Toraiz Squid Workflow & Usage Discussion

[tenembre]

That note earlier about the cc knobs not recording - that seems like an omission, but in general - how strong are the modulations, how easy to use them in practice, and to have fun with this thing. I like sequencers where you can evolve patterns through internal and external modulation. The pyramid doesn't have some of the classic modulations, but those midi fx are great, and the recording of everything is great. etc.

The Squid works best if you approach it like an analog sequencer, i.e. get a pattern going and then explore various ways to modify it. A lot of the modulation is aimed at groove and tempo, which is unusual. How strong the modulation feature set is depends on what you like and if the provided tools are useful to you, but these can be played and modified without disrupting the flow. It's fun as hell to mess around with.

[DiscoDevil]

but in general - how strong are the modulations, how easy to use them in practice, and to have fun with this thing. I like sequencers where you can evolve patterns through internal and external modulation. The pyramid doesn't have some of the classic modulations, but those midi fx are great, and the recording of everything is great. etc.

Honestly, it's a great pattern generator but some of the modulations are gimmicky and not particularly useful but cool here and there. The front panel real estate could have offered a lot more like bigger pads, a larger screen, x0x step buttons like the SP-16, etc and done without the whole speed and groove section or at least made those controls assignable to whatever you want. You can't externally modulate anything in the SQUID because the only data it responds to is clock, note on/off and velocity. The other data is passed thru but ignored. No CC control over parameters or recording incoming CCs for external gear, no remote program changes, etc.

[damase]

sequencer looks fun, been trying to find out though...
my concern though is the ability to have space in a pattern.
i like a nice simple pattern (using the groovy things squid can offer) but to repeat it only once every 256 steps or 512 ect...

i see the count feature, seems like it might help a little to add this on unpopulated steps. track resolution effectively forces your notes into a longer quantization im assuming but can be used to some extent with the arp and ratchet

is there anything im missing here? no pattern chaining?
just seems very limited if you like space in your sequence. for that matter it also seems difficult to have just a longer melodic pattern also

[dubonaire]

sequencer looks fun, been trying to find out though...
my concern though is the ability to have space in a pattern.
i like a nice simple pattern (using the groovy things squid can offer) but to repeat it only once every 256 steps or 512 ect...

i see the count feature, seems like it might help a little to add this on unpopulated steps. track resolution effectively forces your notes into a longer quantization im assuming but can be used to some extent with the arp and ratchet

is there anything im missing here? no pattern chaining?
just seems very limited if you like space in your sequence. for that matter it also seems difficult to have just a longer melodic pattern also

There is no pattern chaining, only 16 pattern sets.

[DiscoDevil]

So yeah... this thing has been out for 6 months now and is still lacking so much basic functionality, it's like Toraiz is trolling their customer base at this point.

[RhythmDroid]

Forgive me if this has been brought up yet, but has anybody mentioned the trick of slowing down a sequencer track to 1/2 speed, then setting up quantization to 32nd notes in order to get a sort of usable 8-bar pattern? Early tests seem to be promising!

[boxxgrooved]

I have been watching Pioneer stuff for a while because some of it interests me. One thing I cannot get over is that you cannot sync any music gear to Pioneer's Dj software Rekordbox using midi clock.

Given that you can simply grab any size of loop (from 16ths to as many bars as you like) and have them seamlessly playback in sync and lined up with the current beat makes for a production weapon with enormous potential when combined with drum machines and synths.

You can even retune the loops without changing their tempo in Rekordbox and make a sequence of loops, but alas no midi clock sync whatsoever. I imagine this is intentional so that their software doesnt compete with their SP-16 as a remix sampler. Other DJ software like NI's Traktor has midi clock sync.

[RhythmDroid]

So yeah... this thing has been out for 6 months now and is still lacking so much basic functionality, it's like Toraiz is trolling their customer base at this point.

I'm informed that they are currently working on the next firmware update.

[DiscoDevil]

So yeah... this thing has been out for 6 months now and is still lacking so much basic functionality, it's like Toraiz is trolling their customer base at this point.

I'm informed that they are currently working on the next firmware update.

Yes, this is what I've been told as well. Mine has been sitting unused now since July. At this point I guess I have stopped caring.

[Funky40]

So yeah... this thing has been out for 6 months now and is still lacking so much basic functionality, it's like Toraiz is trolling their customer base at this point.

has there been any changes ? whats the status ?
what are you Folks opinions today ?


i think i want to have a "jamm-sequenzer" for my modular ( not necessarily needing the CV outs here)
and i thought "now" the squid could be it.


but if it feels like a "baustelle" ? ( work in progress)