fix issue where stiopping recording during playing can potentially cause audible glitch.
  • Update Manual for new features.
    • Released Version 184-beta
  • Make Step T wrap correctly.
  • Have reverse samples fir E Trigs ok.
  • Fix Axon-1 expander working with cue sets again!
    • Released Version 183-beta
  • Fix cues & steps correct reseting to step (when chan redirected)
  • Have Chan input respont of rising rather than falling edge.
    • Released Version 182-beta
  • Add alternate chan input rerouting; Access config screen via holding Chan+USB+Func. Pause when exiting screen is normal.
  • chan can now choke all, punch markers on record, load next bank, reset cue and trigger steps.
  • Add 'Step T' aka step trigger option to 'Env' menu. Allows for 'round robin' polyphonic triggering across a number of chans.
  • Make pool fienames scroll again. Handle pool load fails better.
  • Fix cue sets display to match what cue is actually playing. Fix issues of cues getting skipped when large number.
    • Released Version 172
  • Fix/correct quanitisation scales.
  • Fix potential lockup when loading too long a sample into channel 8
  • Fix flicker on monitor/record popup.
    • Released Version 167
  • Fix booboo on reintroducing filter lockups.
  • Remove duplicate 12 tone quant option.
  • Minor UI boot tweak.
    • Released Version 165beta
  • Support remapping outputs. +'Quality' will move an output to its neighbour. i.e 1+2<>3+4 & 5+6<>7+8 (eg move 6 to 7+8 output).
  • Increase number of v/oct quantisation scales to mirror Pams.
  • Support loading 24 Bit wavs (downsampled to 16 bit)
  • Fix UI slugginish regression when playing back long samples.
  • Tweaks to UI performance / schueduling in general. Remove scrren uneeded transition anims
  • Fix filters always having a little resonsonce even when se to 0.
  • Update last bank when currnet bank is 'saved as'
  • Fix cue sets menu when a cue set deleted.
  • Clear previous audio data when a load fails or empy bank laoded.
  • Improve some USB sticks occasionally not getting recognised on boot.
  • Add support for CV expander
    • Released Version 148
  • Fix small snafu where filter settings not getting correctly applied to loaded banks and swapped chans.
    • Released Version 147
  • New per channel multimode filter with resonance (Under quality)
  • Added acceleration handling to encoder.
  • Remember last accessed section screens.
  • Better handle triggered Cue Set activation when CV mapped (now immediate).
  • Fix potential lockup when chan 8 is full and bitdepth fully reduced.
    • Released Version 141
  • Various Pool and filehandling tweaks.
  • Improvements to autochopper - attempt to computationally remove any DC offset.
  • Clip LED better catch fast transients.
  • Fix loading of wavs with more than 64 cue markers.
  • Fix preview of playback of pool stereo samples.
    • Released Version 137beta
  • Alphabetically sort Pool filename entries
  • Fix issue with channel name getting updated when chans swapped.
  • Fix tuning fork getting rendered over channel filename
    • Released Version 135beta
  • Add support for 'free' loading of wavs from a 'Pool/' directory within ALM022/ USB directory.
  • Add support for new Bank directory sub directory numbered naming and 'free' sample naming within directorys.
  • Display channel sample filenames (if exists)
  • Fix Bank set menu scrolling
  • Fix broken rendering of loop symbol
    • Released Version 129beta
  • Add support for 'Bank Sets' - multiple sets of Banks on same usb
  • Add attenuversion control to CV inputs.
  • Fix potentially lock up when modulating chan 1 loop/end point.
  • Fix key press handling on special cue set options.
    • Released Version 125
  • Fix Cue split to split to 64 sets (rather than 32)
  • Add option to remove all cue sets. Make add option stay on add selection.
  • Make extend record warn when chan full. Add Enc+Rec to clear.
  • Fix potential crasher on Extend when ram overwritten.
  • Fix extend with short triggers.
  • Fix bank num being show correct in load title bar.
  • Fix sync bank name if set before bank saved.
  • Fix Random cue set selection not selecting all sets.
    • Released Version 121beta
  • Add new recording modes;
    • Released Version +odub
  • Tidy up Cue Sets screen and add new 'Auto' cue creation option.
  • Add new 'E Trig' screen under Env.
  • Fix bug with saved cue sets potentially getting offset when sample cropped.
  • Fix potential lockup up with some operations on full length chan 8.
    • Released Version 111
  • Add a 'step' cue set mode (Jump to next cue set on trigger)
  • Fix a potential lock up when zig zag looping a max len samp on chan 8
    • Released Version 110beta
  • Add support for previewing single samps. Hold Func & Encoder from 'Load 1' screen.
  • Add 'scanning' feature when both start+end assigned to same CV input.
  • Fix/change Decay representation so make more sense with CV control etc. Think of it as amount of 'Decay slope'
  • Fix issue where chan+enc could access quant/speed for non v/oct chans.
  • Improve bank rename UI a little ith 'end option' & proper spaces
  • Func+ENC turn on BPM screen is now more granular for finer control (as well as diplaying BPM if fits bar length)
    • Released Version 108
  • Add 'RANDOM' cue set which jumps to a random cue set when trigger recieved.
  • Add 'gated; loop types which play/sustain 'sample' whilst chan trigger input high (and go to decay stage on low if set)
  • Add BPM display when Func button held on speed parameter (assumes sample is 1 bar long and BPM must be < 300)
  • Fix marker->cue set conversion where initial marker would get ignored unless at sample beginning.
  • Fix Chan+Func hold jumping back to chan screen as if just chan pressed.
  • Fix saving a single channel into a different destination (previously dest ignored)
  • Fix Decay/Attack incorrectly fully opening with 0v CV.
  • Fix any existing cue set data geting properly cleared when a new sample is made.
  • Fix load/save screens popping up again if click recieved whilst load/save progress.
    • Released Version 100
  • Properly clamp Level param so doesn't wrap.
  • Fix speed/pitch getting messed up with V/Oct chans are swapped.
    • Released Version 99
  • Add record channel lock feature (press Chan + Rec) to lock sample recording to current channel.
  • Throttle record/monitor repaints a little to keep squid more repsonsive.
    • Released Version 97
  • Add compat code so pre v88 wav meta data (i.e 32 cue sets) is handled ok.
    • Released Version 90
  • Tidy up Env & Qauntity params so sane directions and dont all roll over.
  • Fix sill bug where 'quant' option only worked for channel 6 (and then applied to 7 & 8 too).
    • Released Version 88
  • Add Attack parameter.
  • Make CV assignments cummalative when applied to same param.
  • Increase number of Cue Sets to 64. Also inc wav meta data version because of this (old emta thus ignored).
  • Trim a bad cue point rather than abort entire load.
    • Released Version 81
  • Fix to better recognise some usb keys at startup (will work if re-inserted)
    • Released Version 80
  • Fix a few minor cue set bugs.
  • Fix meta data getting wiped on single sample load
  • Fix envolope follower actually stopping when recording started via trigger.
  • Improve USB key support.
  • Add Solo/improved mute behaviour
    • Released Version 71
  • Initial firmware release

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