https://busycircuits.com/coupe/
Sweet system!
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This looks great, I only have PNW in my system but I love the look and features of their other modules, they seem to offer some unique and fun stuff.
Im torn between the squid sampler and the assimil8tor, as a potential main sampler in my rack. I currently have an er301 which does sampling and many other things, but Iād love one thatās more dedicated just to being a sampler and freeing my er301 to do live recording/granular/looping of my entire rack. My rack is pretty much half gear to sampling and sample based voices along with analog fm and synth voices.
The squid is like half the price, and would be more than enough but the assimil8tor looks unrealā¦
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Iāve seen all squid vids and I like it a lot, many features and easy enough to get a lot out of it in my limited music time; An important balance for me.
update : assimil8tor seems great machine though, nooooo 
Looks really nice, I was quite interested in the Squid Sample before, but in the end I went for a Rytm MKII which for me does what I need. Nice to see a curated system like this from ALM though, I think they will sell well.
Very nice. I love complete systems.
Looks great, lots of great modules, carefully thought out I/O. I dig it. If I ever were to dive back into Euro-world, Iād do it with a curated system like this one. Hope it sells well for them.
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Iāve starting thinking about this system a bunch for some reason, kind of wish it had their new fx unit and jumble henge in it but I suppose you could swap out a few things for those. Would be selling my A4 and Pro2 if I went for it.
How do people feel about Salmple in a longer set type setting? Does it load stuff up easy enough that you could do a live set without much downtime? Probably would be doing a fair amount of sequencing into it from the M8.
Check this video which shows the Squid loading a new bank via the Channel input.
There is a āloadā but I think it can be designed around. I wonder if it loads channels sequentially?ā¦ If so you could make sure new tracks donāt initially use channels 6, 7, 8.
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I love ALM stuff, just picked up a squid. The squid is super intuitive, very shallow menu.
You can load banks without stopping playback and also use āCue Setsā have multiple saved areas of playback for a single sample that you can rotate between. I donāt intend to use mine live really, but I think theyd be super handy features to have if I did.
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That good to hear, not sure if I would take it out live but I generally like to compose in a sort of live style, so cue type features would likely be in my workflow in longer songs that have more of a journey to them.
Yeah cool, weāll itās very immediate. Menus are only one layer deep. A handful of key combos to remember but nothing too shocking.
Iāve mostly been using mine to sample snippets of field recordings off my phone and process in my modular. Very easy to record on the fly etc, just what I wanted. I trigger it with mmMidi and Pams and everything ends up getting summed through the JH and itās a great little ALM centric environment.
Mine came in the mail today, mostly just spent time learning pamelas workout so I have yet to dive into the salmple much yet. Sadly I think my Quaid Megaslope is faulty, the 4th slider LED never lights up. Hopefully I donāt need to ship out the full system and just the module to get replaced. 
Part of me was actually thinking of fully dropping the megaslope for the MFX unit and some other utility but I want to spend some time with it as designed, megaslope does seem like a fun way to play with a filter for sure. I havenāt actually touched the midi yet but I plan on mostly driving the system that way.
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Well I ended up having to do a full system swap more locally other option was ship out the Quaid over seas for repairsā¦ either way I got it back in my hands today and spent a good deal of today fully routing midi CV and running it with the M8. Really awesome system, I am trying to force myself from swapping anything out of it for now but my immediate feeling is Quaid megaslope will be swapped out for 2x Pip slopes, the expander for Squid CV, an MFX and the 2band EQ alm makes. Then maybe quaid will go into a smaller control based satelite system at some point. It is a really cool system as it but my initial thoughts are if you are talking full advantage of midi and a bit of Pamās there isnāt really a ton left for Quaid to do. Without midi the Quaid kind of seems like a must. I suppose that is part of a preset system like this is they want to keep it open for many types of play.
Squid salmple related note I spent a long time trying to dial in LFO style granular timestrech but could really get it to feel right then I switched to the slice based method and it pretty much instantly letās you start getting funky with drum breaks.
Hi, System Coupe owners: how capable is this system of making more generative melodic stuff? Or is it primarily a modular drummachine/groovebox?
Wouldnāt be my first choice for the money, but the Pam Pro will be a definite improvement in terms of generative melodics.
Thx. I understood from ALM that itās not sure that the pro Pam will be in the System Coupe anytime soon. Due to supply chain problems with the Salmple Squid the System Coupe will be in short supply till end of next year.
I have been searching for a complete, pre-configured modular system for years, as I do not want to start out on my own. But the choices are fairly limited, when it comes to systems that are a bit more adventurous. Look at the Shuttle, but was not really my thing, I guess.
I think it is pretty capable, the coupe pams new workout in it does have a better screen than the normal pams new workout, but yeah it is kind of hard to visualize what is happening in the Euclidian sequencer. Pro workout seems to add some cool stuff but the old one is still insanely powerful. If I were to just use the coupe for something generative I would likely be sending megaslope into pams and then processing its cv in various different ways and then send that out to squid and mco. Squid itself has envelopes, quantizers, filters, slices and then ability to sequence sampling and reference that sampling on another channel live for sort of cascading processing.
I mostly just use mine like a groovebox of sorts via midi and use the pams as a bunch of different preset modulation sources.
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I was watching this again and it made me realize how I was massively under utilizing the MCO, the self patching stuff can be very glitchy and wildā¦ the whole video is worth a watch if you are still considering the coupe as as simple as the MCO looks it has a ton of tricks up its sleeves.
Cheers. I am still enormously on the fence, but I am a bit tired of my routines with synths and Elektron boxes. Probably going to sell some stuff.
Will watch this one!